"Straight Up" that's the new song, that starts off my latest album "Collapse". As for you video geeks out there, I'm a musician, this is pure DIY, so I've kept it simple. As I was experimenting with all sorts of new album covers, the idea to use the same album cover with different backgrounds was born.
Voilà!
First I sing "straight out", which means "immediately". "Straight up" in slangmeans really, real, truthfully, honest. My simple 'message': to be who you want to be, sort of a call for everyone to live in total freedom. The music? An upbeat, funky, danceable ditty to keep it breezy.
As you can/ will witness, I've made a lyric video just for the effect of the simplicity of the words.
It's not always that difficult!
With a low budget use of the Veed editor (hence the watermark!)
Review: Joostvd - 196 Tree Formaat: CD - Digitaal / Label: Independent Release: 2024
(english) Text: Peter Marinus
It has become a tradition that I look forward to every year. A new album from Joostvd! This singer-songwriter and do-it-yourselfer Joost van Dinther, a.k.a. The Vanishing Dutchman, has imposed himself with a new album every year. And every time he surprises with very high -quality songs in which all kinds of influences pass by such as the warm Kevin Ayers sound through the singing of Joost, Cocktail Jazz, Bee Gees Disco, Fusion, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan ...
opens his new album With the ingenious \"Hink-Step-Sprong\" funk from Keep the Temperature Down. Full of lazy grooves, who stumble over each other but still continue to swing.
then it's time for the Samba in the Dark. Because of Joost's singing, this song sounds like Kevin Ayers ventures on the Samba with good results and a cocktail in his hand. The Bee Gees Disco sound is brought by Joost in that freaking disco through the mangle resulting in a grooving Stely Dan-like sound. Voyage of Vanity is then a beneficial cocktail jazz number powered by lazy electronic rhythms.
The venomous pumping, and funky, the girl not the blues is full of angular grooves and fusion influences. The intimate side of Joost passes by the Michael Franks-like Souljazz song When Blue Turns to Gray. City in the Sea is an instrumental floating Syn-Pop number in the best Yellow Magic Orchestra tradition. Speaking of The Yellow Magic Orchestra ... Sakamoto is a respectful and atmospheric tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto. After the guitar instrumental flower in a flame, Joost closes his album with the hopping funky Zoo or Zen. I am already looking forward to the 2025 album!
(dutch) Tekst: Peter Marinus
Het is inmiddels een traditie geworden waar ik jaarlijks naar uitkijk. Een nieuw album van JoosTVD! Deze singer-songwriter en doe-het-zelver Joost van Dinther, a.k.a. The Vanishing Dutchman, heeft zichzelf opgelegd om elk jaar met een nieuw album te komen. En elke keer verrast hij met kwalitatief zeer hoogstaande nummers waarin allerlei invloeden voorbij komen zoals het warme Kevin Ayers geluid door de zang van Joost, cocktail jazz, Bee Gees disco, fusion, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan…
Zijn nieuwe album opent met de ingenieuze “hink-stap-sprong” funk van Keep The Temperature Down. Vol met luie grooves, die over elkaar heen struikelen maar toch blijven swingen.
Dan is het tijd voor de samba in The Dark. Door de zang van Joost klinkt dit nummer alsof Kevin Ayers zich, met goed resultaat en een cocktail in zijn hand, aan de samba waagt. Het Bee Gees disco geluid wordt door Joost in That Freaking Disco door de mangel gehaald met een groovend Steely Dan-achtig geluid als gevolg. Voyage Of Vanity is vervolgens een weldadig cocktail jazz nummer aangedreven door luie elektronische ritmes.
Het venijnig pompend, en funky, The Girl Not The Blues zit vol met hoekige grooves en fusion invloeden. De intieme kant van Joost komt voorbij in het Michael Franks-achtige souljazz nummer When Blue Turns To Grey. City In The Sea is een instrumentaal zwevend syn-pop nummer in de beste Yellow Magic Orchestra traditie. Over the Yellow Magic Orchestra gesproken…Sakamoto is een respectvol en sfeervol eerbetoon aan Ryuichi Sakamoto.
In 196Tree laat Joost, al croonend, de 60’s pop voorbij komen. Na de gitaar instrumental Flower In A Flame sluit Joost zijn album af met het huppelend funky Zoo Or Zen.
Opnieuw levert JoosTVD een prima eigenzinnig kwaliteits album af. Ik kijk nu al uit naar het 2025 album!
So I've this record out, thinking, how about some promotion? That's not me, I am just a bloody musician with an "eclectic' taste. So it's not gonna be easy, even though the possibilities are wider and deeper these days. A lot of those hipsters fold (radio stations, blogspots) or change their policies (soundcloud). Luckily a simple google search can help filter the old from the new. (Online) radio is still important. It's a flat digital earth now. You can always pay for a play, but that doesn't count in my opinion. And don't forget the writers. Reviews help spread the news even more!
I've had a few and more songs on Croydon radio in rotation, but they stopped playing "under the radar" artists. Well they stopped. And there are so many......talents. Where to go now...?
So I've sent my music to other online radios and online magazins, because there are so many more!
The list will be endless, I hope.
Timeline (source: mostly twitter, facebook and google):
Lonel Oak Radio
The whole album has been played 2 times on the "Full Album show" at 7 p.m western time 17-04-2017. They've showed their appreciation with 4 stars for each song (tweets) and they will played in rotation for 250m days. Thanks! (Los Angeles, USA)
No Depression
Created a nice page for the album over there. It's waiting for a review. Be a journalist and go there.
Don't get depressed.
Scrub Radio
A few (old and new) songs on the air, in rotatio.
Radio 98eins
"Private Scene" on the german radio. DJ and journalist Nathan Nörgel will review the album later on.
Now with his sixth review since The Vanished dutchman [2010], Nathan still knows how to impress me with his couraging words. Well, it is his work, he's a journalist, always busy writing in a generous way. Thanks again, I'm very grateful!
It's in german, but I've put an free, loose english translation underneath it.
Here's the original Link
JoosTVD - Lightning Dutchman
German:
Manche Musiker sind einfach zu clever und gleichzeitig zu humorvoll, um
in dieser ach so ernsten - und so erfolgsgierigen Welt - erfolgreich zu
sein. Bin ich froh, dass jemand wie JoosTVD davon nicht entmutigen
lässt und in jedem Jahr dennoch ein Album voller musikalisch großartiger
Lieder zu veröffentlichen.
Es geht um Verschwörungen im Whirlpool, Paranoiker mit Knarren, den
Narzissmus der Mediengesellschaft oder arme Schuhputzerjungen. Dabei
trifft Rock auf Funk, Jazz, Latin und schamlos poppige Melodien. Und
zuweilen holt Joost van Dinter sogar einen Slide heraus, um seine
Gitarren zu spielen.
Klar gibt es in den Songs jede Menge Humor – wer aber JoosTVD wie ich
über Jahre hinweg mit seiner Musik verfolgt, der lernt ihn darüber
hinaus lieben als einen unwahrscheinlich reflektierten und feinfühligen
Musiker, der einfach lieber drauflos lacht, als über all das Elend zu
heulen.
English:
Some musicians are easy too clever and at the same time too amusing to be successful in these oh so serious - and thus successful-greedy world. If I am glad that not everyone allows to discourage the likes of JoosTVD of it who can publish every year an album more fully musically of great songs.
It is about conspiracy in the jacuzzi, paranoic with rattles, the narcissism of the media society or poor shoeshine boy's boys. Besides, rock on radio, jazz, Latin and shamelessly poppige melodies hits. And now and again Joost van Dinter gets out even a Slide to play his guitars.
Clear there is in the songs a lot of humor – who pursues, however, JoosTVD like me for years away with his music, that learns him, in addition love as an incredibly reflected and sensitive musician who laughs simply rather, than to howl about all misery.