Saturday, April 12, 2008
Fun Times Ahead At Radio !
We have two special radio dates coming up we wanted to let you in on.
First Nightime Superstars will be featuring Miss Kristin music this Monday night April 14th in the UK at 10:45 PM UK time. That is 2:45 PM in the US. The name of the station is Radio Cabin - Tune in for "Always Been Poor" !
Also, April 29th at 10:00 AM, Miss Kristin with Tom Landry will be at the KFOG San Fransisco studio’s for a local music program.
Please be listening on this date and call in with Love for the fun and excellent new track; "Always Been Poor" .
Stay well and sweet! Summer will be here before we know it!
See you out there!
Miss Kristin
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sunday Morning Come Again
My favorite time of day is by far the morning. I've always been one to wake up relatively happy. A few of the highlights of my mornings are to enjoy the aromatic coffee brewing, and to read my morning news and email while drinking the daily blend. I love the quiet before the phone begins it's ringing and the list of things to do flashes brighter and brighter through my head space.
Today being Sunday I tend to relax more.
Sunday's are special because I, like you I am sure, am pretty driven to work hard most of the week. By the time Sunday comes, I relish in the relaxation of doing little. For today, I shall prepare to go downtown San Jose to CHAM Community Homeless Alliance Ministry where I like to show up and visit my friends who come out to worship and fellowship. It's a wild time in the Lord. Pastor Scott Wagers is like a Rock Star for church.
He enters the sanctuary in his shades and has this Elvis persona, this coolness thing about himself. This church is definitely a street ministry, where most attendees have one time or another looked a little tore up from the floor up! But it is this character that I love about it. It always reminds me to stay humble and and to remember; the least of these....
Today, I have new friends joining me at CHAM. So it should be fun.
I have been sitting out from singing lately as I have needed time to re-group after working hard to release "The Runner".
When I return home, my hope is I will have the quiet time to prepare a few new tracks for the next album we are already working on titled, "Free".
(More about "Free" soon.) Stay tuned :-)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Miss Kristin Assists In Instigating Change With Heart Healthy Music
Eckhart Tolle with his bestselling new book, "A New Earth" (Oprahs book of the month club), is not alone in instigating change and "Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" through media. Big Fuss Records, Miss Kristin has proudly released a brave new heart healthy collection via Itunes available now with awakening the soul in mind through music and song.
Anyone who has had the inspiring opportunity to read Eckhart Tolles bestselling new book, "A New Earth" ("Awakening to Your Life's Purpose") will enjoy and benefit from Miss Kristin's new music release, "The Runner" available now on Itunes .
With awakening and exposing the dysfunction of the ego in mind, Miss Kristin sings and rocks her way through startling conversion. Composing with a deliberate desire to be healed herself, to be transformed, awakened Miss Kristin wades through the muck and mire of her realizing ego to finally reach the clear water of restoration, freedom and life.
"The Runner was not an easy new music collection to record and create" states,
Miss Kristin, who often times had difficulty getting up off the floor to sing a part and complete the project. "It was all I could do to write the words let alone sing them". But Kristin prevailed on purpose for what she calls, "the greater cause". The Runner is a journey in facing ourselves head on. We are all runners in one way or another, and Miss Kristin has written a universal new music collection with the intention others can relate to and find comfort in the fact they are not alone, but a part of something larger and greater then themselves.
With songs like "The Lost Years", "Torch Song" "The Runner" and "Many Ways To Die", this new music release, Kristin's seventh record now on the Big Fuss label, should not be missed. Miss Kristin joins forces with Mr. Tom Landry again on guitars and creates a new sound - A force to be reckoned with.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The New Album; THE RUNNER Expose~
"THE RUNNER" is shaping up to be what it is...
A dark and beautiful, lovely creation meant to heal me personally.
Some time back, I turned a corner in looking at my life and where I had been with the deception and unbelief in and all around me.
I chose to expose it in hopes of transformation. (myself and others)
I knew I could not possibly be the only one in the world feeling this way/having this hurt and awakening, so I chose to do the brave thing and sing about it.
Singing this music was never easy;
My heart ached beautifully.
So this collection is a bit of a purge so to speak.
I'm glad it has come to fruition and is finally heading out into the universe.
I am letting go of it now...I have no expectations, only new resolve for a bright future.
And for your information: This music was recorded in my personal "2High 2Die Recording studio with myself and Tom Landry doing most all the work.
We did go into Soundtek Studios in Campbell to record drums with Craig Martin and Robert Holmes on the kit. We had Norman Gonzalez on bass with Tom on "FLIM FLAM MAN" and Erick Thorton on Harmonica on "ALWAYS BEEN POOR".
All other work was myself, Miss Kristin and Tom Landry.
I am a writer first, then a vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist so it's nice to be able to get so much tracking done on my own.
Tom is an exceptional multi-instrumentalist. (too many instruments to list here)
These mixes you are hearing are my pre - mixes with mastering by myself as well .
I have been studying mixing and mastering and doing my own work for my previous four albums.
I do have an experienced team of talent at my right hand for advising and it's been a wonderful learning journey with seven albums to date.
My mantra is; do the best you can with what you've got.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Miss Kristin Commentary on Album Art
but the album cover art must stand out as well.
In today’s modern times with video on demand and CD’s lining the shelves with artist faces, each new album cover seems a new fangled attempt to strike a more striking pose than the one before. One collection after another, like cookie cutters to win the attention of fearless fans willing to shell out 15.00 bucks for what we still like to call great art.
Somehow, these plastic or paper cd covers with all the special liner notes and thank you’s, are not the collectors item or necessity they once were.
Several of my favorite records when I was a wee child growing up were the Yes albums. I loved the Roger Dean art style and the unique progressive music of this band. Each album had a vision of greatness with a graphic / cover art picture painted that wowed and stated “We’ve Arrived!” These records were different and a must have even before listening. I would look forward to and waited for each release to see what this great band would deliver. The art alone made this record a treasure itself. The Yes albums were a collector’s series. Not just one album release but consecutive releases featuring the artistry of Roger Dean.
I loved holding these records and showing them off to my friends.
Somehow the package with the music enclosed touched my heart deeply.
These records became keepsakes of my moderate collection.
Being Miss Kristin, I am often asked why not put my face or a photo of myself on the cover of my collections? Industry executives seem to think I need a photo like many other mainstream artists. It’s not that I would not, but more that I prefer and love the Naïve art of my associate and dear friend Dizz Daniel. Naïve art is characterized by a childlike simplicity. Grandma Moses etc… Having the art of Dizz Daniel on a series of my recordings speaks louder to me and makes the music and the disc itself a unique treasure, a true collector’s item. A “must have” so to speak.
In these times of disposable cd’s and digital downloads, resembling an assembly line of contemporary characters vying for a moments top spot; here today, gone tomorrow, it is with great care that I choose to develop something unique. Yes, it’s been done before, but my hope and belief is that years from now, in time, my humble and lovely extraordinary music catalog and collection will become a necessary classic rock collection, a treasure for one and all.
Miss Kristin is readying her seventh disc titled “The Runner” due out March 2008.
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