Art + General + Music + Nature

Well starting with some random things, my first CD Ancient Shadows now is available in Japan through X-REC. If you're in this country you'll find it available here.

Totonika, my hamster remains very sick, she´s fighting but she´s gone on a down and we´re suffering so much for her. Keep updated or show her love at her official site Totonika.com. I love you TOTONIKA you are so brave, you make the decision to live or stay, but as long as you're with me you'll be the most loved hammie on earth.  Thank you deep from my heart to all the ones that have left such pretty words in her guestbook and site and specially to Maria aka Yishana for the healing letter and sketch:

I'm re-living all the pain I underwent when my beloved dog Kira got sick and died years ago. I will never forget her and she has a special lullaby called "Good Night Kira" in the album. You can read the lyric/poem at KIRA´S SECTION and here is a drawing I've made to illustrate that song in my forthcoming album The Underliving.

To end this post, thanks very much to all the friends that have already donated for the release of the Underliving, we only have three weeks from now to send it to the factory if we want it to be in time for Faeriecon (USA), It will be out in 2011 for sure but I'd be happier if we can bring it with us to premier it there and thus I thank your support. Faeriecon is 3-4 Nov so that leaves us few weeks of margin.

The cd is READY, It's recorded, the artwork done, all we need is to gather the funds. It has 16 tracks and features some collaborations as Kelly Miller Lopez (harp) and Louisa John Krol (additional vocals) among others. This is a glimpse of the artwork included within:

Excerpt of the drawing for "One last Hope" song included in the forthcoming album

What can you do to help THE UNDERLIVING RELEASE?

-Well you can DONATE. Even  1 Eur can help. There´s a Paypal donation form in THE UNDERLIVING PAGE

-You can BUY "Off the lane" single. For 1 Eur you will have one of the tracks of The Underliving plus the instrumental karaoke that won´t be in the album, and you'll be contributing indirectly to the fundraising. Remember you can watch the videoclip also at theunderliving.com

-You can BUY my first album or any item (original painting, pendant, book or craft) from the store. If you downloaded my first CD illegally... this is time to show your love and support purchasing the original, it will be all derived to pay the manufacturing of the new album. By the way you can preview and listen all the tracks at the link to make sure you migh like it. I'll be listing handmade items and specials during these weeks in the store. All sales will go to the fund.

-If you can´t do anything of the above, you still can help. You can voice out our name, you can  spread the crowdfunding link http://theunderliving.com or our official site http://yidneth.com or http://priscillahernandez.com in all your networks. Thanks for being my streat-team.  You can also join me in my networks.

I'm thinking of making another online broadcast 10 or 11th of September. Stay tuned.

Well, reaching the end of it :), if things going well and working this month at this pace, early September all artworks and final mix of The Underliving should be ready to go to the factory. If we can fund the release (and thanks to all my supporters I'm setting a page for you that will launch soon) the Cd should be ready early August and so far we intend to premier it in Faeriecon (USA) and Hispacon (Spain) both in November. Please consider to spread the link of  theunderliving.com in your networks, or share "off the lane" videoclip, or buy the single, or make a contribution, everything helps.!

So remember this drawing?

I decided to make the neck a bit shorter and while painting the eyes a bit less cartoonish, half of the drawings in the cd are more cartoon and the other half more "realistic" style, but I decide while painting to mingle a bit.

So here's  a snippet about how the thing is looking at the moment, just a crop of a much bigger picture I should be sharing in a few days.

FRIDAY USTREAM ONLINE MINI CONCERT AND CHAT

20:30 CET

You can enter directly with your twitter or facebook account here

http://priscillahernandez.com/live-broadcast-chat-and-videoblog

I'll be gifting the original pencil sketch shown above among the listeners by the way.

This is my crazy working place...

so welcome in!  I have a little space out in the corridor I've set up like an additional space to record isolated from the PC but most of my work in music is made in this room. It's never very tidy,  never more than five minutes. But this is my  magic corner, full of memories, and under the custody of my "moon man" (ty Patricia) , and Kira all over the place.

You can see more pics of my instruments here.

So overall look to some of my babies! :)

Above: my studio. You can see  my hammered dulcimer, my harp (Fullsicle) my shanti and koshi chimes,my kantele, my mountain dulcimers (one baritone from Ron Ewing Dulcimers), some flutes, whistles, percussion things and more.

My oscar drum from Tribal Thunder (so sweet) and tibetan bowl three fellow fairies gifted me last birthday, also my box with picks and my rowan seeds that protect the studio (ty Kelly).

My crazy pannel where I organize and plot work, with some loved cards and flyers, and above framed Kira portrait gifted by illustrator Melissa Irwin. Up in the shelf my jouhikko that i'm trying to tame. And here and there some flutes and thingies

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Above: rodek2 mic, despite having tried more expensive mics I'm really so happy with this one, I´ve recorded  quite a wealth of instruments with it.  And also my main keyboard a Roland rd700sx with hammer keys. I have also a secondary roland fantom and some oldies vintage that I don't use anymore.

That´s me made as a doll  (made by Alba García from Fantasiation)  and in good company of the Dark Crystal creatures! In case you didn't guess what my favorite movies are! LOL

Most of the work requires PC, that´s my soundcard, PC and monitors, yes I need to upgrade my studio monitors quite urgently but meanwhile I trust not only my ears for the final mixing mastering. You can see another doll by Patricia  Hedegaard and Jareth the mighty goblin King

Soooo heading back there to go on working...! Hope you felt cozy!