you gotta see this

performing in oakland tonight!

November 23, 2009 at 12:20 pm (friends' music, gigs, inspiration, making fun of ourselves, you gotta see this) (a.j. kirsch, aj kirsch, amy van vechten, karaoke contest, kimble's carnival, michael jackson, oakland, the way you make me feel, travis beauchamp)

our friend, aj kirsch (who’s also a professional wrestler… that thar is a link to his facebook fan page), will be kicking ass tonight in oakland for a national karaoke contest semi-final round!

after winning 1st place in san francisco’s regional rock division karaoke contest, he’s singing “the way you make me feel” by michael jackson tonight for a battle to the LAS VEGAS finals.

stakes are high. he invited me along to do some back up dancing and acting. remember the girl from the video?

i’ve packed a short black dress and heels, and i’m ready to rock.

in other performance news, i have an audition on sunday for which i’m regularly rehearsing. it’s an exciting week!

xo
–aimes

PS stay tuned for a variety of videos and audio files from our jams with VEX over the weekend! we did quite a few funny rando tunes…

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while we’re on the topic of sounds i love…

November 18, 2009 at 10:52 am (inspiration, links, you gotta see this) (acoustic, amy van vechten, david ryan norgren, demilo, funk, gabriella, inspiration, jason mraz, jazz, rock, spent, thebanddemilo, travis beauchamp, weight on your shoulders)

check out this guy, david ryan norgren.

his music is all kinds of inspiring to me. he’s got the jason mraz verb with the word and rhythm to the beat with some funked up tunes and groovy acoustic instrumentation. if i could choose a sound to make, this would be it.

mostly, “weight on your shoulders,” “spent” and DEFINITELY “gabriella” are on my to-do list of songs to write.

LOVE LOVE LOVE.

love,
.demilo.

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lady danville love

November 18, 2009 at 10:39 am (friends' music, inspiration, links, you gotta see this) (amy van vechten, dan chang, demilo, friends' music, lady danville, matty frankel, mike garner, the band demilo, thebanddemilo, travis beauchamp, ucla bruins)

our friends at lady danville have a new blog and a sweet new myspace design!

check them out!

i love the drive thru post and the song monet (embedded in the blog)…

go bruins!

xoxo
–aimes

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my home has no door

November 10, 2009 at 11:20 am (links, mp3, you gotta see this) (amy van vechten, camille dalmais, chanson, demilo, french, hole, home is where it hurts, le fil, musique, ta douleur, thebanddemilo)

since her album “le fil” dropped in 2005, i’ve been a huge camille fan. she uses drones, capitalizes on a cappella arrangements and chooses killer beats. camille

check out this song “home is where it hurts,” from her new album.

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this is pretty weird

November 6, 2009 at 1:27 pm (videos, you gotta see this) (Alexi Kaye, breath control, Deborah Szapiro, Emma Deans, Sally Stevens, technique, vocal chords, vocalize)

a video of vocal chords during singing.

i’m trying to focus on singing with more breath control (ie less breath escaping) while singing, and this fascinates me (altho it’s a little gross)

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older than him (the slut song) – by kathi kamen goldmark and kathleen enright

November 3, 2009 at 2:37 pm (gigs, videos, you gotta see this) (amy ingersoll beauchamp, bluegrass, blues, country, cowboy song, dave barry, funny, harmonica, kathi kamen goldmark, kathleen enright, rhythm, sam barry, solo, travis beauchamp)

at travis’ mom’s amy’s birthday party (wow, that’s a lot of posessives) last weekend, there was a lot of musical fun!

having rented a karaoke machine, we all got our sing on. the best karaoke hit was the full beatles hits album, which we sang from front to back without stopping.

one of the best musical moments of the evening, though, was this performance by kathi (original song!) and sam barry (fabulous harmonica!). travis accompanies on guitar.