Woo hoo!...I have just finished my first album 'Soul Tripping'!
My name is Maz Mazák and yes it's been a Soul Trip for sure!
As I have been quoted:
“This album comes from a very deep place and hopefully not only will people want to move and groove to it, but find solace in the words and emotions behind it.”
The book 'The Artist's Way' written by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryon has had a huge influence on me. It focuses on living your life as an Artist authentically and believing you can actually be an artist and make a living. It deals alot with unblocking the crap that comes with growing up and past conditioning and focuses you on being true to your yourself. Sounds deep!...IS deep! I like Deep! lol! Through reading it and doing the 12 week course by myself, it changed my life BIGTIME! It really helped me shape this album. I had done heaps of gigs singing others songs. I knew the style I loved and had heaps of melodies and words pouring out of me but couldn't quite put it altogether. The Artist's Way made me see things in a new way....I did songwriting workshops, attended music seminars, went to the US 4 times for music conferences and to songwrite, met up with people and listened to their stories, found an Awesome producer 'No Qualms'...all these things a direct result from doing the exercises of self discovery throughout the book.
I also set a Goal - it went something like this - "I choose to make an album that is cool, contemporary, commercial, soulful and with substance."
I really feel I have achieved this.
Quote: “‘Soul Tripping’ is a collection of my stories about love, loss, lust and having the courage to be yourself'"
It's such a spin-out how much a book can change your life. Anyone out there read 'The Artist's Way' and been affected like me? Be cool to hear from you.
Also, I've got another book title to share - an 11th hr gift - it came just before I was finalising my artwork for 'Soul Tripping', I will reveal this in my next blog!
One more time....Woo hoo!....Album Finito!!
Maz...:):)
Cool Quote:
'Leap & the net will appear' ...Zen Saying
