Priscilla Hernandez's blog

My friend and guitarrist Gaston Iungman is coming tomorrow to visit :). It's been a couple of years we don't see each other (he recorded electric guitar in "Nightmare" song). He'll collaborate in a few tracks of the new album. I'm excited about it, and also to share some tea time with a friend again.

My sweet brother German is also visiting late this week :) I miss him so much!! He's always been the handsome of the family and so clever, fun and nice. I thank him also to be the most supportive of my family regarding my carreer, to the point that he may try to sing a few lines for a couple of my songs...! :) I wish he would decide to move to Barcelona :(. All my family live just too far away.

The new hamster is now officially named Totonika Nova :) and she's a cute little thing. She enjoyes broccoli like crazy and is a lovely excuse to make us laugh and smile at dinner time. But she's a bit crazy and always try to jump from heights when we let her be a bit on her own. It's been many years since my last hammie, but It feels great to have something breathing and alive by your side while you work.

I keep on studying the kantele, I was doing it all wrong so i'm trying to get the proper technique now. I really need to invest a little time to look for band members for next year. We´ré back being only three in the ensemble and I need a percussionist quite urgently... sigh! I'd like to find another girl for the backing vocals specialy if she plays violin or guitar... but i'm not sure if focusing in it right now as I may move soon. Investigating the "youhikko" as I may get one soon. Looks difficult but much more affordable than a nickelarpa. Probably it will sound like a screaming cat first year in my hands but I think it's time for learning some bowed string.

I do send an apology to all my friends for not being so much in touch lately.
Weather is getting nicer... time for long walks!

I absolutely love the sound of my Kantele (thanks once more to Gerry Henkel for building mine. It's amazing how a simple thing can sound so heavently. I composed my first improvisation with it, and I've decided to give it a proper shape into an interlude called "into the mist".

Been also playing like crazy the lap dulcimer (I never played guitar so this one has been hard for me in terms of learning to strum and keep rhythm) but I feel now i'm getting to a poing I can make simple arrangements while I sing and It's so fun. Thank you to Poe and Amelia for this wonderful gift (and congrats on your baby!!) and also to Ron Ewing for the advice to learn to play (your capo looks and work wonderfully on it)!! Of course hammered dulcimer is not deserted and I keep some time a day also with my flutes and the oscar hank drum. It's crazy but I may expend hours practising till my dingers go achy. But I'm glad to have had some time to do this (even if it all looks quiet regarding activity). I needed some time to polish, to study and to approach to new things in my music. I'm starting to study theory too, never did as I'm self taught, but at some point I guess I had to have some background.


I leave you with a pic of me with my double ocarina (the hardest flute I have in terms of playing but also the most special). It was made by Charlie Hind from and it's a brain trainer, believe me. This lovely dress was endorsed by el Costurero Real and the photography was taken by Sebastià Paragolas a week ago for a local magazine. It's sort of a test picture too as I'm performing in the Opening credits of a internet broadcasted independent tv miniseries called "El Cordial de Medianoche" (inspired in the XV century it mixes historical elements with fairytales storytelling) + info coming soon here:
El Cordial de Medianoche




I'm thinking of installing a chat there and schedule maybe one day a week.

Honestamente no sé bien como funciona last fm, pero me sorprendió verme entre los diez artistas canarios má´s escuchados entre artistas firmados por grandes sellos. Sin embargo en reflexión, tras haber tocado en USA, alemania, UK y diversas localidades españolas, me da un poco de pena que nunca se me haya invitado a mi propia tierra. Esperemos que ocurra pronto.

Well as you all may know already Héctor Corcin is my partner, also a band member of my musical formation and composer of his own and wonderful music (no need to say I'm his number one fan!!)

He has just launched his music website (after a long time of not being available in internet). where you can download some free tracks, listen to a wealth of them and also buy exclusive content.

Go, check, listen and show your love and feedback at hector-corcin.com

Ok, just a quick note to tell you that I had a great time in FAERIECON (USA). We made two concerts with Woodland, and also I performed in the bad faery ball and made an accoustic unplugged set the day after. It was way fun and the room was crazy opening to a lobby where all bands (woodland, Faun and myself) made parties and jammed all night long (and still performing the following days). We went also to Oregon a few days and on our way back we collected a gift from two listeners (Poe and Amelia) that hosted us for our last night and gave to me a precious lap dulcimer that I'm intending to learn.

There's a gallery of the event already in faeriecon website. Though I'll make a selection and will put a few here and a more complete zip file for the vip later on

visit http://faeriecon.com  to see the first galleries up

I've come to a meeting, and mostly to rest and meet friends... I thought about taking the chance for some promo but i was in the mood of friend meetings... :) so i'm staying there a few days longer if you're a friend and wish to meet (in Tenerife) cya!! returning to Barcelona late this week. He venido a las canarias, mis islas nativas para un meeting, descansar y ver a algunos amigos, pensé tomar la visita para promoción pero realmente me apetecía ver más a viejos amigos, así que me quedaré unos días más, y si eres amigos y deseas quedar (en Tenerife) mandad un mensaje. Cya!! regreso a Barcelona en unos días. Aprovecho para desearle a Héctor (co-administrador del fanclub) un feliz cumpleaños (luv) I take the chance to wish Héctor (one of the fanclub admins) a happy birthday (luv!)

I admit i've been all my life running away from the Barbie image, but I'm absolutely thrilled by the amazing work this talented young artist has made. I've been sculpted into a little statue by  the talented doll-maker ALBA GARCÍA from www.fantasiation.com. It arrived my birthday and it's been the most wondrous and amazing gift. About 40 cms in height it features me with one of my usual dresses on stage and raven wings :) (like the ghost costume in my concert set) and it's been sculpted with throrough detail. Alba is taking commissions  and is very talented, be sure to check her website here.

just took place in Philadelphia (USA), and we're back (this time safe, we took a taxi from the airport) I had fun in the balls though it's always risky to perform not with your actual band, it was my pleasure to share the stage with friends from Woodland and Trillian green to support me (the the theatre's ghost, Trocadero was really haunted). Faeriecon was a bittersweet experience as Brian Froud was ill and Alan Lee´s mother died :(, and Omnia had to cancel at last minute so I couldn't meet them either... Still in the middle of the frantic moments, I had so much happiness meeting with Kelly and Emilio, my lovely and sweet friends from woodland, and Robert, Stephanie, River, Storm, Kimmy, Katie, Susan Scroder, Jen Delyth, Jasmine, Wendy and Toby Froud and sooooooooo soooooooo many others that I can't stop this smile of my face of having been able to be with you. I know I missed a few people too...!!

 

If you attended and have pictures please send me a private message so i can give you an e-mail,  as most of you know I lost my camera last august, and i'm on the way to replace it, so I'll thank all the memories to be sent... We used our friend Emilio's one for some pics in the convention but we lack pics of our set.

Here is one of the pictures I've got... hope to post a bigger update... while I start to receive them.
ahh thanks god we  got a  laptop and could use some vst on stage!! yayy!! (thanks all of you).

I brought a few limited prints of  Susan's Schroder photography of me (ty!) so i'll make a contest for vip members the following days to give away a copy.

We premiered two new songs there "northern light" and "the long way"  (both songs included in my new album on the making) and also performed a little exerpt from "into the labyrinth"

Among the great things happening too, meeting my friend and also singer-songwriter Hannah Fury!!! She was lovely.

I also got a wonderful gift from Goblinroad (a cloak), my friend linda gave me a red dress (ty!!) and River a special glass cup with the yidneth logo carved in glass, and Hannah a  little tiny ghost in a bottle... among other things...! IT WAS GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL AND I'll miss you!

My friend and fantasy photographer Susan Schroder gifted me yesterday an awesome photowork, she took the photo of me when I visited USA in faerieworlds, and now she's completed "the ghost and the fairy" (following the subtitle of Ancient Shadows and interpreting my music in it), judge yourselves, I thinks she's so talented and i'm so honoured, she'll be at the faeriecon booth and will share the profits of the poster with me to help me in all the misfortunate robbery thing. I may have also a few copies there for sale.
and now Susan's work :) featuring me :) thank you!!!

To add more Susan forwarded some of the session pictures to a friend of hers, Tommy from Imythyou.com and another approachment called "le fade papallona" was made. Both can be seen in my fan art gallery (among also two sketches) that illustrator "Hawk" made of me and Kelly in Farieworlds.
If you've made a photo manipulation, drawing or want to make one please always feel free to submit it to me ;-) so I can update it.

 UPDATED FAN ART GALLERY

Also I remind to the people who has purchased the album that you can send a picture with the album in your hands so I can put it in the fans gallery here (don't be shy)

UPDATED FANS GALLERY

If you want to help please do at:
http://yidneth.com/?pag=donations

Below the story of it all...

This is a bittersweet story, it happened last August when we came back from our USA gig :(, I've had
the greatest of times in Oregon, and in Faerieworlds, it was awesome,
the people, my band supporters, Woodland, the Frouds, Robert, the
Greenman, the storyteller ... I miss them so much already...)
when flying back it was exhausting, we had to
go from portland to chicago, then to zurich and then to Spain. We were
exhausted and willing to get home...
but THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!