"I sound like Blondie and Bowie's jazzy love child, if they had one."
"You sing to eternal desires. Inviting all to your lucid trance. A few listeners may thoughtfully comment. Most are compelled to dance." --Jay Greathouse http://jaygreathouse.com
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Check out my new virtual press kit!
Clara singing Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombone on the San Francisco Bay, video by Ed Jones. You can also rate my video on YouTube!
And a brand new video by Ed Jones of part of my song "Potential Criminal" is on youtube!
Hello Music Angels!
The year is speeding by, actually it's coming to an end. What a year it has been: stressful for as majority of us, full of conflicts around the world...I'm hoping 2012 continues to bring a shift in human consciousness, we don't have to wait for systems not to work for 99.5% of the population to all be clear we need to rectify our course. There will always be those with unquenchable greed, but we as people have the power, and we can add to each others lives.
2012 is going to be a very busy year for me and the musician friends in my band. We are gearing up to release my new album. Recording it was the easy part. Getting it out there to bless and tickle the ears and hearts of as many of you as possible is another story. But it is coming together. The CD has 3 videos on it, and I think you're going to love it.
* Check out my latest blog about booking an acting job on Steve Soderbergh's feature film "Contagion" opposite Laurence Fishburne! here:
http://clarabellino.com/blog.html
*Friday July 2nd 2010 was a very special day. And the beginning of the recording of my new CD: my friend Bobby Sharp (Unchain My Heart) and I went to Fantasy Studios in Berkeley where he recorded the piano track for a song he wrote in 1947 and gave me to release. Being at Fantasy Studios while listening to Bobby play the 12 foot concert grand was a treat. I hadn't anticipated how happy it would make him! The song is gorgeous. Pictures of that day are in the Gallery.
*The CD is now mastered, the artwork by San Francisco artist Wendy Wright - http://www.wendy-wright.com/html - is in. It's an enhanced CD and includes 3 videos edited by my talented sax playing producer friend Lincoln Adler. Two music videos and one behind the scenes with Bobby Sharp documentary. A Big Thank You to Fantasy Studios Director Jeffrey Wood for introducing me to the producer team of this upcoming release: Greg Sankovich and Lincoln Adler. They're both very talented great folks and musicians as well as producers, and it's been great fun working with them! The very talented Adam Muñoz recorded and mixed all tracks @ Fantasy Studios. The CD was mastered by Ken Lee, "mastering the world one CD at a time!" @ Ken Lee Mastering in Oakland, CA. Street date is March 2012. It'll be limited edition hard copy release.
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*My song: "Pounding Nails Into The Sky" and my first CD, "Flying Monkey" are now available for download on CD Baby here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/clarabellino
*If you sign onto my mailing list -at the top of this page- you can also download "Peaceful Solution", mentioned below.
*Good news and thanks to Liz at WNPRI, my song Peaceful Solution and the story behind it is featured on Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute website homepage. Check it out and if you feel so inclined leave a comment:
http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/7523/peaceful-solution-clara-bellino.html
Thanks for visiting my webgarden.Your comments are welcome always. Check out the blog too!
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*RIP Johnny Downer 12/4/09, was in the North Marin band Free Peoples, played 12 string on my last CD. I was impressed with his talent and how genuine he was. My heart goes out to his family and close friends. To hear the song where he played 12 string and sang back-ups click on the Listen page and find "Come And Stay With Me" . RIP with the Angels Johnny.
*Check out new reviews and podcasts on Press/Reviews pages: for Podcast Across America and The Mental Nomad Show, as well as CD reviews by Gita Tewari from Feminist Review and Andrea Guye of Mossip.
*Cool T-shirts are in, under "Products" page. New ones are on the way.
**Part of "Potential Criminal" is in a film by Nayantara Pais-Caputi, co-written with Gino Caputi: "DCBA - Desi Confused By America", about a young Indian woman adjusting to her life in New York. Check out this charming hopeful short film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM5k-Y7q_08
**Let us know if we can play for you for an event, a charity, a party. And any constructive thought provoking or not, interesting NICE thoughts you have to share.
**Pictures from numerous past shows are in the Gallery. including Paris 2008 showcase at Total Music with guitarist Michael Zurita and international singer Laurence Barma. Google: clara bellino, and a video will show up under "Total Music".
**On "Embarcadero Love": bassist Rustee Allen (The Rustee Nails, Bobby Womack / Sly and The Family Stone) and keyboardist Jimi Mc Kinney (Lenny Williams / The Commodores) are on board. Named after the Oakland, CA., "Embarcadero Cove", the marina where I lived during the sessions, the disk was mixed by Johannes Luley ("http://www.mysonictemple.com">mysonictemple) and mastered by John Cuniberti (plantstudios) at the Sausalito Record Plant. All art photography on CD is published and copywritten by the late and great Chet Helms, (digfotos). For each CD you purchase from CDBaby, $1.00 is donated to Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco through the "Chet Helms' Life Celebration Fund".The cover art is by David Singer. Enjoy the tour. Get messy. Peace and music, Clara & Co. 
Whether you're in France or the U.S. on February 5, 2012, you can come to my show; I'll be playing my first online show. You do need a computer, or a friend with a computer! I'm playing at 11:30 am California time (PST), which is 8:30 pm French time.
Get your ticket here: http://www.stageit.com/clara_bellino/new_year_show_1/6567
TBA when Clara will be performing
Book Launch and Cavalcade of Stars for Ericka Lutz's novel The Edge of Maybe.
7pm at Stagewerx Theater on Valencia/16th.
Tickets will be available in advance: $25 includes a copy of the signed book, $15 without the book. More opportunities to buy the book inside.
A fun event celebrating "The Edge of Maybe." Musicians, jugglers, dancers, storytellers, poets, solo perfomers -- the best of the Bay Area including Joe Klocek, Clara Bellino, Joe Loya, Lisa Marie Rollins, Coke Nakamoto, Sara Felder, Bruce Pachtman, Alison Luterman, Ira Marlowe and many more... plus a reading by the author.