Kalika_

www.myspace.com/iheartKalika

10thApril 2008

Hello hello, 2 days to go until party of the year kicks off. have a 1000 little things to do and sort out but evrything feels under control!! Cant wait to play wit my band again.. i have been offered some free studio time tomorrow at a local college which is brilliant. i recorded anything in a studio for about 3 years!! i will definately upload them onto here and bang on the incentives then to get the ball re rolling again.... life is bliss at the momen. will do a reveiw of how my big night goes on sat. Hope you are all brilliant and happy too************

2nd April

I am terrible at this thing, I/m sorry. i don't have a computer so i can only check it every so often. MUST SORT OUT computer. I am not very good at sitting down for long times either--- totally hyper... Maybe this is not the thing for me... BUt it is such a good oppurtunity. I keep saying to myself just dedicate a weekend to it. UPdate the songs, the incentives, the pictures, the blog but the weekend comes and then its gone again. I don't really know why i am writing this cos it is not probs gonna get read!!! BUt i suppose i just wanted to update any passer byers. my plan is to get a working computer in the house, sort this out and then log in everyday. My band Rumjig is back together since last week and we had the most exciting rehearsal as i am organising a massive night to raise money for Action Aid. It is called BUgsy and everyone has to fufill their  childhood dream and dress up like 1930's swankster's. I love dressing up... it is the best. YOu can forget who you are and just concentrate on having as much bullshit fun as possible. Bantering rubbish is definatly a passtime i am quite fond of...

My business is going well
 - i have set up a business being an eco cleaning fairy. So basically i bike round town (Liverpool) and do private cleaning for people using enviromentally sound products. IT is flourishing so well that there is too much business for me to take on and i have 3-4 other girls/friends who are taking on anything i can't do. It has attracted an alternative type of client which has led to other interesting projects n all. like i am doing the music for a punch and eco Judy show  and been paid to make bunting and help out a a beautiful pagan wedding!! It is great. I have never been so fit and mentally positive. I have also started going to a buddhist centre every week and this is majorly increasing my contemplating and happiness levels. IT is a very interesting concept more of a philosophy than a religion. there is so much stigma attach to religion that i find it hard to call it that. Buddha is a  complete wholehearted dude. an all loving , logical, all giving, meaningful happy happy happy happy happy enlightened being. NIce one!!1!! I want to become more like him.

So anyway this has all kept me very busy all Winter so i have had no energy to put into my music. but now i have a sound way of earning cash and am practically debt free - after this BUgsy night i should have alot more time to and energy to put into this. Thanks to anyone reading this and good luck if you an artist. I wish you love, the giggles and 3 lush meals everyday!!!!! Take it easy until next time Wu HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

11th nov just went on a session rooting round other artists on here the talent is amazing. i can't wait to get my business on the go to support all these people...... sellaband is amazing. i love it- sellaband it up, fell the love, the lyrical speils and rhythmical deals spurning out from beautiful people and energy all over the world. Music msuic music music music music music music music music music music music music music music is the sweetest thing, the best healer, icebreaker, soul feeder, sway-nod-ya-head-tap that toe teaser...............#';,.'@@@@@@@@.';>:@@@:.::@>   

2nd November- playing a charity gig for ACTION AID one of my favourite charity's. Lounge Bar, Chorlton, Manchester some time after 9. I will be playing with my band RUMJIG and we wanna be setting the place on fire with energy, fun and lust for life- come down get around the fire and dance baby. dance****

HELLO HELLO... I AM BACK FROM THE SUMMER AND NEARLY READY TO GET RIGHT INTO THIS THING... I DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER SO THAT IS MY PROBLEM BUT BARE WITH ME AND THINGS I PROMISE WILL GET LOADS MORE EXCITING- MORE SONGS, PRIZES TO WIN AND PARTS BOUGHT!! OH YEAH HOLD TIGHT MUSIC LOVERS AND FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD********

Woop woop!!!!!! This Sella band thing is absolutely marvellous. What a boss idea?!! Can’t believe such a boss idea exists. Well up for backing it up and squeezing in….

if you have any appreciation for real music, biglove,  mind dissolving art, gritty raw talent, beautiful nature,
the exquisite oddessy of
life,painful laughing, colour, silly dancing, adventure of excitement, and dressing up like pirates-
 then believe in me, support in me and
i will translate it all as sensationally as possible!!!!

Right well - I’m Kalika….full name Julia kalika Gordon…kalika = goddess of time or a bud

Where do you start when you write these things? I  was gonna give a brief lowdown of my background and highlight the highs and the lows to date but think that could prove to be quite boring and well the music is a translation of  most thing’s that has happened anyway.

Mum always forced me to play an instrument form the age of 5. (thanks mum!!). I played the piano till I was 13, but the arguing regarding the half an hour practice I had to do a day drove us both wild so for a change I picked up the clarinet. The clarinet thing lasted a mere 3 months due to teacher reasons. This lead me to my first singing teacher Pam hart. She was an opera singer. After 3 years of great training with her I decided my voice was becoming to pure/ warberly and realised I was way more interested in experimenting with the old vocal chords with jazz.

When I went up to Manchester to do and HND in Music Performance I got new teacher who was a jazz singer called Debbie Allen. She was exceptional. Like my own personal   Yoda (star wars) vocal coach. Would recommend her any day if you live in Manchester.

 At the age of 15 I was in my last year of high school when I wrote my first song. Me and my friends had to devise some form of play for our Drama GCSE exam. WE devised a wee play called ‘Rock Legends’.

The concept behind the play was for 5 rock legends to each come out one by one, perform a song and in between and at the end chat about specific topics. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell (who I played), Bob Marley (more of a reggae legend, than rock legend) and Dolly Parton (don’t really know how we came to the conclusion of her rock status but anyway… hehe). The reason I am telling you about this play is because it’s this play that made me pick up the guitar and write my first song. My drama teacher (the famous Mr Lynch) taught me 4 chords- G, Em, C and D so I could learn how to play ‘I will always love you’ by Dolly (these are the simplest chords ever!!) . That night I was so excited by my new found backing with these chords I wrote my first song. I wrote it because… that day… Rudi – my best mate at the time (who played John Lennon in the play) had been asked to be part of a band at school. This had made me furiously jealous as I wanted to play in a band but they never asked me. So guess what t my first song was called?   Correct - ‘Jealousy’, about jealousy. This is not a song I play much anymore. Apart for when I want a laugh because of it’s great country n western/ Natalie Imbruglia esque-ness…..ever since then I have written over 30 songs about things that have happened during this mental little life of mine (so far)……Songs inspired by moments relating to paranoia, 3rd world culture, relationships, loosing lovely close people in my life, staying one step ahead of depression, my sister, my mother, drug abuse, philosophies, being a slag, love, being non judgemental, travel etc…………   

I moved up to Manchester as coming from a wee village in Norfolk I was desperate to find more musicians to write, jam and record with. That is where I met my swelled out brilliant band RumJiG. We lived together for 2 years (except the drummer who lived round the corner). We had a fab experimental time jamming, writing, gigging all around Manchester  although it was hard finding complimentary gigs as we were playing jazzy-funktastic-skanking into spinout drum n bass-every so often type music and (if you don’t know) Manchester it is very much  rock and indie orientated.

After 3 years of unifying into a mass of broken beats, gritty bass, squelching guitar and soulful melodies the band split due to the Bass player Ed Shred (also a fellow country bumpkin) needed to move home to sort his city eye’s out into country blessed.

At this point was when I thought- Number one….. ok the band may have split (majorly gutted… Hoping to get back together with your help) but I have all my own songs which I have not got full confidence with… and number 2 what am I still doing in this country?????

So… I impulse bought a ticket to New Zealand on my credit card and busked all around the country, hitching, meeting amazing people/ musicians, listening to great music flogging demos to survive and going on tour. With a drum’n’bass producer I met and recorded with, we devised our own  8 date ‘Ruff It UP 2005 South Island Tour’. It was a great success. We went on 2 radio shows had an amazing time travelling round the south island in peak winter. Hence.. meaning to go out to New Zealand for 6 months I ended up staying for 10 due to the tour.

I realise I have written a page an half now so should try to wrap up swiftly. I am currently living in Liverpool (wicked city) and working 50+ hours a week in 2 call centre’s. I don’t know if you have ever worked this many hours or in a call centre but it gives a new meaning to exhaustion and soul disintegration .I hear you ask WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING THAT? Well I am determined to be rid of my debts for the summer…. But this is why I need your help. I am going to waste everyday sitting in these call centre’s for banking or child support agency’s. I need help to get out and be creative, meet more magical people, write some more excellent songs- the type that make you feel blessed just to have them caress your sweet little eardrums with their life and beauty. Save me!! Please…..

I know the songs on here are not the best produced but this is why I need your support and to believe in me. Also If this works RumJIg are so getting back together…. Oh yeah!!! See above which tracks are the mass creation of Rumjig.

Right so last cry……If you have any appreciation for real music, love, art, raw talent, nature, the exquisite odyssey of life, laughing, colour, silly dancing and exciting adventure then believe in me, support me and I will translate it all as sensationally as possible!!!!!

Ps I have always hated the thought of being a salesman but actually when it’s the truth it’s damn easy!!!!