Some songs are deeply personal and yet address experiences we all go through, creating an environment for the listener to experience their own feelings intensely. Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” is one of these. It is a song about a person involved in a moment in time where she becomes aware that someone else is breaking up with her, apparently brought on by a decision from the other person.

We start in Imogen’s head asking “Where are we?”, as if waking from a dream, hearing her voice in a mixed with a vocoder, with thoughts of disorientation and the key line “sinking feeling”. Whether we heard all of the words or not, if we heard that phrase, it is something we can all identify with.

Her incredible sense of description, blending metaphors of movement with a sense of awareness that something completely personal is happening within a larger world ...

I wanted to begin sharing some of my perceptions about music that I have been listening to recently that has been particularly inspiring to me.

One track that never fails to compel me is Chab's "Closer To Me (Alex Neri Vocal Mix)". Note the vocals are by JD Davis, not Alex Neri. The track's slow build and highly syncopated rhythmic intro gives the listener so many choices in the dance moves they might choose to act upon, a choice I feel is basic to a good dance track. There is a sense of mechanism and power that emerges with the arpeggiated synth that cuts through at about 1 1/2 minutes and carries the entire song with its melodic line. The line itself is the hook of the song, thr ...

We've decided to wait on the release of our next project "Don't Stop" in order to find a record company to work with who can help us with the marketing and promotion of our work.

"Don't Stop" is a great song and we really want it to reach a much broader audience than our previous singles so have taken the decision to wait on the release.

It has been really amazing to do all of this ourselves for the past four years, but the time has come to take things to a new level. Charlie has some great video ideas, and if we are going to shoot a video, I want to know with certainty that it will be seen. Sometimes you have to hold off in life for the things you want for them to come to you. This is one of those times.

I have wanted to write a blog entry for several months now, but each time I move toward actually doing it, this voice inside of me holds me back. I guess I am not really a very good blogger as I don’t have a particularly strong desire to share a lot of information with people. I read many other people’s blogs and find it so interesting that many people want to share so much, so often. I suppose I am focused more in other areas.  

This year has been a particularly powerful year in terms of achievement and challenges for me personally. I have been very hesitant to break the veil that I am so comfortable with, projecting my eternal optimism into the world. While much of the lyrical content I produce has to do with themes of personal empowerment and a positive attitude, this past year I have experienced much less of the experience that I write about than I care to admit.  

I often remark to my musical part ...

Charlie and I were speaking earlier today about the success To Call My Own is enjoying on the public arena and what we realized in our discussion is that like any child, there comes a time to let go and allow the child to be in the world, making its own way. To Call My Own has reached that stage for us.

After so many months of work, producing our remixes, working in new ways with other producers and remixers, shooting and editing our own video and launching this, our third independent single, we are so incredibly proud to have acheived the exposure that has been given to us. When we look at our colleagues on the chart Depec ...

Today happens to be my birthday and I am having a really relaxing and enjoyable day. Earlier this week Charlie and I spoke about what we would like to have happen in this last week running up to the release of To Call My Own. We agreed it would be a solid sign that the song was doing well if we were on the Billboard chart before release date. When we spoke about how we should go about making this happen, we decided we would simply ask the universe to take care of it.

Asking the universe to take care of something on your behalf is a bit strange if you are not used to it. I found myself getting nervous and a bit scared yesterday about the future success of this single but then I realized that I was not trusting or putting faith into my desires. I did the work of focusing on how proud I would be when I could tell my Mother that we were on the chart and shifted my emotions about this.

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