Spank Holiday Weekend……

SPANK! I was working the door for a party called Black Rabbit on Sunday and Monday.. as in “If youre names not down u aint comin in” kinda door and it was EPIC.  met some lovely lovely people and heard some amazxing tunes, only prob being I was stuck out by the door with my little table and chair and clipboard while all outr mates were avin it in the club on the outside terrace dancefloor!! It was hard not to get itchy dancing feet but my man was there to lend a bit of muscle should things of gotten out of hand, (and they nearly did once or twice) made the most out of enjoying a fag with a glass of rose and coffee, because i knew i was close to the end of that.

Finally clocked off at about 11ish but was waaayyy too knackered to party. Home for joint and bed please

Speaking of which…….

Dear Marlborough Lights, Our toxic love affair has gone on for too long. Its not you, its me, I need to change and I cant do this while you are still in my life. You cost me way too much money and I gain nothing in return, thanks for the social lubricancy, but ive had enough of the coughing and the smell. all the best, Zoe

I’ve eaten my bodyweight in nuts and cupcakes, so I am going to walk 2 and a half miles to see my lovely Jazabel to go to a Santigold gig

I filled out all my NHS ‘smoke free’ pamphlets- i can honestly say they are helping. Lets just hope i dont get smashed tonight and succumb. I want to buy myself nice holidays and clothes and save up for a villa in ibiza, not sytematically destroy myself while paying thru the nose for the privilige!

I also made for my man potato dalphinoise with chicken breast wrapped in bacon and honey stir fried asapragus. fuck yeah.  I also made a  cherry tomato, chorizo and haloumi puff pastry tarte served with fresh italian salad. Nigella I am ONTO you. Gonna crack on with the red velvet cupcakes next. Next stop…… Perfect Housewifedom (just have to remember to put my clothes BACK when I’m done wearing them instead of on the ‘pile’ my my side of the bed.)

Ciao Xx

I predict a…….

…Productive weekend with short spells of relaxation, a chance of a new synth heavy electropop track ready for unleashing onto the world and of course, toast and butter.

Its been a while since I’ve written, given the drama of the riots and all that, but rather than spill my brains out onto the page with my ill informed opinions about how our society is tainted by bureaucratic blah blah blah I thought I’d share a new track I’ve written called Dont Need That Kinda Love… Its a about a girl who once upon a time had a boyfriend who sponged off her and gallavanted off round the world leaving her to pay all the bills and rent by herself.

I love this Nu Disco vibe: http://soundcloud.com/zoe-belucci/dont-need-that-kinda-love-1

On other news, my wonderful (grown up, non spongy) boyfriend has released a track called Complicated, I’m soooo proud of him as he’s really coming into his own as a producer and this track is really the bollox! So proud. I’m on vocals.

http://soundcloud.com/justin-ballard/complicated

We have new plug ins!! We got Rob Papen’s drum synth Punch which is rocking but I’m still figuring out how to use it, gonna crack on with the tutorials and see where we get… Also we have a wonderful little toy called Waves Tune LT, from SE. its a pitch corrector for vocals, so, if I sing a take that has all the delivery, emotion and articulation i need but one little syllable is out of tune, no drama, we fix it by running this plug in over the track itself and it rewrites it in tune- Amaze.

Other than that, not much else to report from Zoeworld, I got signed by a new model agency, Celestial Angels, who I am really looking forward to working with in the future

 http://www.facebook.com/Celestial.Angel.Models

I am also going to be in the official calendar for ILove LondonGirls.com next week! Their previous calendars have looked beautiful so I’m really happy to be involved, and get to hang out with super hot model chicks too

I also made chilli infused meatballs from scratch for the first time. Success. Next week- Rainbow cake!!!

Ciao xx

 

 

Nothing can prepare you…..

For those Ibiza Blues.  Out of Season mix finally up and kind of finished, interested to hear some feedback on this one before I decide to do any other mixes. I can hear this not being too out of place on a Beach House HedKandi compilation…. hint.

http://soundcloud.com/zoe-belucci/ibiza-blues-out-of-season-mix?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fzoe-belucci%2Fibiza-blues-out-of-season-mix

Please let me know your thoughts on this one kids!!

Since writing last me and the man took a well earned trip to digital village in Romford to acquire some new toys for the studio! New mic for me and reflector, plus a sexy new synth/midi keyboard with some very interesting presets including one by god of music production Rob Papen.. spent pretty much the whole weekend in the studio playing about with our new stuff, very exciting, already loving the results,, watch this space for evidence of collaboration (finally!)

Apart from the new toys excitement I have learnt to row a boat in Ilford, cooked a roast beef joint and the best chocolate chip muffins I have ever made (according to boyfriend) and have (through my amazing and flexible film company employer) officially now two days a week i can dedicate to making music (and they aint saturday and sunday!)

Enrolled on a Spanish course  starting in October, for when we eventually do fuck off England and its grey rain, immigration issues and fondness for queing at every possible opportunity for a siesta soaked life in the sunshine making music… I need to be prepared…  Hola Espanol!! Grazias.

Think my spanish definitely needs some work.

 

 

Cloud of Sound….

Wow, Soundcloud absolutely is rocking my world right now, (That and cruisng around London in a electric blue MGTF with the top down, the best way to get volume for lifeless hair! )

Since looking last at my page I can see people have been listening to my tracks in Mexico, Australia, America, France, Italy, Canada, Malaysia…. I wonder who they are??? I wonder if the Fosters guys from the advert have been sitting back in their hut painting bad pictures of surfer chicks with my little track playing thru their laptop? I wonder if a struggling  bohemian artist in Paris has used one of  my songs as a soundtrack to create an exquisite sculpture ???   I guess I’ll never know….Bit of a head spin but a fabulous one all the same.

Here is a link to my latest track Fell in Love with a Man (which yes, I did, very hard (BANG!!)

http://soundcloud.com/zoe-belucci/fell-in-love-with-a-man

I made this using Logic Pro 9 software and a mixture of Rob Papen synths Predator and Sub boom bass and EXS24 Synth (creaming over this right now!!) along with some drum loops already built into the Logic program, I recorded my vocals using a condenser mic on 4 different tracks with an EVOC filter, Space Designer reverb plug in on the leads and the Delay Designer plug in on the backing vocals.

I have another track to finish called Ibiza Blues, inspired by my first trip to the White Isle with my man in June 2011, I wrote it when I got back so its been sitting in my project files for over a month now, gonna have this one UP and MASTERED by the weekend.

In the meantime I will be contuining my valuable wok for the film giant I am currently employed for as a PA, and continuing to learn the fine art of baking cakes without burning the edges.

Ciao Xx

 

 

 

 

About bloody time…….!

Right, so after being prompted by several friends and a nearly disastrous meeting with a costly web developer I thought I’d take matters into my own pink polished hands and create this site….. Basically I’m not gonna bore you with details of what I had for breakfast or who I want to win the X factor, and  hope I dont sound too much like a pretentious dickhead….(one can never tell) but just use this a platform for sharing my music, photoshoots and maybe a little social commentary here and there. I’m not a big talker, I’m a writer. And I fucking love words. And taking the piss out of myself, which you will find a fair bit of on this blog. ( i also hate that word, it sounds spectacularly naff)

Lets start at the beginning…… Not the very beginning as that would take an age,  if anyone is bizzarely interested enough to see what I’ve been up to prior to July 2011 can look at my heavily populated and narcissistic facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=639500427 - see?? dreadful isnt it?

I’m a Devon girl, who in 2007 escaped the lush green countryside and small town mentality of farming town  Barnstaple to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune…. Instead I found a dead pigeon and a half drunk bottle of Gaymers. 

Quite the contrary… London town has been good to me this last year, it can be a very lonely place but recently I have never felt more at home. Mainly down to the fact I have finally found a job that doesnt involve managing 60 year old druken ex sailors diaries or handing out flyers to degenerates at 1am outside Camden tube; and I have finally found the man who i want to spend the rest of my life with…   Priceless.  All in all, I’m loving life right now, I feel blessed.

Anyhow, enough of my self indulgent shite, heres the improtant bit….

Recently I have discovered Logic Pro music production software and IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE! Bless my wonderful man, he gave me a few tutorials on the basics of production and now he cannot get me out of the studio…

“I lost my girl to Logic man…”

“It could be worse, you could of lost me to something crap like Ketamine”

Sooo, I set up a Soundcloud page and had a surprisingly positive reaction to the stuff I was making… Comments like “Can you produce more songs please? I really like them” and “Make an album” have spurred me on to keep doing what I’m doing, and share it with you all. Ok, so the last one was from my 10 year old brother, but hey kids are difficult to please these days. Down with that shit.

Here is a track called The Chase (No come down) http://soundcloud.com/zoe-belucci/the-chase-no-come-down

Your thoughts, feedback, and comments are ALL welcome…. positive or negative, I have a thick skin…I have modelling for the last 7 years to thank for that.

Ciao Xx