Once Upon A Time

Derek G

Once upon a time in the Music realm, there was this chick, oh yea that would be me. This chick LOVES making Videos and attaching Music with them. Ever the student and always learning new stuff this chick ran into the RULES of You Tube Enforcers! They say... "Hey Chick! Stop using this Music or we will shut you down!" Very frightened by the Enforcers of Video and Films she runs to her Friend Derek G, and says "Hey D' what should I do." D' says don't sweat it do your own Music and the Enforcers will shut the hell up. The chick then says, but I don't have any keyboards or technical stuff to do Music. The D' ever so cool and never frazzled threw two links at the chick, one for Sony Vegas and another for Reverbnation, and calmly says go for it, if you need help let me know.  

Reverbnation

A brand NEW world this chick enters full of NEW adventures after working her way up to Sony Vegas for Films and Video and adding Sony Acid [for Music] to her arsenal of creativity. Ever the helpful person, Derek of Feed The Fire Films, was always there for her to help her with developing her craft if she needed it. At that time the chick set up her profile at Reverbnation, and had lots of questions and lots of doubt. Comfortable with the Music she wrote for Film she was never quite comfortable with a format that shared her Music with the world so to say. She wondered if anyone would understand it or like her Music. She also wondered if anyone would really consider her an actual Musician.

And then she met five major Friends that would help her through this amazing process... All of these Friends are accomplished well disciplined Musicians, who not only helped her on her way but, shared her work with their Friends. These kind Musicians are Mike Heartman who was her very first Friend at Reverbnation, Noise Flower, Zaelon, Ryo Utasato, P Eric Bailey [who co wrote her second version of "Somebody Save Me,"] and the ever sought after Beatmistresscait who promoted the hell our of the chick.

From Top Left to Right Mike Heartman, Noise Flower, Zaelon, Ryo Utasato and Beatmistresscait

Time to Think Beyond Yourself

One of the most amazing writers in Blogging history is Sachin Kate. His story is amazing as an Entrepreneur. Strong in both Business and Social Concerns, his Blog has branched out to encompass proper diet, legal work from home guides,his favorite videos, reviews and many more high standard writings. But this one story caught my attention as some of our Devotions Recording Artists have opted in to assist the Reverbnation's "Music For Good" program to assist helping folks around the world through various programs [i.e: hunger etc]. 

Sachin has written about "Help a child reach 5" it includes a powerful Video with a very strong mission statement whose purpose is quite clear. It's time to stand togehter as one world if any of us is going to make it. Please check out his work and also check out Devotions Recording's NEW Artist....

Vittorio Gerlini Jp

Our New Artist is an ITALIAN MUSICIAN,LIVING IN JAPAN - PRODUCER / SINGER / SONGWRITER / plays the PIANO / GUITAR / BASS / KEYBOARDS and is WORKING IN TV SHOWS-COMMERCIALS as a SINGER and ACTOR. We are most honored for our reopening to acquire such talent. This short Article represents the NEW Consciousness of two well crafted skills.... writing and music. In our beautiful world there truly is room for all expression.

Learn how to get your music noticed at ReverbNation.com

Now is the time to work for the Good of our World

http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics.html

What Music Can Do

 

What One Email Can Do

and

What Music Can Do

In this day and age we tend to forget those around us. It's 2013 what new things can we reach for together as the "conscious race of humans?" Reverbnation has some answers and those who want to participate you can do so easily. Now is the time, give it a try, why not? All of my songs being sold in this program have little cute hearts by them :0)

We Can Make A Difference

DEVOTIONS RECORDING ARTIST PARTICIPATING

MARK HOEVET

MARC CEENEY SOLO MUSICIAN 

JAKI SONG

http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics.html

Quiet Soul-Dynamic Sound-Thoughtful Spealer

P. Eric Baily On Kooder's Radio Show

P. Eric Bailey is one of the most Dynamic Producers and Musicians alive. Working with such Artist as Billy D, Grant, Paul.... so many, has this quiet soul worked with. Thoughtful in production his bold Classical Style grounds the work's textures. Am I partial, well yes I am, I too have worked with Mr. Bailey... but now you can hear this phenomenal interview with one of the top interviewers "Kooder" at "The Mix Files." Scroll through Player to Mr. P.

   

Devotions Recording 2013 Music with Heart

One of the most compelling things about film or video is Music. Without the heart of this artistic form our shows, TV, Motion Pictures, and even our video games would really be a drag. So like I have been going on and on about 2013.... Yes it's that time of year again when we all start to think about the NEW Year. So I decided to hook up with one of my Instructors and get some fresh new looks for Devotions Recording and the other Film Companies who Love Devotions Recording Artists and our Guest. This Ad is for D.R. Devotions Recording will be working with Knight Productions for the Film 2013. I'm not sure where it's gonna go still trying to figure something out for "Concept" so yeah Striking Concept's Jodie will be helping me with that one. We have so much to learn about our WORLD but it really would help Americans to learn about our own Country first. That's always a good start. Learn about your own self before impositions on others. The primary standard Artist for GREAT Soundtrack will be invited for this project, but we might also have some Guest on this project as well. ya never know, i got plenty of time as 2013 isn't even here yet LOL.

Feel free to visit the Artists at Reverbnation: SHADE LAW Founder/Musician, BEATMISTRESSCAIT,  ANDREW SKELTON, NOISE FLOWER, ZAELON,  RYO UTASATO, P ERIC BAILEY, MIKE HEARTMAN, Jacki Song, Mark Hoevet, The Heretic- Snordelhans, Frank Weyzig, and DANZDMA.

CHECK OUT LAST FILM

"A MOMENT IN TIME"

2013 Neuro film festival

please vote thanks

Check out Knight Productions 4 and Striking Concept's NEW Entrances at Striking Concept Video's Blog  right here on Blogger

Careful how you vote-Consequences Do Matter

It's getting quite nasty over here in the States. Civility has left the building, and the undercurrent of Orwell has entered the building. Sad to say but we are reduced to pitting lies against truth, self contentedness against the whole of a Nation, and the real issues of jobs, healthcare, senior citizens right to have what they paid into, immigration, and women's issues are skirted around like most illusions that Politicians have about those who pay their salaries. Obama is trying, but what is he really trying? And Romney, well he is straight from the dawn of the US post industrial slavery, and would like to return their toot-sweet.  So I wrote this song called "7th Degree of Separation" and not stopping there, I proceeded to write an extended score for my Knight Productions Short Film "Mitt Romney The Real Deal?"  As Art disappears from both of these Candidates minds, might as well get as much Art out as possible... soon it will be replaced with Theocracy, an Industrial reversion, and a complete dumbing down of the general populace. Truth escapes both of them really, their both quite the joke, so it really becomes again.... voting for the lessor of two evils. Sense Politics has no ethics, universal care, or regard for real people living real lives you have no real choice but to vote for the lessor of two evils and hope for the best. When you see "Mitt Romney The Real Deal?" over at Striking Concept's Blog or You Tube you will know why I had to extend the Score to my Instrumental. There is a wonderful short story their also, very thought provoking and humorous. For now the instrumental "7th Degree of Separation."

 

 You might want to check out these Videos as well: BoonDocks Season 1 Episode 14 "The Block Is Hot,"  Mitt Romney Leaked Fundraiser Video "Full Video," and Breaking footage : China's Brutal Labor Camps, Part 1 as only partials are used in my short Film. 

Sun's Gonna Shine Beatmistresscait

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. 

--Alan Cohen--

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
--Aristotle Onassis--

Visit Beatmistresscait at Reverbnation; Devotions Recording most dedicated musician, to the art, of Music's expression.

The fundamentals of thinking and believing

"Love is much more fundamental than any kind of thinking or believing. 

It is the root and basis of who you are, at the most fundamental level. 

This means that anything other than love 

as an expression of your being 

is artificial and unnatural and is a result 

of not knowing who you are."

Bill Harris


 

We need to examine all the thoughts we have, the considerations and beliefs, and find out what's true and what isn't. And what actually belongs to somebody else... something somebody else told us and we've accepted. What's been imprinted or programmed, in other words. Stripping that stuff off (and letting go of the accompanying painful feelings and misguided behaviors) and finding what is our own inner truth. Because it comes from inside us it is pure and our inner knowing, from each of us as a spiritual being. It's based on universal knowledge, i.e. knowledge that is free of any kind of conditioning. The perspective is unconditional love. No one expresses this Love as deeply in her Music than Noise Flower, she exemplifies the movement of love within her work effortlessly. So check her out at Reverbnation.

Inspiring Quote of the Day WELCOME to Inspiration

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

I have found that beautiful music is a great aid to dissipating and releasing emotions that are not serving me, or that are getting in the way of a heart-felt high vibration (fulfillment and gratitude), the state of being that attracts abundance. Visit Song Jaki the Inspirational Soul of Devotions Recording.

A Moment In Time By Shade Law for the 2013 Neuro Film Festival

FIRST ON BLOGGER

Well I did it I entered the contest  at You Tube. You can follow The American Academy of Neurology at Twitter.and at You Tube. Film By Shade Law [I have MS-Remission]. Music By Shade Law "A Moment In Time" Percussion By Ryo Utasato Artist at Devotions Recording. Guest Speaker with Nancy “B” Live Motivational Speaker. Song: “A Moment In Time” ©2012 Devotions Recording-Shade Law [instrumental soundtrack at reverbnation.com] American Brain Foundation Film Competition "A Moment In Time."(Multiple Sclerosis My Story).

Let’s put our brains together to cure brain disease

A Moment In Time [OFFICIAL COMMERCIAL]

A Moment In Time

(Multiple Sclerosis My Story)

Let’s put our brains together to cure brain disease

In Remission from MS-13 years

COMMERCIAL By Shade Law

Music By Shade Law

©2012 Devotions Recording-Shade Law

American Brain Foundation Film Competition

Jan 2013 

Guest Speaker Nancy 'B' Live

Guest Musician Ryo Utasato

Why Should Fears Be Faced

Face of Fear's Film Still

With everything we all go through there appears to be a repetition in exactly what we go through. Hidden childhood memories tend to cause a cataclysmic cascade of effects on adult living. So just what is this "Face of Fear" that Shade wrote about in her Music???? Well I will tell you. It is a child that cries out from the wilderness within ones own heart... they cry for Hope, a child who wishes to end the pain of life but does not know how, a child who deeply wishes for Peace and most of all Love. Life with its series of ups and downs presents us an array of unsettling experiences and until we face our fears not much can be done about changing the repercussions of life. We all have chances to become our very best, we are given with each day, new opportunities, and we can choose this instead of what the lost within us chooses..... Fear. A Child lost is a Child who deserves so much better in life than the scorn from from its own self. As I walk through my own valley of loosing my Label, economic changes, and still working to create the very best for our Readers and Supporters, this song encourages me and I hope it will encourage you. 

You can see the [OFFICIAL VIDEO AD] at Striking Concept Films-Video right here on Blogger. To purchase "Face of Fear" you can go to Shade's Profile at Reverbnation and click on that cute note on her Profile under her Songs :0) feel free to become a Fan and check out our other Artists as well. Many thanks for ALL of your kind support of not only me but the other Artists represented here at the Blog. Special thanks to Jerry Banberger and Katie and James Fairchild. And many thanks to The Heretic- Snordelhans, who originally inspired me with this incredible visual of Fear in the artwork's child's face.

More Music By Shade Law Available at Sound Click
Direct Link to Shade's Store at Reverbnation 
DEVOTIONS RECORDING "Timeless" ARTISTS AT ITunes 

Blanket the World With Love

The third and final production with Nancy B and myself is now complete. I would like to write about what keeps love going when your world seems to be falling apart. You see yesterday wasn't a good day. After the Government decided to take out $300.00 from my social security to pay for Medicare well I had to shut down the label at Reverbnation.Ahhhhh but I am no idiot, this is exactly why I backlinked to these fine Artists Profiles at Reverbnation and very little to the Label itself.

Face it Love is just weird sometimes. A lot is required to get up everyday and continue this silent work. This visual array. This emotional roller coaster of succeeding and maybe not succeeding can be draining. Ahhhhhh but when one does tap into the one-ness of the Love that keeps Art going no matter what.... then Friendships arrive at what they should be. Countries will arrive at responsible leaders. And the real starvation of the soul will end. 

This Journey started with a song.... "Gun Cocked and Loaded." which then fell into "Steps in Preventing Suicide" [part1] I was a bit unhinged when the air conditioning went out and then right in the middle of "Beyond The Wave" [part2] my Pay-Pal and Chase were attacked. Yet the work gets done, is it Love???? Yes it is. Almost at the end of "Blanket the World With Love" [part3] the Gov plays games with my money.  Does it hurt to shut down part of your heart, you bet it does, closing Devotions Recording at Reverbnation really hurt. But Love will carry me out of this. Yesterday I received a really cool gift from Noise Flower... a song written for me. I think she actually caught my soul, you see I am one of the few that can actually live in utter darkness and still find beauty in it.  That's what the Flower caught. I want to thank everyone who has stood with me during these dark times. Because it won't be dark for much longer, not with this heart, and not with this mind's vision.

BLESSINGS AND THANK YOU ALL
FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

Music By Shade Law Available at Sound Click

Noise Flower

Guitar Center's Drum-Off '12 with Devotions Recording Artist Noise Flower as one of the Judges

One of the most spectacular events is coming up soon. The 2012 Guitar Drum-Off Competition is happening with hundreds of Drummers from around the nation will compete in this famed competition. 

 

On August 1, 2012 -  you need to Sign up now! This nationwide search for the top undiscovered drummer in the country is back for its 24th year, and here is what you have to do! Head into your local Guitar Center to sign up for your chance to win a grand prize worth over $50,000 and the coveted title of Guitar Center's 2012 Drum-Off champion. The grand prize includes $25,000 cash, a custom drum kit, complete set of cymbals, drumheads, and sticks, endorsement deals, a deluxe Shure drum mic pack, TD-30 electronic kit & SPD-SX from Roland, a 2013 NAMM VIP experience, and more. 

Sign up for one of the prelims happening on September 11th, September 18th, or September 25th. There are only 10 spots per store and they fill up quick so don't wait, sign up now! Be sure to take a look around at the site for details on how the competition works, the official rules, and prizing, plus videos and photos from past grand finals events. And now here is the exciting news about one of our Artists in regards to this amazing event.

Our own Noise Flower is going to be one of the Judges for this entire event! I just wish to say as the Founder of Devotions Recording.... WE ARE SO DAMN PROUD OF YOU from the Founder to your Peers!!!  YOU GO GIRL!!!

We wish all of the Drummers participating Good Luck and the Host of this amazing event Guitar Center and it Sponsors loads of success!!!!

Please check out Guitar Centers Video Ad on Striking Concept-Films-Video Blog.

The Possessed car alarm Key fob By Dave-Lee Zaelon

ZAELON

Picture this, it’s 4am, the alarm clock rings, you pick it up and throw it across the room, as you do every morning and it lands on the floor still ringing, it’s time to go to work, you walk across the room, pick the clock up, turn it off and set it down on the bedside table, you walk to the window draw the curtains and look out, to find it’s raining cats and dogs.

You know this because of the meowing and the barking as they go past, to land on the ground with a howl.

Oh you have to be joking!

With this you think, it’s going to be a strange day, you go into the bathroom, lather your face pick up your razor and have a shave, then you wash your face and get soap in your eyes, you immediately bend down to pick up the towel off the rail and bang your head on the bathroom cabinet above, with a howl and cursing the cabinet you wipe the soap out of your eyes and off your face, while turning and stubbing your toe on the toilet bowl, you hop around the bathroom like a kangaroo, swearing and shouting, you hobble back into the bedroom, cursing and get dressed.

You go downstairs to the kitchen to make breakfast, you decide to have toast with coffee, while making the coffee the toast begins to burn, you grab the toast out of the toaster, burning your fingers as you throw it into the bin.

It’s now 4:45am, you grab your car key fob and keys, wincing with the pain of burnt fingers, go out to your car and press the Key fob to unlock the car, the doors unlock and immediately the car alarm goes off, you press the fob again to silence the alarm, it stops, then starts again, you press it again and it stops, you get in, put the key in the ignition, turn the key, the engine fails to start and the alarm goes off, again, pressing the key fob stops the alarm and proceeds to lock all the doors while you’re in the car and can’t get out, you panic and press the fob again to unlock the doors, the doors unlock and yes, the alarm goes off, it’s now 5:00am and lights are being switched on in the houses along the road, you try frantically to turn it off, at last it stops, you turn the key again and the engine starts, you breathe a sigh of relief and start to move off into the middle of the road and yes, the alarm goes off again and the engine stops. You grab the fob and start pressing it, all the doors lock; it’s now 5:15am.

But now you’re stuck in the middle of the road not being able to move and half the road is up and out wondering what the racket is, one of your neighbors comes over to your car, he’s built like a gorilla, you gingerly wind your window down he snarls “FIX IT” you explain what is wrong and he snatches the key fob from you and presses it, the doors unlock and the alarm stops, you get out and stand there in bewilderment and thank your neighbor, with a growl he turns and walks away.

The life span of a golf ball - What Would It Feel Like If

ZAELON

By: ZAELON

There are times when Shade is doing a lot behind the scene, she's in the process of healing from heatstroke and dealing with some financial issues that a "key logger" caused to her Pay-Pal and CHASE accounts, so she asked me to write some humorous stuff..... I like writing these interesting antidotes about inanimate objects and other  "what would it fell like if...?"  What can I say, this is the best Label to be with, and I will do what I can do to help our Founder. Sooooo, As promised, the golf ball story, enjoy.

Help

I'm round, I sit nice and quiet in a box, then I get picked up and put on top of something, then I get struck with something which sends me through the air at terrific speed, I land and then roll along for a while, then I get hit again and land in a hole. What am I?

I'll save you

I'm a bloody golf ball, who sits in a box nice and quiet, doing no harm to anyone, then some neanderthal comes along, puts me on what is called a tee and beats my brains in with a club, I then travel 2,3,400 yards at high speed with my skull crushed, landing with a jolt and rolling a few yards getting dizzy and sick, then I get a headache when I'm hit again with another club, just to land in a hole full of water, where I drown.

Grrrr Must Win!

Tell me what harm did I ever do to you ham-fisted golfers.

I sit nice and quiet in a nice warm box, doing no harm to anyone and you lot come along and beat the living shit out of me, then drown me to death.

All in the name of golf........why?

PS: I've put it through spell check, just in case Cait reads it lol

New Video from Knight productions4 Music By Shade Law

FULL ARTICLE AT STRIKING CONCEPT.    Music By Shade Law Available at Sound Click

Major depressive disorder

Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods.

True clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for weeks or longer.

 

Symptoms

Depression can change or distort the way you see yourself, your life, and those around you. People who have depression usually see everything with a more negative attitude. They cannot imagine that any problem or situation can be solved in a positive way. Symptoms of depression can include:

• Agitation, restlessness, and irritability
• Becoming withdrawn or isolated
• Difficulty concentrating
• Dramatic change in appetite, often with weight gain or loss
• Fatigue and lack of energy
• Feelings of hopelessness and helplessness
• Feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, and guilt
• Loss of interest or pleasure in activities that were once enjoyed
• Thoughts of death or suicide
• Trouble sleeping or too much sleeping

Depression can appear as anger and discouragement, rather than feelings of sadness. If depression is very severe, there may also be psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions. Depression is difficult to live with especially when one feels isolated, having dealt with depression for years myself, Music and Films have been my sole retreat and my best friend many times. One of the works that's in the hopper is a Film called "Preventing Suicide" from Knight Productions, the song below will be part of it's score for the short Film. It will take me a bit to get that one out, so bear with me I'm not in the best of moods so to say. For now here is the Song "Gun Cocked and Loaded."

Devotions Recording - What Makes It Work - Is Talent [OFFICIAL COMMERCIAL]

DEVOTIONS RECORDING ARTISTS LINKS:

SHADE LAW Founder/Musician,

BEATMISTRESSCAIT

ANDREW SKELTON

NOISE FLOWER

ZAELON

RYO UTASATO

P ERIC BAILEY

MIKE HEARTMAN

JACKI SONG 

MARK HOEVET

THE HERETIC- SNORDELHANS

DANZ DMA 

FRANK WEYZIG

 SOME WORK FEATURED HERE

DEVOTIONS RECORDING AT REVERBNATION

Beatmistresscait the Personification of Perfect Sound

Beatmistresscait is one of the most prolific Artist on the Devotions Recording Label, with over 200 songs she consistently puts out stunning Soundtrack-Dance and Jazz  work. Cait is a sheer inspiration to Striking Concept Films and Knight Productions - Social Concerns Films. Her perfect Sounds come from her studio in Ireland and her Production base is Ableton. With a huge Sound Library Beatmistresscait traverses through her Ableton,  to consistently and professionally mix her world of perfect pitch, sound, and music. When Striking Concept Films-Video reaches out to other high level Independent Film Makers like FEED THE FIRE FILMS or The Heretic- Snordelhans to ask them to share their footage clips, we want only the best Music and Production of that Music to lead the story in our Short Films. There is so much going on in the world today, that even Striking Concept Films-Video is concerned. Jodie and I took a break from making advertising Videos for Devotions Recording and decided to share this Short Film with Beatmistresscait's song entitled:

"Nobody Wants to Trip Anymore" You see, that's the problem with the world, folks are trippin. Truth be said, it's nothin but a power grab, where the rich get richer and the poor get more poor. It's the height of the hate ball getting bigger instead of smaller, the height of greed gone mad, and the height of divisiveness going so out of control that Love is having a hard time revealing itself. Now is the time for folks to wake up, wake up and let Love take over before we all loose ourselves completely along with everything we Cherish and hold dear to our hearts... You can hear "Nobody Wants to Trip Anymore" and see the Short Film at Striking Concept's Blog.  

 

For now check this out by: Beatmistresscait.