Joan Ivazes is owner / operator of Electric Moon Music Studios in the Marin area. Using Protools, she writes, plays and produces music using vocals, keyboards, Guitar, piano, mandolin, horns. She is experienced with vocal harmony and arranging which is evident in her songwriting. She is getting ready to release a CD she had been in the studio producing so keep a lookout for when it drops!
She has performed in many bands, ensembles and combo's throughout the years, primarily as a singer. From 1987-2023 she sang in: Garage Sale, CJ and the Groove, The Tribe, Blue Shadows, Air Prayers, The Night Mares, The Glide Ensemble, the Mirabai Ensemble, The PoRazone Love Project, InVoc, The Ring, The Marinfidels, and currently sings backup for Maria Muldaur. She has sang on CD productions for other artists, including: The Ring, Jeff Jones, and Charles Moselle.
Her music was featured in film "The Song Within" which was presented at the Sedona Film Festival in 2010.
Her styles range from blues, jazz, rock, soul, folk, gospel, improv, and sound healing. Some of her influences include: The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Heart, Diane Reeves, among others.
She found her highest expression in the music world to be vocal improvisation, and for many years she has explored this passionately and performed with bay area singers including David Worm, Bryan Dyer, Dara Roberts, Pollyanna Bush, Rose Chapman and Rhiannon, among others.
She has worked as a musical director for a dramatic production at Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, Ca, working with teens on songwriting for a class performance.
She has done sound and music editing and production for Web sites, and created music for healing practitioners in Mill Valley Ca. She became certified as a sound healing practitioner in 2008 at the Institute of Sound & Consciousness in San Francisco, CA and then continued her education in engineering for sound healing music. She creates personalized sound healing compositions for her clients.
