a fantastic review of “Ivolution” from Ravenheart Music!

Hello brethren!

More and more people outside of Sweden have been discovering the album and have requeted to review the album. Here is the latest one from Ravenheart Music!

http://www.ravenheartmusic…com/bio.html

Thanks, Phil!!

The review doesn’t seem to realize that I wrote the music with Martin and Andreas K as well as the lyrics, but it’s cool. One reviewer thought the Sounds and Brolle Jr. had written my album. Guess this is how rumours get started.

Plus it’s just 10 days to IVA live at Alcazar! Ayda and I just played a party at Stureplan on Monday and it felt awesome to start the vibe early .. plus we met with Camilla Welton to pick out the music and I must say, it’s gonna be a beautiful night.

Tonight .. it’s band rehearsal!

Be sure to rsvp to Alcazar if you haven’t already. The place only holds 150 or so and it’s filling up! http://www.facebook.com/ev..ent.php?eid=153277263111&r..ef=mf

Love!
.’. IVA .’.

Hello brethren,

It’s been a great week for me thanks to you .. I hopped up to #3 in the local Reverb Nation Charts and up 468 in the global charts!! Thank you so much for coming and playing “Dreams”. You can visit the site here http://www.reverbnation.com/iva and at the bottom of this message is a widget code you can please share on your profiles so more people can listen.

The funny thing is I slept in this morning because I was so tired (usually up before 8am) and my conscience usually goes crazy when I do this. And look what happened .. I got an incredible happy surprise thanks to you all.

love

.’. IVA .’.

Reverb Nation Widget code:

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visit to Ekohair Stockholm

This past week I went to Ekohair in Stockholm and had my hair colored ecologically. (www.ekohair.se) Did you know that the chemicals in regular hair die are poisonous to our bodies, as well as to the water supply and the fish that swim in that water? Did you know that you can lighten your hair with a little peroxide, ecological mud, salt, water, and shampoo? Come and visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/-IVA-/71523509286?ref=ts to read more. And visit Ecohair by calling 08-650 30 08.

Ecohair in Stockholm

she has roots!

The roots are gone and she's oh so pretty

climbing the charts

Hello brethren.

Much to my happy surprise, “Dreams”, the first song from my album “Ivolution” has been climbing the Reverb Nation charts. Reverb Nation is the music player that is linked to my Facebook page. (http://www.facebook.com/sireniva).

Please come and listen here http://www.reverbnation.com/iva !

I was at #7, then #6, and now I’m at #5 in the local charts for Stockholm. Please help me get to #1!

I’m also up 8 spots in the international charts for pop … Thank you for making all of this possible for me!

love

.’. IVA .’.

Jeb and Paul’s wedding

Hello brethren,

It’s been a while since my last post. I have been doing some traveling.

I went to Bath, England, to see my brother and his fiancé Paul have a civil ceremony to make them legal partners. It was a wedding. They asked me to sing and I was so nervous I almost passed out at the ceremony. It was an honor to be a part of it.

The woman at the Guild Hall in Bath handled the ceremony with so much reverence and so much love, and we were together in a beautiful room filled with family and friends. It felt natural and comfortable.

We live in a world today that is filled with so much corruption, greed, and pain. This is because of ignorance and confusion, people who are desperate for love and understanding and turn to money and power instead.

First of all, let’s not let that happen. Reach out to everyone. We are all the same.

Secondly, Jeb and Paul had a celebration of love. We need more of these! May people join together in love all across the world, and may our unions drown out the voices of anger and the black hole of corruption.

Today .. do something special to help someone that needs it .. and help them to accept your love. Let them trust it. Trust that you love yourself. You are perfect.

.’. IVA .’.

Sunday morning …

Riding the ferry to Waxholm

The future

Hello brethren.

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the future, as has anyone who’s heard about climate change … as well as the Mayan prophecy (I am not a believer in this). I do believe we can all change our lives for the better by living in harmony (both inside and out).

I’ve been asking friends their vision for the future, and I was particularly moved by a response from a Myspace friend who has named his page Magic(k) is Natural Law of Uni Verse / Unseen. Riothamus Merlin (http://www.myspace.com/riothamus)

He writes:

ah the things I have seen …

what kind of world is it going to be . . .

… something like mad max?

… cold and sterile 1984?

… or utopia-esque?

my guess it that what ever you think will be the truth . . . your consciousness will ride the wave of the vibration it is maintaining, and that will take you to the new, specific, post-2012 (or so) world…

but the possibilities for the future are Awesome, inspiring, fulfilling, and Perfect for Our Species…

CCCC and ECCO in effect… (john lilly)

cosmic coincidence…

i have infinite amounts of optimism, ideas, and drive

namaste!

**

Amen, Riothamus!

I agree that we create our own future, and I really like his attitude that whatever we think it is is what it will be. Plus the optimism, ideas and drive! It take drive. For each of us it’s about our outlook. And these doomsday prophecies just take us off the true course which is to affect our world in every moment. In every moment we have the power to choose the highest possibility and create a world around us filled with love and opportunity.

What I’d most like to hear is from you. How do you feel about “the future”?

with love
.’. IVA .’.

When street "art" is art

out and about eco style

.’. Today I plunged into the rain to visit a magical counterpart in IVA visions .. we’ll call her Anolivia … to speak of possibilities present and future and the beauty that has already taken place. After we parted, having planted quite a large seed and spreading a few others on the path towards it, I happened by two new Ecological food experiences in the Söderland of Stockholm. One was called Smaksatt, where I picked up a can of Free & Easy Organic Mushroom & Spinach soup for my love Mars Duc, who needs gentle food for his sensitive tummy, and some Four O’clock Energy Nirvana tea, which my friend Dea swears by. Well as I moseyed along, dodging the long rain drops, I took shelter at the Green Bean coffee shop to try my favorite summer drink .. Iced tea. They had it fair trade and ecological and it was a sweet treat to sip as I sent along across the ocean a few requested Ivolutions, one to France, one to Sweden and one to California. Green Been says that they do their best to be completely ecological but it’s not always possible .. and as they are it is alright, it’s all we can do to make the best of what we know .’.

Smaksatt is run by the centered Maria Hjalmunge and located on Rosenlundsgatan 20 (www.smaksatt.com)

Green Bean is located at the Torkel Knutssongatan exit of the Mariatorget Subway