Filed under: Diaries, Just A Crash | Tags: American Beauty, Cyanna, Electron, Fairytale of One, Faith No More, JAC, James, Just A Crash, Kevin Spacey, Lil Story, Midlife Crisis, On And On, Sam Mendes, Say Something, Shine, TV Nation
In the first part of this blog about the Just A Crash album facts and trivia, I mentioned a few films that were in our heads when we wrote the songs. One more song that is somehow related to a movie is the album’s second song, ‘Electron’. In the first few seconds of the track a female voice speaks the words “I wanna live a real life”. 
This is a line taken from American Beauty by Sam Mendes (leading actor Kevin Spacey’s line in particular), an incredible script with a strong statement about contemporary America and the Western -decaying- society in general. The soundtrack was magnificient too. Another fact about ‘Electron’ is that it was originally written in greek back in 2006. Maybe someday we will release that version too. Or maybe not.
Enough with the films. Some more non-film trivia about the songs of JAC: (more…)
Filed under: Diaries, Just A Crash, Making Music | Tags: Achilles, Adamantia, Better Not, Cage of Anger, Cyanna, Electron, Fairytale of One, Highway Exit, Innocence, Lil Story, Louie, Music Day, Nick Sid, On And On, Paranoid GF, Prive Tattoo, SCA studio, Spyreas
-Forgive me father for i have sinned. Its been too long since my last confession and my sins are starting to feel heavy on my back..
I havent made peace with myself yet father. I create to be loved but no love is returned. People are cruel father. People will stare. People wont love you for the words that you say. Am i vain father?
A whole album almost ready. In August we get into SCA studio for the final recordings and mix. I’ve been wiriting lyrics like crazy the past two months. Thnk God for the last 4 gigs in April and June, pushed us so much further into our musical subconscious.. Nick has written the best music he’s written in years this month and since Louie joined the band in the end of March, the sound feels more solid than ever. I am currently doing some test vocal recordings at at home and so is Louie with Nick for the guitars. Just to name a few titles from the new album: “Done B”, “Fairytale of One”, “Better Not, “Highway Exit”, “Lil Story”, “Electron”, “Paranoid GF”, “On and On”, “Innocence” and some more.. maybe we’ll upload one or two demos of these tracks on myspace soon, just to get an idea and keep the flame burning..
Meanwhile I gotta send a huge thnq to our photographers Achilles and Adamantia, Jason for the incredible body painting he did on me at the Music Day Festival (Prive Tattoo), Teo at SCA studio for the constant sound treatments, our beloved incrdible beautiful manager Nat, Amanda and Chara for photos and videos, Jojo for being Jojo, Dianne for the words and all our friends for their support, understanding and love these last months..
Cyanna – Cage of Anger Live @ Music Day Fest 23.06.06 (demo clip)
-Have you regretted son?
No father..not yet..
by Spyreas
Filed under: Diaries, Just A Crash, Making Music | Tags: Cyanna, Electron, Fairytale of One, Lil Story, On And On
So its like we got two gigs in the next two weeks and we are crackin to get everythin ready for y’all..
The set is now more than 1 hour of Cyanna’s electronic rockin beats.
We’ve added 4 brand new tracks the last month (“Electron”, “Fairytale of One”, “Lil’ Story” and “On and On”), something that makes these gigs quite interesting and challenging to us.. Dont miss out 
Some nice trivia for the 4 new tracks:
- Electron features greek lyrics, the first in more than 2 years..
- Fairytale’s lyrics started off as a poem by Amy and me back in 2002 thru daily emails..
- On and On is kinda like a tribute to one of our favourite bands of all time.. it features 15” of one of that band’s greatest moments..
- Lil Story is actually just the second part of a trilogy to be completed soon. The full title would be: “Lil Story II – My Song”.
Secret: This time on stage with us a new old face..:)
Filed under: Diaries, Making Music | Tags: Cyanna, E-babe, Fingers Crossed, Like Fire, Lil Story, Pro-Tools, Remembrance, SCA studio, The Dubrovniks, The Hammer, Vita [Hey You], Yannos
Last week i began reporting from the studio..since that entry is in greek, for the non-greek readers just a quick heads up:
Since Friday the 21st of October we have started the recordings of our second full album. The first two tracks being produced right now are ‘E-babe’ and ‘Like Fire’. Yannos of Fingers Crossed has recorded the guitars and trust me..the sound is blasting!! We are back to our rock/metal roots with the electro beats pumping harder than ever!!
Anyway..On Monday we completed the vocal recording and now, I am ready to take on my Pro-Tooling sessions. This Sunday i am starting off with ‘E-babe’ and next week ‘Like Fire’. Btw ‘Like Fire’ has been our favourite cover song for more than 3 yrs.. the funny part is that we still dont have the original version in any form!!! 3 yrs ago when we began doing this track live I listened to it for 2 or 3 times just to get the idea of how the melody and the rhythm was..even the guitars are different, not to mention the fact that the original version (by The Dubrovniks) was not electro 
hehe so i guess it’s going to be an interesting sound to those familiar to the original version because we did not keep many things unchanged.. What has been kept the same is definately the energy of the song which is totally haunting i admit.
After these two songs we are planning to continue right away with the next ones..only thing we dont know which they are going to be.. just to name a few titles: “War [this is]“, “Rememberance”, “Vita”, “Lil’ Story”, “The Hammer” and a couple more unnamed yet..
we’ll see..
Meanwhile i’ve almost completed version 4.9 of the official website.. it will kick in sometime this weekend i hope, so keep your eyes clicked..or whatevah.
“..You walk with me – with your hips swingin’ like a chandelier..”
