The Observatory

powered by ODEO Having a cough for 3 weeks actually has one advantage – I can record my own renditions of songs with husky vocals! Since the John Legend song ‘Ordinary People’ is beautiful AND within my Alto vocal range, I decided to record my own version of it. The piano you hear is actually…

Just had a smashing good time at Jazz at South Bridge Road. Surprise surprise, Anne Weerapas was singing. I was telling my friends that she had a CD and Lush 99.5FM was playing her music as well as other local jazz singers’. Just then, she announced her CD was on sale at the club, and…

It was my school concert today. It was an exhilarating experience and I wouldn’t mind performing again! Here is what happened in chronological order…

I was at Mileu this evening with Joan, watching Norwegian jazz singer Silje Nergaard perform several songs from her two albums. She’s big in Europe but little known in Asia. This was the band’s first time in the region, in fact. Her voice is amazingly sweet (think Stacey Kent and Frente’s lead singer) and her…

I popped by HMV and found that it was still having a sale. Anyway I did want to pick up a few albums. Since A L and Krisalis mentioned Kings of Convenience a while back, I thought they should be worth checking out. I and picked up two albums, ‘Quiet Is The New Loud’ and…

My new band, the Moonjumpers, kind of met up this Sunday. We were all playing at a student jam session. It went well. It’s good to get out of ‘soloist’ mode every now and then, and work as a team. That’s the fun part. The students who don’t communicate with others are the ones who…