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Camila Knight - Music from Barcelona
She talks about her song “Home,” which you can listen to and watch on
YouTube, “I wrote “Home,” last year during lockdown 1.0 and I was
uncertain about what was going to happen next. I did not expect the
whole craziness with COVID, and I saw people with the fear of what would
come next. (They were thinking) I am the next one and how will COVID
affect me? I did not want to give into fear, and I wanted to communicate
in this song, that you don’t have to give into fear. I was expressing my
feeling of gratitude for little things in life. I was grateful for being
healthy, safe, having a home and for my loved ones. I was trying to keep
my spirits high. I wanted to communicate that we have the strength to
overcome this and without fear. Maybe this is a moment of probation for
us. (The message) is to appreciate what you have and your loved ones.”
Did it ever enter Camila Knight’s mind to hold back releasing some of
her songs, since there has been little to no live performances by
artists anywhere in the world during these COVID times?
“The first song that I released during COVID times was “Angels.” I had a
feeling that maybe it was not the best time, because people were
(focused) on other things life. I felt I had to share this song with the
world. The message in “Angels,” is very appropriate for this time.
“Home” is also perfect for this situation. These are crazy times.
“Angels,” is a very, very personal song. It is special to me. I decided
to release it as a single, because of the message that it carries. It is
close to my heart and I came up with the idea for the song, while
playing around with a chord progression and then I started to write the
lyrics. The lyrics came to me in maybe five minutes. I felt that maybe
the song didn’t even come from me, but I was like a medium who was
transferring something, a message that comes from within.
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These Fine Moments - Season 10
Hilary Kaufmann talks about their respective musical styles when she
first met Robert Watts, “We were different in that my musical interests
were completely opposite from Robert’s. I was more into Bonnie Raitt,
Linda Ronstadt and I guess more Folk Rock and Americana, but I have been
doing original music in bands for a long time. My band was a finalist in
the Kerrville Folk Festival. I am also a songwriter. Robert is much more
edgy than I am, and he took me way out of my comfort zone. Our voices
blended so well together it was a natural progression. I feel writing
with him has really helped me to grow as a musician.”
Robert Watts picks up the conversation, “I come at it from a little
different angle. My writing style is not so much literal, but it is more
abstract. Hilary centers me a lot to keep me from getting too far out
there.”
“Robert’s influences are more from eighties music and I am slightly
older, so my influences are mostly from the seventies,” she says. As far as how their music has evolved during their ten-year careers together, Robert says, “We started as a duo and then we progressed as a full band thing. We have always had control over the music, the arrangements and everything else when we had the band. It got to the point when it didn’t make sense to have the band anymore because it was too expensive. We went with the model we now have.”
Hilary adds, “Initially, I would play acoustic guitar like Robert and
some harmonica, with the band, but once we started going with the duo
(music) Robert set me up with a pretty cool electric guitar and an old
Gibson Falcon amp from ’63, so I get to do all the tremeloes and colors.
That made it much more interesting than just two acoustic guitar
players. We are a lot moodier now (the music not them). It is a lot of
fun.”
As for the name These Fine Moments there are two interesting stories
attached to that.
“The first EP that we put out when we first got together, there was a
line in a song that said, “I won’t let these fine moments pass you by,”
Hilary Kaufmann says.
Robert also recalls, “One of the first bookings we got in
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Leah Belle Faser - Rising Star
When you first listen to songs such as “Better
Than Mine,” “Back Home,” “The Lift,” and “Second-Hand Store,” from Leah
Belle Faser’s new album Crossing Hermi’s Bridge, songs about
relationships and longing for home, the first thing you want to do is go
to the album credits to find out who co-wrote these songs with her.
Surely, you think, a sixteen-year-old could not write so insightfully
about such mature themes and compose such well constructed songs. Then
you think there must be information missing from the album credits,
because all of these songs are attributed to this affable teenage girl
who answers your questions thoughtfully and you realize not only are her
songs mature, but so is she. Yes, she has all the exuberance of a
sixteen-year-old, but she also is wise beyond her years. Leah Belle Faser
says, “There is only so much that has happened in my life at sixteen, so
there are only so many things that I can
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Actress Ana Cerdeiriña
Life began for Ana
Cerdeiriña, “in Salamanca, a little town in Castile y León. It is a big
area in the northwest of Spain, but not as far north as Galicia. It is a
university city with students from all over the world. I have a small
family, my father, my mother, my sister, and me. The center of my life
is my father, my mother, my sister and now my daughter. My mother is a
nurse, my father is a doctor, and my sister works as a hospital
administrator. My father and mother split up when I was twelve years
old, and I went to live in Madrid with my mother and my sister. I have
lived in Madrid for thirty years. When I was a child
and I wanted to become an actress, my mother and father thought that was
bad news. They wanted me to study for a different career. In Spain when
you are fourteen and sixteen years old and if you say you want to be an
actress, it is not beautiful news, because it is so difficult to be an
actor or an actress here. Our country has a lot of good things, but the
arts and acting or creative (careers) are difficult. If my daughter
came home and said she wanted to be an actress I would probably tell her
no, but fortunately she loves math and science,” says Ana Cerdeiriña.
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Allyson Morris - Jazz Album
The album opens with an old David Frishberg song, “Peel Me a Grape,” for
which a sultry, mysterious, almost James Bond like companion video was
filmed. The creation of the video has a hint of mystery to it with two
Peters and an Allyson, during a pandemic.
Allyson Morris recalls, “I ran into an old friend (Peter Clifford) who
is in the film industry. I played the album for him and he loved “Peel
Me a Grape.” He said you need
a video
Allyson. Nobody in the film industry was working in Toronto, because of
COVID. That conversation was in June of 2020.
Peter Faragher started writing out the storyboard with my friend Peter
Clifford who has an old 1968 88 Delta car, and we did that video on a
Sunday afternoon when it wasn’t busy, down University Avenue (Toronto)
and we (fastened) cameras to the car. There was a cinematographer in the
front seat, one in the back seat and there was another car following me,
as we drove through the downtown core. We ended up on York Street
overlooking the CN tower and all of the buildings served as a backdrop
for the video. They had gone out a few weeks earlier to scout out
locations. It was an incredible experience and
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October 1993 A Magic Evening
Jamie James who had a band called the Kingbees and who also had played
with Dennis Quaid and the Sharks, explains how this album, which was
never intended to become an album, was born.
“My sister called me and said, Jaime I saw a picture of you online that
I have never seen before. Where and when is it from? She sent me the
link and I looked at it. I told her that is a band that Harry and I had
for about six months back in 1993. It was called Harry Stanton with the
Cheap Dates.
I
remembered that Slim Jim Phantom had been digitizing music from
cassettes. We had recorded four songs in Paramount Studios on Santa
Monica Boulevard, back in ’93. He sent me a track, but I couldn’t find
it. I called him and I said, could you resend that to me? I listened to
it again and it was the Bob Dylan song “Baby Tonight.” I liked it.
I
thought I like this, and I wonder if other people would enjoy it. I
called “Slim” back and he had four songs, but it wasn’t enough
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Jemima - Things I Never Said
The first song on
the EP, is “As You Are,” and it clocks in at three minutes and twenty
seconds and has the perfect blend of retro Pop and modern Pop, with an
easy flowing melody. Jemima tracked her own background vocals creating
the feel of some of the early sixties all-girl groups. One should not
however think of this song as an attempt to merely giving rebirth to an
era of music that has long since vanished, by the time she was born, but
instead it is an artist who knows what she likes and has taken the best
from what she heard as a child, while listening to her parents’ records
and bringing to both her songwriting and to the studio a keen sense for
what resonates with audiences today. She says, “I am
twenty-four and I discovered this music by sitting in my garage, as a
kid and going through my parents’ records and cassette tapes. I really
liked that music. I wasn’t into Justin Bieber or whatever other music
kids my age were listening to. It (the music on the records) sounded so
intriguing to me and there is such a focus on storytelling, which I
loved. It sounded more genuine to me. I went to school as Elvis when I
was ten years old. I had the black wig on, and I |
Montse Muñoz - Actress, Model
“My first name
Montse comes from Montserrat, which is a really high mountain mountain
range, and they are difficult to climb. My name comes from these
mountains. I always asked my mom why she chose this name and she said,
because you asked for this name when you were born. She said all of your
life you wanted to climb, and you always looked for the difficult way to
arrive at the top. You are doing it step by step and that is why you
have this name,” says Montse Muñoz. She was born in
the small city of Manresa, sixty-seven kilometers from Barcelona,
located in Spain’s autonomous region of Catalunya. Legend has it that St
Ignatius of Loyola, while on his way back from Montserrat stopped in
Maresa to pray and that for one year he lived in a cave not far from
Maresa. She was one of
only two children in her family and her extended family on her maternal
and paternal side was even smaller. When asked if her
creativity is something naturally flows from her family, she laughs
lightly and says, “My mother is the only one in
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French Actress Sandra Leclercq
We asked her how
it felt to have a puppet flirt with her, “It felt really good!” she says
laughing. We were of course
talking about her voiceover work for a French advertisement for Spotify
and Sandra Leclercq was the voice for the female puppet. I really love it
(voiceover). It is really interesting. Even when I audition for animated
movies or things like that, I like to have the picture of the character
and to see what the animated version looks like. If it is an animal what
kind of animal is it? Even when you are just using your voice, you are
still acting. I think if it is TV, theater or voiceover in my opinion it
is still the same, it is acting.
I did an audition before, but this was the first time that I recorded
something that I booked.
I looked at the puppet and I loved it. It was very technical to have my
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Kipo, an Animated Teenage Hero
The artwork is tremendous, from the scenery to the characters and even
the clothes that the human characters and even some of the mutants wear.
The music is used to compliment the mood, rather than becoming the main
focal point. After a while you forget that you are watching animated
creatures, because the voice actors do such a superb job bringing them
to life and the story created by Sechrist, which evolved from his
webcomic Kipo, derived from the main character’s name. Studio Mir from
South Korea animated this film. Karen Fukuhara, a Japanese American actress, is
a thirteen year old girl named Kipo, who is on the surface of the earth,
separated from her father and friends (her mother is presumed dead) who
live in the burrows below the earth’s surface. The mutants, the result
of what appears to some sort of human made catastrophic event that wiped
out the majority of the earth’s population, well they rule the surface.
In most cases the mutants are enormous and although most of them are
animals of some sort, they also talk, they scheme, some wear fancy
clothes and others own restaurants.
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Actor German Torres
At the time we
spoke, 24 horas en la vida de una mujer, produced by highly acclaimed
actress Silvia Marsó, who also starred in the musical with Felipe Ansola
had just returned to the stage at Teatro Galileo in Madrid, after an
absence of nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked German
Torres what that experience was like. He said, “It was
fantastic, after the world stopped, returning to the stage is a miracle.
The theater has maximum security and culture is safe now in Madrid. We
are allowed to have fifty-five percent (of capacity) for the audience
now. In other communities only thirty people are allowed. We had forgotten,
just a little about the energy of the stage, because it had been so long
since we had performed.”
There were also adjustments the actors had to make, “It is difficult
because the audience has masks on, and we can only watch their eyes (and
not see the rest of their faces). There is a different (dyamic) with the
audience now, but they like the show. The return of the rehearsals is
very important after many months without performances.
I think people need to watch musicals and to hear music, because during
the three
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Actor John De Luca
We caught up with John De Luca, after he filmed
the four-part miniseries Palomares, was awaiting the release of
the feature film NATO 0 (Born 0), in which he has a leading role and
after the debut of his short film Entre Nosotros (Between Us) on
Amazon Prime. Entre Nosotros was produced by his own film
production company First Round Films, in which he partners with David
Smith. DeLuca’s co-star in Entre Nosotros is Spanish actress and
renowned cellist Irene Rouco. Take us back to
when and where it all began John. “I was born in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I discovered acting at a very early age in
school. I am an only child. My mother worked at a few stores and then
when my mother had me, she became a housewife. My dad had auto repair
(parts) stores. He used to sell clutches and brakes and other things for
cars. I had a normal childhood, nothing big, middle class and in a big
city. I learned English from an early age. I think I was three.”
He describes himself as an extroverted boy, who chatted a lot and who
was very outgoing.
“I was a bit of a problem kid at school. I was smart and sometimes I was
the smartass in class. I was expelled a few times. I wasn’t violent, but
I was always chatting or playing pranks.
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Rebecca Howell
“I have quite a large family.
My immediate family (consists) of my parents, my older brother
and me. With my extended
family both my mother and father have huge families and we are very
close. Even with my third cousins I know who all of them are.
We get together every year and I
have a huge support system. It is really great.
When my father was in college, he was the lead singer in a Rock band. He
also plays the guitar. That is where I got my love for music. His whole
family (she pauses momentarily) his mother, a lot of his siblings and
many of his cousins, they all sing or play an instrument. Growing up I
was always around other musicians or people who sing and at gatherings I
would sit on the porch and sing at family gatherings. I have been around
music since the beginning.
They
are happy memories, especially now since there are so many people in my
family who have passed. It is special to reflect upon those days when I
got to sing with my grandmother, my aunts and uncles at family
gatherings. It was really a great experience to sit there and enjoy it.
My grandmother was such a huge part of my life and she passed away in
2017, during my senior year of high school. She had a hand in raising
me. She kept me during the day, while my parents worked from the time I
was an infant until I was old enough to stay at home by myself.
She was an incredible
woman. She taught
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French Designer: Alice Berry Atelier
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Alice Berry - French Fashion Designer
Recently, Riveting
Riffs Magazine sat down with fashion designer Alice Berry of Alice Berry
Atelier from Paris, France to talk about her timeless clothing designs
for women and the importance she places on her collections being
sustainable. “I think timeless
dresses are a better choice, because for example in ten years my
customers can always wear them. On the contrary if the dresses are on
the cutting edge of fashion in one year or two, they will no longer be
able to wear them. The fashion changes very quickly and I think too
quickly. I would rather (create) slow fashion rather than fast fashion.
I choose sustainable fabrics and materials. Above all I (emphasize) the
sewing technique. It is very important to me to do quality sewing, so
the dress will last.
My clothing is custom fitted. I make one model or design and then it is
custom fitted for each individual. Everything is made to order. I do not
have any stock, because I
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