Former CRISIS frontwoman Karyn Crisis has issued the following update:

"The second writing session has begun for my solo album! Davide Tiso (EPHEL DUATH) and Eraldo Bernocchi are in studio, and in one and a half days have sent me 1 slammin' completed song and are working on a second!! They are working so fast it's incredible... I have completed lyrics and vocals for 2 songs, and I'm working on a third and fourth. Plus, I'm working on a few vocal-based pieces.

In 2 and a half weeks I'll be in Italy with them, working on pre-production for the month of February and then recording in March.. I'm so excited to sing again and to continue my journey in Italy!!!! New beginnings all around.

I'm grinning at life's sense of humor and greater plan: Here I've been working through my own transformation for 3 years... 3 being the pervasive number of composition in this World of the Relative. I'm reminded of what I wrote before in a previous posting:

"It's not lost on me that we are a triumverate, and it's not lost on me the power and significance in that number. As each human being is a three-fold being, we are each three-in-one, you could say, in this world of Relative: body,mind,spirit; id, ego, superego; here,there, the space in between; conscious, subconscious, superconscious;past, present, future; energy, matter, antimatter; phyiscal, the non-physical, the metaphysical: Eraldo, Davide, Karyn..the POWER is here..."

And as I think of that posting, I look inward and realize that my 3 year journey has brought me in a circle, as life does... whose starting point now is the one I left behind 3 years ago: My voice in Music. Further, I realize each year of those 3 I worked on a third of my self's composition: my mind, my body, my spirit... Getting my house in order, so to speak. I didn't expect to be spit back out into the world... or even the world of music again! I was content journeying my desert alone, then starting up my leather business again working alone, painting alone... then Reiki found me and I received my attunements and WOW, I was ushered back into the world, and lives of people, with eyes that behold so much more now in those around me, in this world, and in the aether... During those 3 years my greatest wish was to go to the Amazon and study with Shaman and become awakened to the secrets of life. Life told me, however, that my place was here, this was no time to hide... and yet I still received my "Shaman experience wish", only in different form... part of my wish took place in a forest indeed, albiet the Redwoods, and with a Shaman, with 3 Reiki Masters, and ALL preparing me for this year, 2009... 9 being the number of COMPLETION.

Like the Phoenix Bird I've so loved since I was a child, I find myself completing a circle, rebuilding from my own ashes, beginning again... From the Self all things spring forth: We are blessed with the creative power to command "I AM, I BECOME, I BELIEVE"."