Pledge HERE!!! 23 January 2012
Thunderbirds are GO!!!! 7 January 2012
Visit my Orchestra Kickstarter Campaign now, and I’ll love you!
We’ve reached the very MINIMUM TARGET in under two days!!!! This is amazing!!!
But… this is just the beginning, this is where it starts to get exciting!!!
Every penny will go towards more and more songs being recorded with the orchestra, with each song costing around $3,000 to record. So your pledge is truly appreciated if the album’s gonna get done!!!
This is not charity! This is an old-fashioned patronage model where I pledge to create music, and the patrons (that’s you!) get to enjoy this work of beauty and also get cool stuff!
THANK YOU FOR PLEDGING and sharing this link with your music-loving friends xxxx
xx Ysanne
Exciting announcement soon! 13 December 2011
Hello, and a brief update, dear strings-lovers…
I’M GOING TO ANNOUNCE SOMETHING BIG ON FRIDAY JANUARY 6TH at 10 p.m. PST
Meanwhile, I was in the studio with Public Image Limited’s Mark Schultz last week, and I’m excited to be back in the studio this week with the very fabulous Alain Whyte (Morrissey etc).
Okay, that’s it for now, and Happy Holidays!
Ysanne xoxo
Silver for Gold 18 November 2011
Very excited about David J‘s multimedia song cycle, Silver for Gold, which will be running for five nights at the Walt Disney Concert Hall building’s theatre, the REDCAT. I shall be playing viola and violin, and stylistically, the music is inspired in part by the Velvet Underground, with my viola making a deferential nod to John Cale.
Actually, I’m not the only one who’s excited.
Read The Los Angeles Times preview here.
( it’s going to be a m a z i n g )
Twilight tour 12 November 2011
Left to right:
Charlie Bewley (Demitri), me, Jackson Rathbone (Jasper), Christina Perri, Ashley Greene (Alice), John Hanson, Nikki Reed (Rosalie)
And here is a clip of Christina Perri performing her song, ‘A Thousand Years’ with me on cello and John Hanson on guitar. It’s at the House of Blues, Chicago.
Bitten 4 November 2011
Photo credit: Joseph Corsentino
I am off and away on a private jet with Atlantic Records artist Christina Perri and friends, including the entire Cullen vampire clan from the new Twilight movie!
Christina’s vampire love song, A Thousand Years is featured in ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.’ We’ll play this song and more of her beautiful love songs for Twi-hards and music-lovers all over the US.
My cello and I feel so honoured to be a part of this tour. I love Christina’s songs, they are so emotional and yearning and sumptuous for my strings. And I’m a true Twi-hard too, can’t wait to see ‘Breaking Dawn,’ even more so after our exquisite show last night at Summit Entertainment’s party at the Hotel Bel-Air. More vampires in the audience than usual, and pretty much everyone in Hollywood, including Kevin Bacon and his beautiful wife, Kyra Sedgwick.
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When I return I shall play with the Original Vampire, David J, who I believe inspired the naming of the Twilight saga heroine, Bella, with one of the many classic songs he has written, ‘Bela Lugosi Is Dead.’
His play with music, ‘Silver For Gold,’ will be staged at the REDCAT in L.A’s silvery Walt Disney Concert Hall building, and I shall play strings of many kinds, inspired in part by John Cale. We’ve been looking forward to this for so long, and now it’s nearly here!
David J’s new album is out now on Billy Corgan and Kerry Brown’s Starry Records and Saint Rose. It’s called ‘Not Long For This World’ and I’m playing strings on many of the songs.
Also, David’s made a super limited edition of 12 gatefold vinyl albums featuring an exquisite original artwork, one for each song.
So much going on, but must go, got a plane to catch!
Beauty from David J 29 October 2011
David J has created 12 new extraordinary artworks, one for every song on his new album, ‘Not Long For This World.’ They will be included in 12 very special collector’s editions of the album.
Not Long For This World 26 October 2011
We’re getting ready for David J’s Gothic Soiree, which will be broadcast LIVE worldwide via the interwebs on Sunday October 30th from 8 p.m. til 11 p.m. PST (or starting at 4 a.m. in London!)
David J’s eagerly awaited new album is coming out on Tuesday November 1. It’s co-released on Billy Corgan and Kerry Brown’s record label, Starry Records, and on Saint Rose Records, a boutique label based at the Last Record Store in Santa Rosa, CA.
David has created an album of beauty that is surprisingly uplifting considering the subject, which is a collection of songs about death. The musicians include Michael Berg, Susan Constantini, Tony Green and my strings are to be heard on many of his songs.
Check it out at Starry Records
Also take a look at this lovely piece of press about it that features footage of an intimate private event we played a few weeks ago.
Christina Perri Official ‘A Thousand Years’ Video 18 October 2011
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A Thousand Years… 17 October 2011
Official LYRICS video. That’s all I’m saying for now…
