Kings of Leon, Sex On Fire video with a twist!
Listen for The Police - Message In A Bottle - mixed in to this cover song.
A James Olmos Music Video
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Breath On Me
Please listen to my newest song addition for my "Take One Project". These recordings are works-in-progress (incomplete, raw, organic) for my next full album. I'll choose 12 songs from this "Take One Project" and properly record them for my upcoming album.
I'm collaborating with Google Plus Artists and featuring their photos and artwork as the thumbnail picture for my songs. Each song in the "Take One Project" will feature different artwork from photographers and artists across the globe!
The seventh artist is Willi Bambach. Bambach is a “sui generis” artist who works with many mediums. He says, "Inside the shapes we catch a glimpse of hints of intangible worlds, reachable only by abandoning all the usual patterns of thinking." Please click here to view Bambach's portfolio.
I also collaborated musically with a brilliant guitarist +Mike Majesty. Mike and his band is also responsible for all additional instruments played on this track, aside from my vocals and acoustic guitar.
She moves me on the water
She takes me cross the sea
Like the thunder in the heavens
She brings me to my knees
She hides me in the shadow
She bleeds in me her pain
With the tears that fall from her eyes
I bathe in her new rain
Chorus 1
Breathe on me your fire
Breathe on me your light
And these walls that kiss the heavens
Will keep us safe tonight
Chorus 2
In this tomb of isolation
No tears to wash me clean
Cause the higher this wall rises
The less I feel the pain
She calms me with a whisper
She moves me with her eyes
Like the midnight sweat from a broken dream
She comes from deep inside
She traps me in the mountains
She keeps me far from love
This journey that was meant for me
Was stolen from above
Bridge
And I will honor your love
Cause our walls are the same
Our eyes they search for sunlight
As we look out past the pain - the pain
Words & Music by +James Olmos & +Mike Majesty
Artwork by +Willi Bambach bit.ly/UexPdp
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg +Billy Wilson +Paulissa Kipp +Suzen JueL
New Artwork Collaboration
The seventh artist is Willi Bambach. Bambach is a “sui generis” artist who works with many mediums. He says, "Inside the shapes we catch a glimpse of hints of intangible worlds, reachable only by abandoning all the usual patterns of thinking." Please click here to view Bambach's portfolio.
I also collaborated musically with a brilliant guitarist +Mike Majesty. Mike and his band is also responsible for all additional instruments played on this track, aside from my vocals and acoustic guitar.
For collaborative details please click Willi Bambach's photo
Willi Bambach's work is the thumbnail art for
'Breath On Me'
This song is about the "walls" we build around ourselves to shelter our pains.
She moves me on the water
She takes me cross the sea
Like the thunder in the heavens
She brings me to my knees
She hides me in the shadow
She bleeds in me her pain
With the tears that fall from her eyes
I bathe in her new rain
Chorus 1
Breathe on me your fire
Breathe on me your light
And these walls that kiss the heavens
Will keep us safe tonight
Chorus 2
In this tomb of isolation
No tears to wash me clean
Cause the higher this wall rises
The less I feel the pain
She calms me with a whisper
She moves me with her eyes
Like the midnight sweat from a broken dream
She comes from deep inside
She traps me in the mountains
She keeps me far from love
This journey that was meant for me
Was stolen from above
Bridge
And I will honor your love
Cause our walls are the same
Our eyes they search for sunlight
As we look out past the pain - the pain
Words & Music by +James Olmos & +Mike Majesty
Artwork by +Willi Bambach bit.ly/UexPdp
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg +Billy Wilson +Paulissa Kipp +Suzen JueL
Want More Music!
60+ songs are available for listening on my website! More artists and photographers are welcome to support this project! All current songs and future songs require artwork.
You can always contact me via my website www.jamesolmos.com or Google Plus and view the collection of collaborative works here.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
James Olmos Music - Newsletter #02
FEBRUARY IS AN EXCITING MONTH FOR ME
WATCH as I'm putting on my recording cap, positioning microphones and firing up my Studio One recording software. Yes - My 2013 album is in motion!
Are you excited as I am? I look forward to sharing this musical journey with you. I'll post studio action shots on my blogs and social networks. And if you have a backstage pass on my website then you'll get to hear some sample sounds, comment and offer suggestions on the forum board, watch short recording session videos and be the first to hear the finished product!
What's New?
- iTunes - now available
- Buy My Physical CD - old school style
- Take One Project - new artists added
- Album Song Choices - backstage exclusive LISTEN
- Google Plus Hangouts - new shows added
- Fly Again - new song, work-in-progress
Coming Soon!
- Photo Shoot - by Emily Arnold
- The Song Lounge - Hosts Tim Behrens & James Olmos a Hangout On Air
- Zombies - by +byron rempel
- Music collaboration - +Anacron's saxophone on "In A Moment"
- Music collaboration - +Tim Behrens' vocals & keyboard on "I Hurt"
How can I help?
- SHARE my MUSIC and WEBSITE with friends and family
- SHARE my VIDEOS on your social networks
- SHARE my social network POSTS - it only takes one fun click
Keep enjoying the moments ~
James
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Live like you were dying?
Live like you were dying . . . I never liked that saying. It just seems so morbid. Live for today is another term we often hear that is suppose to encourage us to value life.
We like to create reasons to endure this life instead of understanding that life is simply, breath. To live like you're dying is to live anxiously and desperately. Our journey towards death begins at conception and concludes after our last breath. In contrast to eternity which began before breath and does not expire.
Yet life does not begin with our own breath, it begins with the breath of our mother and father . . . some say it begins with God. We inhale before we exhale. We take in life before we give life.
Why ponder on reasons to exist? Why search for the purpose of our breath? Why seek the creator when we've already been found?
Live.
I draw songs from breath. I don't search for the song; the song finds me. The song existed before me and I only need to have ears to hear it. My muse is everything outside my skin and everything inside my spirit, soul and body.
Why do I stand where I stand and breath? To live.
We like to create reasons to endure this life instead of understanding that life is simply, breath. To live like you're dying is to live anxiously and desperately. Our journey towards death begins at conception and concludes after our last breath. In contrast to eternity which began before breath and does not expire.
Yet life does not begin with our own breath, it begins with the breath of our mother and father . . . some say it begins with God. We inhale before we exhale. We take in life before we give life.
Why ponder on reasons to exist? Why search for the purpose of our breath? Why seek the creator when we've already been found?
Live.
I draw songs from breath. I don't search for the song; the song finds me. The song existed before me and I only need to have ears to hear it. My muse is everything outside my skin and everything inside my spirit, soul and body.
Why do I stand where I stand and breath? To live.
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| From Seattle March 2012 |
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Shatter Me
Please listen to my newest song addition for my "Take One Project". These recordings are works-in-progress (incomplete, raw, organic) for my next full album. I'll choose 12 songs from this "Take One Project" and properly record them for my upcoming album.
I'm collaborating with Google Plus Artists and featuring their photos and artwork as the thumbnail picture for my songs. Each song in the "Take One Project" will feature different artwork from photographers and artists across the globe!
The sixth artist is Suzen Juel. Suzen is a musician and artist who works with many mediums. All her works speak deeply and passionately. Please click here to view Suzen's portfolio.
Did You Know . . .
The sixth artist is Suzen Juel. Suzen is a musician and artist who works with many mediums. All her works speak deeply and passionately. Please click here to view Suzen's portfolio.
For collaborative details please click Suzen Juel's photo
Suzen Juel's work is the thumbnail art for
'SHATTER ME'
https://soundcloud.com/jamesolmos/shatter-me
Color me
Paint me bright upon your skin so fair
I realize
I feel again
In the motion of your song I fall
Through your pain
Chorus
And I've been waiting for my soul to cry
Bitter kisses on my heart
You've come closer than my yesterday
Won't you free my pain
Won't you free my pain
Stay with me
Hold me like you feel at home
With my soul
Cry with me
Scream your pain into my body
And shatter me
Paint me bright upon your skin so fair
I realize
I feel again
In the motion of your song I fall
Through your pain
Chorus
And I've been waiting for my soul to cry
Bitter kisses on my heart
You've come closer than my yesterday
Won't you free my pain
Won't you free my pain
Stay with me
Hold me like you feel at home
With my soul
Cry with me
Scream your pain into my body
And shatter me
Words & Music by James Olmos
Painting by Suzen Juel
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg +Billy Wilson +Paulissa Kipp
Painting by Suzen Juel
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg +Billy Wilson +Paulissa Kipp
Want More Music!
50 songs are available for listening on my website! More artists and photographers are welcome to support this project! All current songs and future songs require artwork.
You can always contact me via my website www.jamesolmos.com or Google Plus and view the collection of collaborative works here.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Carry Me Tonight
Please listen to my newest song addition for my "Take One Project". These recordings are works-in-progress (incomplete, raw, organic) for my next full album. I'll choose 12 songs from this "Take One Project" and properly record them for my upcoming album.
I'm collaborating with Google Plus Artists and featuring their photos and artwork as the thumbnail picture for my songs. Each song in the "Take One Project" will feature different artwork from photographers and artists across the globe!
The fifth artist is +Paulissa Kipp. Paulissa is a Curious Lens Goddess, author and artist documenting the beautiful, curious and often overlooked. Please click here to view Paula's portfolio.
Soul touches soul - Spirit touches life
This muse will arise
Did You Know . . .
The fifth artist is +Paulissa Kipp. Paulissa is a Curious Lens Goddess, author and artist documenting the beautiful, curious and often overlooked. Please click here to view Paula's portfolio.
For collaborative details please click Paulissa Kipp's photo
Paulissa Kipp's work is titled "Path, Color the Way" and is the thumbnail art for
'Carry Me Tonight'
She was my muse - Left me dazed and confused
Like the day that we first met
She held my song - She always sang along
But the tune was just too strong
Distant as the sun - Yet she burned in my bones
Within my dreams she made a home
She never looked in to my eyes - If she did, she’d know why
I was crazy on this love
Chorus
Carry me tonight - Be the air - Be the light
Carry me tonight - Sing of love - Sing of life
-Carry me tonight - Stop the world - Dry your eyes-
Engraved in my soul - This muse left me whole
A troubadour’s delight
With time on her side - She chose to abide
To the moral law of life - blinded
She longs from afar - Waiting for her bard
As she baths in every verse
Naked as this song - She lingers like a poem
I feel her in my bones
Bridge
Bone of my bone - Flesh of my flesh
The story’s seldom told
Like the day that we first met
She held my song - She always sang along
But the tune was just too strong
Distant as the sun - Yet she burned in my bones
Within my dreams she made a home
She never looked in to my eyes - If she did, she’d know why
I was crazy on this love
Chorus
Carry me tonight - Be the air - Be the light
Carry me tonight - Sing of love - Sing of life
-Carry me tonight - Stop the world - Dry your eyes-
Engraved in my soul - This muse left me whole
A troubadour’s delight
With time on her side - She chose to abide
To the moral law of life - blinded
She longs from afar - Waiting for her bard
As she baths in every verse
Naked as this song - She lingers like a poem
I feel her in my bones
Bridge
Bone of my bone - Flesh of my flesh
The story’s seldom told
Soul touches soul - Spirit touches life
This muse will arise
Words & Music by James Olmos
Photography by Paulissa Kipp
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg +Billy Wilson
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg +Billy Wilson
Want More Music!
50 songs are available for listening on my website! More artists and photographers are welcome to support this project! All current songs and future songs require artwork.
You can always contact me via my website www.jamesolmos.com or Google Plus and view the collection of collaborative works here.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
In The Light
Please listen to my newest song addition for my "Take One" project. These recordings are works-in-progress (incomplete, raw, organic) for my next full album. I'll choose 10 songs from this "Take One" project and properly record them for my upcoming album.
You may already know . . .
I'm collaborating with Google Plus Artists and featuring their photos and artwork as the thumbnail picture for my songs. Each song in the "Take One" project will feature different artwork from photographers and artists from across the globe!
The fourth artist is +Billy Wilson . Billy is a photographer who produces images of self portraits, architecture, and natural scenes and combines them together to tell a story in a series of images. He also does architectural drawings and designs. You can find more of Billy's work at his blog & website. Click here for his prints.
You have seen me - heard my cry and we dance - in the light
Knowing love we find forgiveness - breathe out the past
Chorus
Breathing out our pain
We surrender to the dance
Reaching out past the fear
We find hope in the light - in the light
We have overcome the storm - found peace - once again
Giving up our selfish hands we kneel in the light
Rap
You can laugh at the truth and beg for the rain
You can sing about life and push down the pain
But where is the hope - Where is fire
Where is that drive - Do you keep it inside
Or in the light - In the dance
We’ve held this long and danced through the pain
We can’t give up - We can’t turn back
There’s higher ground - Life to be found
The struggles - The sweat - The sorrow
Through conflict - collision and chaos
You continue to live - succeed - achieve - deliver
You continue to dance
Cause you choose to breathe - You breathe
Words & Music by +James Olmos
Photography by +Billy Wilson
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg
You may already know . . .
I'm collaborating with Google Plus Artists and featuring their photos and artwork as the thumbnail picture for my songs. Each song in the "Take One" project will feature different artwork from photographers and artists from across the globe!
The fourth artist is +Billy Wilson . Billy is a photographer who produces images of self portraits, architecture, and natural scenes and combines them together to tell a story in a series of images. He also does architectural drawings and designs. You can find more of Billy's work at his blog & website. Click here for his prints.
Want more music!
50 songs are available for listening on my website! More artists and photographers are welcome to support this project! All current songs and future songs require artwork.
For collaborative details please click Billy Wilson's photo
You can always contact me via my website www.jamesolmos.com or Google Plus and view the collection of collaborative works here.
Billy Wilson chose a beautiful portrait titled "Asleep In A Greenhouse" for the thumbnail art for
'In The Light'
You have seen me - heard my cry and we dance - in the light
Knowing love we find forgiveness - breathe out the past
Chorus
Breathing out our pain
We surrender to the dance
Reaching out past the fear
We find hope in the light - in the light
We have overcome the storm - found peace - once again
Giving up our selfish hands we kneel in the light
Rap
You can laugh at the truth and beg for the rain
You can sing about life and push down the pain
But where is the hope - Where is fire
Where is that drive - Do you keep it inside
Or in the light - In the dance
We’ve held this long and danced through the pain
We can’t give up - We can’t turn back
There’s higher ground - Life to be found
The struggles - The sweat - The sorrow
Through conflict - collision and chaos
You continue to live - succeed - achieve - deliver
You continue to dance
Cause you choose to breathe - You breathe
Words & Music by +James Olmos
Photography by +Billy Wilson
Previous Artists: +Astrid MJ. Houchin +Michael Bastia +Sherrie von Sternberg
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