The LaLaVox Box - "The Sea, The Sea"

As I posted yesterday, Achim Treu (aka UFO Hawaii) and I are collaborating on a little musical project together with Lorelei Vanora and Carolyn Turgeon.

We (as The LaLaVox Box) are in the process of writing, recording, + producing a series of nautical tunes featuring vocals by Ms. Vanora and designed especially to be presented at Carolyn's "I Am A Mermaid" blog. She has just presented the first of these today, and has said that it's fine with her if I present a copy of her sparkly + glamorous post here. So without further ado...
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24 May

So as I lovingly mentioned on Friday, I have a gorgeous little mermaid ditty to share with youse and am doing so fashionably late because I am very glamorous.

So you have seen Ms. Lorelei Vanora. And here's the rest of The LaLaVox Box, who are very good looking, which sometimes you have to be to hang out with mermaids in fashion-forward cities like Berlin, Germany:



And here is their sweet and sumptuous song, "The Sea, The Sea," sung by one real-life mermaid, making its debut. Just be careful you keep your head about you and don't start crashing any ships as you listen.





Admit that is a most mermaidly and awesome song. I have generously included links so that you might buy said song at iTunes and/or Amazon.

You are welcome. And next month: song number two, plus a sweet video for this one...

From Carolyn Turgeon's "I Am A Mermaid" blog, May 24th, 2011
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This particular song is of the jaunty-pop-song breed of tune. The songs we have planned for you over the next 12 or so months will cover all sorts of emotional territory though, and we hope you will find yourselves quite entertained along the way!



Cheers,
LaLaVox
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www.mildredlovesyou.com
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The LaLaVox Box (a music project)

So... I've just put together a little web page about a music project that Achim Treu (aka UFO Hawaii) and I are calling The LaLaVox Box:


www.lalavoxbox.com/thelalavoxboxmusic.html

This is the project that I was hinting around about (or posting something related to) before closing my Doodling Again: Day 28 (with a Mermaid Bonus) + Doodling Again: Day 40 (with a Mermaid Bonus) posts.

We decided it would be nice to do a nautical album - posting one song a month for the next year or so. And we have the pleasure of being able to add Lorelei Vanora and Carolyn Turgeon (with her "I Am A Mermaid" blog) into the mix as well!

In a past post, I said that in the future I thought I would probably be posting mermaidy stuff more over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog, but it looks as though at least The-LaLaVox-Box-oriented mermaidy stuff has found its home here instead.

I'll be keeping you posted!

Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 40 (with a Mermaid Bonus)

Dear me! It's been another mad day of racing and panting, just like yesterday - so this is the 2nd late-in-the-day Daily Doodle in a row.

On a less hectic note, it's also been a very mermaidy day today. Which is why today's new People-Doodle is actually a Mermaid-Doodle.

Unfortunately though, I don't have a Mermaid category in my Doodle Gallery. And since I don't feel convincingly enough inclined to put her into the Creature-Doodle category, the label "People-Doodle" will simply have to do.

...More about why today is a mermaidy day below, by the way. But first, the business-as-usual stuff...

A new People-Doodle:



An old People-Doodle:



And now for the mermaidy stuff...

...I hinted at it a bit in my "Day 28 (with a Mermaid Bonus)" post back at the end of April. And today the aforementioned Carolyn Turgeon (aforementioned on Day 28 that is) has blogged in sparkly and delightful ways about one Lorelei Vanora (The Singing Mermaid). She mentioned yours truly as well (introducing upcoming musical activities hinted at back on the aforementioned Day 28)... :P ;)

So now swim with great haste to Carolyn's I Am A Mermaid blog and see the giggly goodness contained in her "Berlin’s Singing Mermaid, Lorelei Vanora" post!



Oh, and one more thing before I go...

There's been an update over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog today as well; another reminder for a Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin session. Yes, it's that time again! If you would like to see this reminder (and simultaneously be informed about tomorrow's mind-warping Saturday-afternoon madness), you can do so HERE...

Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 28 (with a Mermaid Bonus)

Alright then. The business-as-usual stuff first...

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



I have been concentrating mainly on Creature-Doodles since bringing this blog back to life back at the end of March.

There were of course People-Doodles included within the sketchbook pages I was adding here for a while, but with no real focus on them in particular. I will begin focusing on People-Doodles in particular a bit more in May.

As a sort of introduction to this intention I'd like to share some things that went on yesterday evening.

I sat down looking for an approach for little mermaid illustration I wanted to do for a project that Künstler Treu and I have up our sleeves. I wanted to find an approach that would be simple and relatively quick to do, and I thought basing it on the way my Doodles come into being might be a nice way to start.

So, I took out my Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen, and began doodling...





The above People-Doodles are the four most visually pleasing of a multitude of brush scribbles that helped lead up to this:



And this is a preview of one element of the-little-something that Künstler Treu and I have up our sleeves - which will involve a certain authoress by the name of Carolyn Turgeon...

...Who already had a great deal to do with this heavily mermaidy "Mildred Loves You" blog post from the beginning of this year.

Obviously I will be posting more mermaidy stuff in the future, but probably mostly over at my Mildred blog rather than here at this blog... ;)

Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))