Showing posts with label Jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazz. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

Cyclub CD Artwork

World Mother Japan
by Rosa Phoenix

Cyclub just released their new CD, Shining in Da Sun, and my artwork is on the cover!

This is what the cover looks like:

 
You can listen to samples, and buy music here:  CYCLUB "SHINING IN DA SUN"

I really hope you will give them a listen, and if you are ever in the San Francisco Bay Area, their live shows are an incredible experience!

I met Cyclub's founder, Junko Suzuki Parsons, in San Francisco in 2009. She really admired my painting "World Mother." I also loved her music, and we became friends.

Junko is an extraordinary person. She is from Japan, and has been an anti-nuclear energy activist for many years.

When we met, she spoke to me with great concern about the dangers of nuclear radiation in Japan. Her mission has been to educate people, through music and art, to choose healthier alternatives.
After last years' earthquake and tsunami, and Fukushima disaster, Junko helped to organize a number of San Francisco Bay Area benefit events to help the victims of the tragedy. She wrote the songs for this CD with Japan in her mind and heart.

When Junko asked me if my painting "World Mother" could be the CD artwork, I was deeply honored.

I created a special version of "World Mother" showing Japan especially for this CD.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy Birthday Satchmo!




































American Jazz legend Louis Armstrong celebrated his birthday on July 4. He never even knew that his true birthdate was August 4, 1901.

I visited the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York, where I took a wonderful intimate tour through the home of Louis and his wife Lucille. 

Interspersed with funny anecdotes of "Pops" you can hear snippets of the many tape recordings he made in the house, filled with impromptu trumpet playing and casual conversations with friends.

Here's something Louis Armstrong and I have in common: collage-making

He made a collaged cover for every recording he made.

I completed this portrait of "Satchmo" on July 4, 2008. 

Just in time to celebrate!