>Musical Week.

>I hope you are all doing well, I have some cool musical news for ya today, including up coming gigs + I’m learning a new cover song!

Monday Apr/18:
I got an email from Mr. Jackson M’vunganyi of Voice of America, & he sent me a link to the edited video version of my interview with him that I did in November 2010, you can watch it here if you like. And you can find the original audio in the (Press) section.

Tuesday Apr/19:
I have a few personal errands & then a musical meet up with my international musical partners of crime

Wednesday Apr/20:
t3N play at The Point in Fells.
Free show, starts at 10pm.
This is the 1st of our monthly “In-t3N-se Sessions” series, in which we will be having through out the area this summer.
Come and enjoy the evening with us.

Thursday Apr/21:
I have my 12-2 gig at Potbelly’s (519 Pratt St.)
Then a writing session
Then hitting Rob of ilyAIMY‘s new Underground Open Mic at Six Mile Coffee.
*FUN FACT*
I’ve learnt an Elvis Presley cover for next month’s challenge at this new open mic. You should TOTALLY come and check it out, its going to be AWESOME.

Friday Apr/22:
The Fluffy Arab Tour @ Teavovle.
Free show, 8pm-10pm
Featuring: Sahffi, Khaled (all the way from NYC), Me with FULL band.

This weekend, I’m invited to a Jam, have rehearsal, & will try to see my good friends Nelly’s Echo play in Federal Hill.

So as you can see, I’m doing my best to stay busy.
I hope you can come out to a show some time.
Much Love.
Mosno

>The Concept Album : Post #3

>I think it is appropriate that on Post #3, I would have the good news that “Song #3″ is well on its way . I have been able to finally finish up a 1st draft of the FULL song. I’m very excited about it. & even more! I’ve started a draft for the chorus of a 4th song, the one that will deal with the “Labyrinth”, very exciting stuff.

A quick recap:
1.Land & Sea (done \ played at shows \ almost at recording stage)
2.Lost the sun (done \ started playing it)
3.Mother (have the 1st draft of full song)
4.Labyrinth (have 1st draft of chorus)

I must say, I’m starting to get very VERY excited
Things are shaping up nicely for this project.

Hopefully this bit of good news brightens your day a bit.
Have a wonderful week everyone.
Much Love.

Mosno

>This Week…

>..is going to be a INSAINE, & I can’t wait! Wohoo!.

Monday April/4:
I’m a feature at The Waterfront Hotel for the Monday Night Social Club.

Also Monday April/4:
My partner in crime Sahffi rocks out at 49 West in Annapolis with Patric McGrath & Woody Lissauer.

Tuesday April/5:
Looks like we’ll be having a t3N writing session, so new songs will be on the way for the monthly In-t3N-Se Sessions we’ll be having at Teavolve & The Point.

Wednesday April/6:
Sahffi & I (a.k.a. Sah/Mos), are the features at The Renaissance Hall in Alex, VA.
[1121 King St. Alexandria, VA] $5 cover.

Thursday April/7:
Awesome musician, & one of my cooliest housemates, Rob of ilyAIMY, starts his New Open Mic at Six Mile Coffee in Catonsville.
I’m TOTALLY there.

Friday April/8:
[breath] + sneak in a practice session.

Saturday April/9:
Go to a friend’s birthday party.

Sunday April/10:
Recover & Recharge for the up coming week.

I wish you all a wonderful week, & I hope to see you at a show soon.
Much Love
mOsno

>Recovery + Gigs

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Recovery
Sorry for not updating on Monday as usual, but I was zonked OUT! so much energy was put out on Sunday, that I literally was a zombie all day Monday, and part of Tuesday

The Peace In The Middle East Concert was AMAZING! wow, so many talented people. I was honored to have not one, not two, but THREE lovely dancers, who TOTALLY rocked out to my tunes. If I’m not mistaken, I think all 3 originals were requested by them too. I’m so honored that my music is so highly thought of, I feel like a freaking ROCK Star.
Thank you to all the lovely dancers, I’m sure this will happen again SOON.
Thanks to Khaled for brain-childing this awesome event, & to Jon & Emsu for helping us put it together . I’m sure more awesomeness will be on the way.
Videos will be showing up soon

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Gigs
This Friday April/1:
Sahffi & I will be rocking out at The Black Ankle Vineyard.

Monday April/4:
I’m a feature at The Waterfront Hotel for the Monday Night Social Club.

Wednesday April/6:
Sahffi & I are the features at The Renaissance Hall in Alex, VA.
[1121 King St. Alexandria, VA] $5 cover

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As you see, many things are going on, and many more to come. Like an awesome show with my good friend Ms. Fridrich, which will happen sometime in May, so keep checking in when you can.

Enjoy the rest of your week.
Much Love
mOsno

>Music this week + my upcoming VA gig

>Its going to be an awesome week for music, I’m SUPER excited!

Music this week.
Monday March/21 (Sign up at 6:30. Mic Open 7-10)
The Teavovle Open mic hosted by Acacia Sears just keeps getting better & better, tonight, for the 2nd open mic in a row, L.A.C.E. Radio is coming out to broadcast the open mic LIVE to everyone on the interwebs. AWESOME!

Saturday March/26 (8 -10)
I get to Djembe for Sahffi, as she puts on a full band 2 hour show at Teavolve, no cover, just some good local LIVE music. We’ll be playing old, recent, songs from her upcoming TWO ablums, “Expectations” & “The Break”, so you totally don’t want to miss out on this.

Sunday March/27 (6 -10) $10
Is the day we have ALL been waiting for, its the…
Peace In The Middle East Concert @ GMU. We have 6 performers coming, including singer/songwriters, AND Turkish dancers. I will be performing with my FULL BAND! oh yea! its going to be AWESOME. We already have 107 attending as of this post, & there is still a few more days to go! so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! come on out & join the musical power of PEACE
The Facebook Event | The Facebook Page of this group.

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The Upcoming VA gig.
As you have seen from my recent posts, I’ve been traveling a bit with other artist, which is always fun & exciting. But what’s even MORE exciting, is when you get invited to perform. Woho!!.
Spoke Word artist She Seven contacted Sahffi & I and asked us to perform at her event “WRITE.SPEAK.LIVE”, at The Renaissance Hall in Alexandria VA. Please make sure to come to the event and support us. We are the featured act, so we get to perform through the event, yay!

Wednesday April/6th (7:30 – 10) – $5 cover
Sahffi & mOsno @ The Renaissance Hall [1121 King St. Alexandria, VA]

I wish you all a WONDERFUL week, & I hope to see you at a show sometime soon
Much Love.

mOsno

>ilyWEEKEND : PA

>I had the great fortune of spending my weekend with Rob & Heather of ilyAIMY, they asked me to join them on their 1st NACA conference. It was intense, but we all defiantly learned a lot. We go to meet some very cool people, & saw some very entertaining performances. Slam poets, stand up comedians, jugglers, bands, it was an awesome weekend filled with all kinds of entertainment, its actually gotten me all pumped up to be all creative & such.

I got to see my good friend Nelson of Nelly’s Echo, we chatted & talked about all the craziness we had on the road. We also made some new friends The Headlocks, who are from New York, were our booth neighbors, very cool dudes, we had some good laughs, & conversations about geese! very entertaining stuff I tell you

This week is going to be pretty awesome.
Tuesday
March/15 is the t3N / Alternate Seduction show @ Teavovle (7pm-9pm)

Thursday
March/17 I’m Djembeing for Purple Empress @ The Whistlying Oyster (7pm-11pm
)
Saturday
March/19 I’m Djembeing for Mother Ruckus @ The Baltimore Hostel (8pm-10pm)

Then NEXT Week!! is the PEACE In The Middle East Concert!!
oOoooh Man! we are all SO Eeefing PUMPED about that show, its going to ROCK!

Thanks for reading, & I hope you have a WONDERFUL week.
Much Love

mOsno

>Home Again, yay!

>I’m very pleased to say that I had a great time touring with Nelly’s Echo, it was a lot of fun, a learning experience, & DEFIANTLY tiering..but in a cool rock-star kind of way . I got to meet new people, have road adventures, & go places that are too cold for me to go willingly, hahahah!

My music calendar for the rest of month looks pretty good, & I’m MORE than grateful for it. Thank you.
This week I will be going with ilyAIMY to the NACA Conference, I’ve had the honor of them asking me to run their booth for the weekend, so needless to say it will be a great opportunity for me to check out this organization for future references.

Then on March 15th (FREE) t3N & Alternate Seduction turn Teavolve into the hottest Club in town, with groovy house beats & live vocals. Its going to be SWEEET!
7pm-9pm

March 27th ($10 public / $5 GMU: students, staff, employees) is the FIRST of the Peace In The Middle East Concert series, which will be at George Mason University. I honestly can’t WAIT for this. Some of the proceeds will be going to Children of Peace to help their amazing works of peace. Don’t miss this, SO many people will be performing, AND we’ve gotten word that The Washington Post is sending someone over to cover the event, & possible Al-Jazeera / Al-Hurra. We even got a WRITE UP!
6pm-10pm

Then BAM, its April!
So you see, there is no lack of events on my part, so PLEASE make sure to come out to an event, & help support the local arts.

Its feels good to be back home, I’ve missed you guys
Much Love.
mOsno

>The Echo Tour Day #6 (Last Day)

>6:24am @ BTV International Airport in Burlington, Vermont.
It was a wild ride I must say, I had a great time touring with my friend Nelson of Nelly’s Echo. It was defiantly a learning experience, for us both. I’m defiantly more of a Road-Tripping guy, than I am a flying guy. I got screened today actually for the first time ever! (hmm I wander why?).

Today will defiantly be one of those memorable musical days, I will be here at the airport for about 6 hours or so (I will explain why in a second) my flight leaves around 11am, change flights in Philly, & get to Baltimore around 2:30pm (yay). Go home (thanks to my awesome house-mate Rob of ilyAIMY), change, shower, possibly take a nap!..then I’m of to The Living Well for a show with Sahffi tonight (which you should TOTALLY come to by the way) Its an Art & Musical ShowCase. Oh Yea, no rest for the rockstars yo!

The Explanation.
There are two reasons to why I have to be at the airport today for 6 hours or so. It started off with us getting our car rental from Budget Car Rentals..they were..satisfactory..kind of. So the car had to be returned by 6am today..then we found out that Nelson’s flight LEAVES at 6am today…so naturally we needed to be here earlier. Our hotel is about 2 hours away, so we made sure we gave our selves plenty of time. We got to the airport around 4:30am, I dropped Nelson off to go check in, then parked & returned the car keys. & that’s why I have to be here for 5+ hours. yay ?..umm no.

Have no fear, I’ve anticipated this, so yesterday I bought 3 DvDs that will hopefully keep me entertained until its time for me to start heading home. “August Rush“, “Godsend“, & “The Matrix Collection” which has all 3 matrix films + The Animatrix on 2 DvDs. I have seen all 4, but it is one of my personal favorites.
So in a few minutes I will check out “Godsend” first, because I’m in the mood for a thriller, to keep my blood pumping..oooo yeeeaah!

I must say I’m very excited to be coming home, I hope you have enjoyed my “Echo Tour” entries, & I can’t wait to see all my lovely Baltimore people again, w00t!
Much Love

mOsno

>The Echo Tour Day #5

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Phone Post
6:41pm Vermont Time.
This is the last leg of the tour , but was fun for sure. Tomorrow is going to be CRAZY, Nelson’s flight leaves at 6am, mine leaves at 11am..the car has to be returned by 6am, & the airport is a 2 hour drive from here. Yay.

So it looks like we are leaving at 3am to make it to the airport by 5am to give Nelson time to check in, than I get to wait about 5 hours for my flight.

I’m not going down like that, I went to an FYE at the strip mall near the hotel & bought a few movies “August Rush”, “Godsend”, & “The Matrix Collection”, that way I have something to keep me entertained, hopefully I’ll be able to log into Facebook/Twitter & chat evetyone up for a bit too

We’re about to head out for SoundCheck in a bit, I’ll update again soon

>The Echo Tour Day #4

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Phone Poste
12:54am

We played at Boston College today, it was fun, we met 3 Nigerian students, & one from Maryland.

We had a great time, tomorrow we drive to Vermont for the last gig before I come back home on Saturday

Good night/morning
Much Love

mOsno