My week of discoveries

I started a new morning habit....to start my day with a laughing meditation....and I mean literally....to laugh....so I read this blog and this other blog

Discovered some Dutchness since i live in Amsterdam, the voice of Ilse DeLange i recognize a similar sound to mine :-)
How did I know that this sign was from Sidney,Australia? I don't know how I knew...but I would love to see it myself or does anyone reading my blog knows where this sign is located? can pinpoint on google maps please?
I'm so intrigued by this thing. I was just reading this blog and they had the post about this sign....

Study by a University of Chicago on percentage of believers of God per country and the history of the fluctuation in the last century, interesting percentages.But where do we go from there? 

Celestine Chua is awesome,as her blog on self development.
This post she wrote on 101 things to ask yourself every day always manage to bring me back to the present. I really find it hard to be present every day.

Bands listened this week

For my radio show on Radio cicada, I am always looking for new talents from South Europe, so I'm always listening to lot of new and unsigned music...from everywhere !Here my best source is twitter
This week I listened to
Dr. Trikinosis, electronic music from Spain succested to me by the blog Weloveyoursongs
Jazz Callner,and some interesting african inspired melodies
The Kiteman Orchestra thanks to the Dutch radio 3fm, I am sure those guys rock live!
Irish  band Rezlow and melanchony

Unsigned bands played so far....emergenti italiani e non

In English:

I have not been good,so far, to update here on the activities and promotions of the new incredible artists that I have been doing for the past 5 months through Radio Cicada.
( To listen to us/to old episodes go to this post to find out how)

A weekly review and careful listening of lots of bands from Italy, Spain, Portugal,Greece, Albania,Bosnia,Montenegro and Serbia.
I am therefore starting this week to list all the bands and fantastic musicians we discover and promote!

From January to April 2012 we therefore played:

Breis
DimitrisManolias
Nao
Sir Giant
Quinto Imperio  
BAD STAFF 
La La Love you
Stormy Mondays
Jorge Otero
OCP
Adonoris
Luis Antero
Emanuel Casimiro
Giordano Maselli
Professional Sinnerz
Apostolis Armagos
Fent Tard
Kostika Collaku
Cristina Branco
Nikos Ordoulidis
Raul Gonzalo
Sarao Latino
Chema Lara
Melli
Nikoh e.s.
La Blanche Alchimie
Chiara Ragnini
Beppe Gambetta
Dimitris Manolias
Jovana Nikolic
Luciano Martella



If any of you band/songwriters are there reading this post and I forgot the link to your website, send me a message and I will update this post with it :-)

Radio Cicada has a blog and we transmit on air every Thursday and Sunday evening on Salto FM,which can be listened to, on the internet as well.

In Italiano:

Sono stata molto disorganizzata( lo ammetto!) nel parlare della mia attivita' di promotrice di band emergenti e di presentatrice radio ma da questo mese cerchero' di aggiornare regolarmente quello che sara' in rotazione su Radio Cicada.
Le nostre trasmissioni sono su Salto FM, canale radio e tv locale di Amsterdam, che possono essere anche ascoltate su internet, se andate a questo post, ci sono tutte le istruzioni. E' possibile riascoltare e scaricare tutti gli episodi degli ultimi mesi.

Ecco quindi una lista di tutte le band che abbiamo passato da Gennaio ad Aprile 2012:

Breis
DimitrisManolias
Nao
Sir Giant
Quinto Imperio  
BAD STAFF 
La La Love you
Stormy Mondays
Jorge Otero
OCP
Adonoris
Luis Antero
Emanuel Casimiro
Giordano Maselli
Professional Sinnerz
Apostolis Armagos
Fent Tard
Kostika Collaku
Cristina Branco
Nikos Ordoulidis
Raul Gonzalo
Sarao Latino
Chema Lara
Melli
Nikoh e.s.
La Blanche Alchimie
Chiara Ragnini
Beppe Gambetta
Dimitris Manolias
Jovana Nikolic
Luciano Martella


Cerchero' dalla prossima settimana di scrivere un post mensile/settimanale....( non riesco a trovare il tempo di farlo...)
Se voi bands/cantautori avete letto questo post e ho dimenticato il link al vostro sito,scrivetemi e lo aggiungero' al post appena posso!

Siamo in diretta su radio Cicada la domenica e il giovedi sera

My week of discoveries

This week I have been working on a new version of the kompoz song BLUE SKIES, both in terms of singing, adding some bluesy feeling and in terms of lyrics, i am confident it will sound nice, here is the instrumental version http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/home.track.project?trackId=182279&projectId=30224
I visited an interesting place called Lev Kaupas where I was totally inspired by the movement #givingissharing born from the idea of giving 2 Festival tickets for free as a present to whoever, through the ad on a newspaper. That was done by Jeroen and he attracted lots of emails of people inspired, touched by him, and also companies that....wanted to actually follow his example and give! So now this guy is helping these companies to do that!
I also found out, how to do my new favourite drink, which is made of fermented kefir grains and next thing I am going to do is to learn how to do it :-)
Then I am reading on eating flowers! Healthy and tasty flowers, but i did not know they were so much...42? I only knew roses and the squash flowers that we eat in Italy( stuffed with filling or fried, yummi so delicious!)
http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/42-flowers-you-can-eat.html

Jamming Jamming

Lately I have been participating in many jams in Amsterdam enjoying the exploration of vocal improvisation and i loved it!
So many ideas have been rumbling in my head since and many things are going on...

Airplay Radio Cicada FM in Amsterdam

Every Thursday night from 9 to 10 pm on radio cicada FM, I promote art,news and artists from Southern Europe,
therefore I am happy to receive news/newsletters/info and above all demos from unsigned bands from Southern Europe.
You can send your material to debbje@yahoo.it and I will reply to each email!

How to listen to the radio show:

If you live in the Amsterdam region: tune in on 106.8 FM

Online: go to>;salto.nl  click on> radio choose>stads fm  and click on this button >

How to download/stream an old radio show:

go to >salto.nl  click on>
then click on >stads fm on demand and choose the date and time of the show :Thursdays at 9pm

 In Italiano:

Ogni giovedi sera dalle 9 alle 10 su radio cicada FM, promuovo arte,notizie e artisti provenienti dalla regione mediterranea,
ragion per cui ricevo sempre con piacere suggerimenti,demo,notizie da band emergenti.
Potete mandare il vostro materiale a debbje@yahoo.it rispondo ad ogni email!

Come ascoltare il programma radio:

Se abiti nella regione di Amsterdam: sintonizzati su 106.8 FM

vai su >salto.nl clicca su> radio scegli>stads fm e clicca il bottone >

Come scarica/ascoltare in streaming le puntate precedenti:

vai su > salto.nl clicca su >stads fm on demand e scegli la data e l'ora del programma : tutti i giovedi alle 21

Buon Ascolto!

AND 2012!

2012 has come bringing ideas,

like this one

words of wisdom that I find around the globe and that will be of use to so many other people,
loving to listen to new music from South of Europe for this idea 

that takes place in Amsterdam.

But then there are also the creative ideas that are born on the internet and that bring to FREE MP3 to download thanks to this idea
and also this idea.
Are you hungry for more?
found this image btw