HAPPY ST. VALENTINES DAY to the Music ALL Music Park Group

Happy Saint Valentine's Day to everyone in the music ALL music Park Group
Here's a special gift for you
Ar Hyd y Nos
It's the JaNa KYoMooN version of the traditional Welsh Tune "Ar Hyd y Nos" - All through the night
Hope you enjoy it and your love shines all through the nights ahead
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It was 11PM in Australia on Tuesday when I got up to do a 4AM gig for the Australian Bushfires Benefit @ the Music Hall of Fame last Tuesday! In the words of Virginia Woolf - "Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life." One of the most positive aspects of Second Life is the charity work - Seems to bring out the best in people. The $200,000 Lindens goal was reached as I was on stage.

Wednesday @ 7PM was the regular Music and Technology School. Q+A about streaming and such. Three of our group members have now got streams and are getting ready to launch into on line performing! I am recording a podcast for the next class

Thursday was the gig @ SugarHill DJ Miles and I had been preparing for weeks. Of course come to perform and I started playing the stream test music - whoops!. Well mistakes do happen but we recovered and the 30+ minute show seemed to be a big success. Nice to mix the music up - a cocktail of jazz, electronica, rock, drum n bass - "ambient fusion" was the term miles coined - hope we can do some more shows soon.

Friday 13th i played at a beautiful wedding - Brwynwynn and Ghrynnd got partnered in SL @ the Isle of Mists with as much intensity as any real life affair! Amazingly beautiful and moving service.

. . . and so to Valentine's Day. Members of the music ALL music Park can Download the tune Ar Hyd y Nos
See you sometime this week!

Another inspiring week . . .

Another inspiring week of on line creative adventures culminating with the electronica festival @ Torben Asp's ethereal club in Second Life. Four hours of great music from Michi Renoir, Cypress Rosewood, Torben and myself. The Particle show and revolving audience has to be experienced! I found earthling Richard Oakland floating around the Peace Gallery so think I have persuaded him to do a photography and music exhibition in SL . . hooray. (BTW He thinks I have a future as an SL tour guide . . . well at least I may have a future)
Formatting Heliosense opened his exhibition today - Patrick Millard in Real Life - nice collection of artistic photos at the New Boston Art Colony
Music performances for me this week have included the Red Cat Forgotten Church and San Padre as well as events @ the music ALL music Peace Park with music for Brywnwyn and Mystical One's Birthday. Met DJ nuvolino this week from Australia and we collaborated on a special tune for Brywnwyn which he debuted Downstairs @ the Park along with his hypnotic brand of trance.
Very excited about the collaboration with SJ Miles Eleventhauer for the concert next Thursday @ the Gallery Galli on Sugar Hill Island. This is a special blend of ambient and fusion and jazz
The Music and Technology School on Wednesday Night was packed again and I demonstrated how I put a track together to play @ my on line performances. Then spent hours getting the new stream working which will be demonstrated next week
Oh and one last note - Mandolin Reign is closing down so there are no more "Goodbye Weekend" shows there. I will start again March 1st at the mAm Peace Park. I am sorry to see that venue go.

Best New Age ~ Jana Kyomoon

Winners of The 1rst AMA Music Awards!

The Winners of the first AMA (Anthology Music Awards) Awards with categories as created & picked by your fans across the grid are as follows & listed in no specific order:

Best Rock ~ Allister Westland
Best Acoustic ~ Phiona Ember
Best Live DJ ~ Mik Rosenfeld
Best New Live Artis ~ Sphere Quan
Best Jazz ~ Bones Writer
Best Instrumental ~ OneHempcat Oldrich
Best Folk ~ Frogg Marlowe & Jaycat Nicco
Best New Age ~ Jana Kyomoon
Best Duo ~ Erin68 Frog & Satin Galli
Best Venue ~ Hips West/Heron Island Performance Space/Carter Liveoak & Gillian Carthage
Best Female Artist ~ Grace McDunnough
Most Popular Artist ~ KevinMThomas Carpool

WOW I feel like i've won a Grammy!

Live music in SL - 5 of the best PART 1

There is an incredible amount of music in the virtual world of Second Life - so much that I could spend most of my time exploring and listening and never get any work done!! . . Here are some of my favourites so far . . . Search their profiles and find a gig

MUSICIANS
Torben Asp - Danish Electronica - very uplifitng, melodic and euro-rhythmic. Lots of good stories and now with a great Particle Show. His venue is the Yard Club Ethereal

ZeroOne Paz - Unique San Francisco Bay cool Jazz vibes and original songs/music with covers arranged in his inimitable style from Leonard Cohen to Talking Heads and Michael Franks. His Home is the Bluffs

Cypress Rosewood - Native American Flutes with Ambient Synths and Guitars. All live from his studio in TN. One of the pioneers of space music in SL.

DJs
DJ Miles Eleventhauer - if you are a true jazz buff catch one of Miles Jazz shows. Thursday night @ Sugar Hill is a good start - that's where I found him. Plays all kinds of jazz including fusion and acid jazz with the stories behind the music from the jazzologist.

DJ Format - aka Formatting Heliosense - Earlier this century the RL radio program 'electric brainwaves' gained much recognition and notice in the ambient music circuit. In 2005 the show went off the air and has been on hiatus ever since but this show has come back in SL only. For those who cherish the sounds of ambient/idm/glitch/noise and experimental electronic music. His home is the Wandering Star . The Wandering Star Indie Club, Phasmogoria (59, 21, 601)

Invite me to a gig!
JaNa KYoMooN

Music for the Soul Festival - the Welsh Edition

Last night we had a Welsh edition of the Music for your Soul Festival "Downstairs" in the music ALL music Peace Park.
It was a small intimate affair with Welsh Translations by Brywnwyn Llewellyn and tea and welsh cakes served by Mystical One and Ghryndd. JaNa read from the book of Welsh Sayings that Melanie Safka had sent her and played welsh folk tunes like Ar Hyd y Nos and Suogan in her electronic rhythmic reflective way
These are nice hours to relax
Look out for the next one - one day next week @4PM Probably be a children's hour