The Darker The Sky Is The Brighter The Stars Shine

Why my music is for free…

Jonay — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:11:34 +0000

Pretty often I get the question, why am I giving away my music for free? (for none commercial use) Well here are 2 reasons.
1. Music is my passion and I want to share that passions with as much people as possible. The best way for me is to make it available for free. Since I’m a good position to give it away (see point 2) I decide to do so.

2. The time and effort I put in, I get it back by your support, your promotion and your donations. The moment you decide to share one of my songs with friends, on your blog, in your videos or on social networks such as twitter and facebook, you contribute to my free music. The moment you decide to donate because you like my music you contribute to my free music. When there are sites like Jamendo they contribute to my free music.

I hope this great relation between me and you will stay strong for a very long time. And of course the most important thing for me is to make good music so you feel comfortable to do your part

Links I like:
http://hear-it-first.net/
http://www.jololouie.com/
http://vinylandvodka.com/
www.toxicstrut.net/poptastic/
http://duvetinte.se/
http://www.alazif.se/
http://www.carolsvault.com/
http://djmarciz.com

Vacation pictures

Jonay — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:03:23 +0000

Two weeks went by like two hours…shhwiiish, suddenly I’m back in Sweden again. Theory of relativity in action I guess…
And I think the saying that the weather in Sweden is best during August is a myth.Since my arrival it’s been raining for three days! I’m not overreacting when I say that I’ve already started looking for a flight out of this misery
I promised to share some of my vacation pictures with you, so here are few.
Unfortunately I suck at wordpress, yes I’m not ashamed to admit that so I have no idea how to present the pictures as a nice gallery. Until I figure it out, my dropbox gallery is my solution, here is the link -vacation pictures

Hope you enjoy them.

Summer update+interview

Jonay — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:30:36 +0000

Hello happy people!
I’ve realized that I’m not updating the blog as much as I want, several reasons for that.
1. The World Cup. Yes I’ma soccer freak
2. The Sunny weather. If you live in Sweden and the sun is shining you just got to make sure to embrace it.
3.Wordpress. Still haven’t been able to find an really effective way to use it. The update process feels sort of diffuse and not so motivational. So If you have any good tips on any good wordpress update procedures, please share it with me!

Next SundayI’m also off for a two week long vacation. Flying to Turkey! I’ll post some pics during my vacation and share it with you.

As a last note, check out the interview the german site http://www.campusmaedchen.de/ did with me. If you are not german then google translate is your friend

I wish all of you a wonderful summer and that you create plenty of new exciting memories!

cheers,
Jonay

Powerful words

Jonay — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:25:25 +0000

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other
people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion
drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

Up way north plus some classic hiphop

Jonay — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:14:51 +0000

Last time I updated the blog was when I was going to Norway to snowboard. So haven’t I done anything exciting since then?

Been traveling and exploring things as usual. This has been my route the last three weeks.

But honestly I wish it was more like this.

But I’ll leave that to maybe after the summer.

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Besides traveling I had the chance to see Method Man live here in Stockholm, and it was an awesome show, he has great energy on stage, to bad he didn’t perform more of his classic songs.

But this one he did, straight classic!

Snowboard time!

Jonay — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:09:12 +0000

Inspired by all the ski and snowboard videos lately , I realized it’s been a while since I went snowboarding my self. But the now the bags are packed and I’m ready for my trip to Trysil,Norway. Going to spend Thursday Sunday in a cabin somewhere up in the hills, not alone of course . A kind of different environment to my Milano trip, but damn I feel excited!

The least exciting part is the car ride, takes 5-6 hours to drive from Stockholm, but that is an adventure as well.

I be back late on Sunday, and have an early early early train to catch on Monday morning to Gothenburg. I guess I have to deal with that “problem” later!

For now this is what it’s all about!

(note, it is not me on the pic, I’m too fast to be captured by the camera )

Back from Milano

Jonay — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:14:44 +0000

By now you probably know that I’m a big soccer fan, and one of my favorite teams are Inter ( a team from Milano, Italy)
So me and an entourage of 11 people decided to go to Italy and watch the Milano derby between Inter and Milan. It was a weekend trip (23-25 January) and my first time flying Ryan Air. I had heard so many bad experiences with that airline so I did expect the worse. But there were no problems at all, except that my eyes did hurt every time I looked at those ugly yellow plane chairs in front of me

The city was really charming, the hotel was great and the people were extremely generous! I’m pretty sure I go back to Milano again, but this time when the sun is shining and without having soccer on my mind.

So back to the game…the result? 2-0 to Inter..how did I celebrate that?… at a restaurant, somewhere in the area of Venezia, ordering a pizza around 1:30 AM… Bellissimo!

Until next time

//Jonay

Do you know where you are going?

Jonay — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:24:04 +0000

So here we are, 2010, the holidays are over and for most of you everything is back to normal…

Was 2009 a good year for you?

For me it was, I achieved my goals, and now I’m in a position where I can look back and feel proud of the things I’ve accomplished, both on a personal and musical level.

But now I’m thirsting for more and you should too… new year means new goals…

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

So… do you know where you are going this year?

My Christmas gifts

Jonay — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:29:52 +0000

As I mentioned yesterday, I would compensate the problem with the downloads with an exclusive package. So here it comes, three personal favorite songs that I had to put my touch on.

These songs have only been available for subscribers to my newsletter, but during Christmas it will be available for everyone.
Exclusive

On top of that here are also two ringtones:
Swedish Ladies
Fly Away

Enjoy your holidays people!

//Jonay

Downloading problem solved

Jonay — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:51:45 +0000

The music player has been fixed.
You can now listen and download all songs.

Thank you for your patience.

Meanwhile, stay tuned. The exclusive package is on its way.