Hai there! Hope you're all enjoying your rest. Now get up!
Sometimes I have an enormous urge to do a complete make-over. Yes it's that time. My face needs a lift(!). Ahem, yeah wait for it.
Nope, it's just that some platforms needed some reworking, in my case Bandcamp. There's a lot you can add to a release (pictures, etc). I found out that a few older releases had just one or two tracks on them, so I've uploaded the full albums:
have got the "full album" treatment. Some tracks don't even appear on the official Spotify/ iTunes releases. Which ones? You figure it out.
You can pay what you want or have it freely handed over with a click (only your emailadres is required, so I can SPAM you, gna, gna)
You want free links? Yeah, they can be found somewhere around this blog...
Ok, we have all been waiting so long...no you didn't!
It's almost a year now since the man left the planet.....so the right moment for me to put out that video for "Velvet Shoes" that I've promised. It's the last thing I do for my the album "I MImic Me", because I'm already on a whole other level in the process of creation: got some brand new songs coming up! Yes, it never stops (I'm glad), just can't sit still. Excited!
Busy
I have put a lot of work in this, mostly a drawing supporting video. It shows me (wishing it is me that is walking on the wild side) and some different familiar Lou's most of the time, all sequenced rhythmically in a lot of frames. That took ages, before I was really satisfied. For the singalong fan I've included lyrics to yell out.
Originaly I had some black & white drawings. Later on I "coloured" them in with a handy online photo editer called Picmonkey. You can see and read about them in my earlier posts if you like sketches.
!Viewers with photosensitive epilepsy, beware of visual intensity!
Enjoy and spread 'em!
LyricsVelvet Shoes
Now Andy Boy And Mary Lou
They Used To Wear Those VELVET SHOES
They Did The Walk On The Very Wild Side
In The White Heat And The White Light
Now Mary Lou She Used To Play
All Of Your Records On A Perfect Day
Until She Couldn't Listen No More
Now She's Walking Out Of The Door
You Want To Have a Good Time
You Want To Get It Out Of Your Mind
You Want A Change Of The Scene
You Can Blame It On The New York Dream
Well You're Wasting Time
Your Precious Time
Drinking Cheap Cheap Wine
All Of The Time
Now You're Out Of Your Mind
But You Have A Good Time
Down In Your Hole
Hey LOU This Is My Ode To You
Finally Learned To Talk Like
You're Supposed To Do
Maybe I Walk More On The Safer Side
Well This Ain't The Big Apple
But I Give It A Try
I Have Jolly Good Time
I Want To Get It Out Of My Mind
I Wanna Change Of The Scene
I Blame It On The New York Dream
I'm Wasting Time.....
1.Hey José, where the hell have you been? 2.Where is that tribute video of Lou Lou you've been promising since don't know when?
1.Relaxing in the backgarden thinking about what to do with that bonus
Ok, sometimes I'm so deep down digging in my musical cave, I don't even know where the entrance was. Too pre-occupied with the nice moments of inspiration maybe, but on the other hand I am a compassionate familyman for the full 101%.
So to answer those obvious questions:
1. I'm "always" writing, playing, noodling, even at night, a burst of silent energy has to be written down in words. Kicks all around! The new music is very groovy, funky, slick and dirty, I can't stop this hypnosis.
I can relax a bit. See picture: a few weeks back I found out I've earned a "few" bucks on licenses at Jamendo. More than I could have imagined!
Since I've been distributing my music on Jamendo, a lot of people have listened to my stuff and even more effectively, have used it as background music for their benefit, like public places, projects, restaurants and more.
It's about being played. Streaming is not that profitable now for artists maybe, but it will, because more and more people do that. Downloading (piracy, iTunes) is outa here!
Radioplays are the best way reach more people. As you know Croydon radio (suburb London) has been playing my songs (playlisted) almost every week since the beginning of 2013. (Brouhaha, Stupid Song(s), The Route Through The Quiet Jungle, Talkwalk, Trip Together, The Root Of My Belly, Alice Tea, I See You, Cowboy On The Moon, Social Suicide have been played on various radioshows). Here's the list of the most played 499 artists on Croydon (I am on number 10!) Croydon most played all time
2.Try to make a nice fitting video, well it's a difficult thing to do that yourself as an amateur. Even though I'm not a professional with the best movie editing skills, I can still see all those nice little drawings I spontaniously scribbled down (Scribbles) a few months ago, come together more and more as I flesh out all the tiny, little details in those moving frames. All it needs a bit more time and... time is the healer.
Quick update...
Hey, folks from the other side! Just came back from a trip to Madrid. A beautiful place if you like art and cities that go on 24/7. I surely needed some distance from my music room. Needed a dose of fresh inspiration.
You all may think: he's obsessed with that Lou Reed. Noooo! Well a little maybe.
I wrote a tribute song (Velvet Shoes) and from there the story went even further. It started out with some spontanious drawing, some sketches that gave me an idea for a video. The colouring I did online with a nice photo editor, Picmonkey
Finish what you started they always say (at least my mom and dad did).
I studied some famous and some unfamiliar "street" pictures of Lou, just to creep inside his character. It's a lot of hard and difficult work for an amateur, because smooth framing and perfect timing those pictures with the flow of the music, eats away concentration and drives you crazy, so you have to stop in time. These are some examples of the portrets I'll be using. Hope you like!
In the meantime, I'm in the middle of the crossroads. I mean, which way José with the songwriting? I've got lots of nice ideas, but I don't know which will work best, especially for my limited voice. Some are very humorous, some are sad. I like both directions though, so now what? Don't push, let it flow, walk on boy......CU!
Hai there, fellow world citizens, hope you're all doing well......even when the ups seem to be going down, there's always music to comfort you in all in its mysterious ways. Since I don't know when, I've been enjoying that magical mystery of discovering new or old sounds. And when I'm hooked, I want to hear the whole story (also the really "bad" albums that artists have put out, they are there for a reason!). I also read a lot about the background of an artist/band and about the specific period when they had their thrills and frills. More mystery, curiosty kills the cat! Details about their spent youth I find mostly boring though, but that's the unavoidable, cliché part of biographies. As is the road to hell and back (drugs, more drugs, meditation, fame, goeroes, religion, good or bad music and more drugs), but I also find this a fascinating and welcome treat.
A different approach to this, Ray Davies did with his X-Ray book. Almost in a Wellesian thriller-like surreal way, he reflects back on his life. Excellent.
Sometimes the most narcistic auto-bios are the most fun to read, like the ones from the ex-members of KISS (no, I'm not a fan, just curious), Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. Talking about the typical sex, drugs rollercoaster stories and how they reflect back on their masks and..... lizzard-tongue Gene Simmons haha. Yes, some of those life lessons you just don't want to try out at home!
Vanished Dutchmen
Youtube is growing in numbers and in songs. Any prolific artist/band has got a "topic" there, generating all the stuff relating to your own favourites for easy access. Great when you're just reading another biography of Zappa, Townshend, Barrett and the like, you can create a fitting biography playlist to set the mysterious mood...
I will not write a biography of this vanished dutchman, no. I did not do drugs, banged the other man's wife or trashed the occasional hotel room, or did I? When I was young and o-so selfimportant brash, it was the grey, boring and fricking Eighties man! I'm so neat.....
But... JoosTVD has got few vids up there on Youtube (JoosTVD Topic), some have been uploaded by me from my own JoosTVD official (this is the stuff for biography-philes to find out about TVD), but a lot by one of my distribution labels iMusician. You can subscibe to different channels (pop, urban, rock, etc) up there. As common with all stream platforms, it's just another fun way to create personal playlists within a few clicks. So all my favourite artist are up there as "Topics".
The same is happening on facebook by the way, here's my topic of That Vanished Jojo. It's all generated by different sources and the listening behaviour of the curious ones.
Still, with all this accessibility, I will not, ever, give away my vinyl, cassettes, singles, cds, self-build racks, it's my life, you're talking about here, man!
So gather all your favourites and read some, I'm going back to my favourite drug....Bye, buy!
Updated the old "Grabbelton", changed it in my own (digital) free record store (well the old one in the Netherlands has closed its doors now). Open 24/7! Just search and you'll find...
Take a holiday?
Yes that would be nice, but what do you do when an album is finished?
Walking Dutchman
Well, all birds that can, fly away. Babies grow up and leave you ultimately.
Songs? They will float in digital space and I'm content with that. After a year of explosive and enthousiastic writing, playing, recording, singing, mixing and videomaking, there's always that difficult phase/ moment I'm going through of letting them go. When I'm fed up listening maybe...haha.
A lot has happened since my last album came out though, like more radio airplay, reviews and reaching a few new listeners. All because of the way the digital world works these days. Happy now?
Well yes, but it's like a beautiful feelgood movie that has ended and you just don't want it to end.
Work!
So what mostly works for me when I cannot touch the old songs anymore and at the same time to create a little distance with them, is the "go ahead, write some new tunes" attitude. And so the whole proces begins again. Don't know where it ends though, but do I really want to know? It only makes you uncertain of what will happen (writer's block!?) and it can spoil the surprise of finding fresh melodies. And they always come unexpectedly! I'm already busy with capturing the right words to 2 songs I've completely recorded and arranged instrumentally. One has got fast-paced latin feel and the other has got a funky groove with a jazzy, romantic melody. Just what I needed!
Lou?
Next to all this soulsearching and songcatching inspiration, I'll be working on a video that will support "Velvet Shoes", my tribute to the late Louie Reed.
Before I became this addicted musician, I already did something with my creativity, something my parents used to demonstrate to me when I was a greenish little kid. I became especially fascinated with the technique of drawing faces.
As you already can see, these are a few portrets that I will use in comic-style, but there are a lot details that I still have to work on. Although I'm just another Youtube amateur, I' m very excited about it, so that will also keep me busy for a while.
Je größer die Zahl von Autorinnen und Autoren in unserem Magazin wird,
desto mehr Vorschläge kommen, wie man unsere Arbeit verbessern kann. Das
ist absolut großartig. Denn mit der Zeit entwickelt man doch eine Art
Tunnelblick von Monat zu Monat, versucht lediglich, möglichst viele
Artikel und Rezensionen zu bekommen. Und man denkt dabei zu wenig über
die Zugänglichkeit der Inhalte und ihre Präsentation nach. Und wenn dann
Fragen kommen, wie denn die Entscheidung für das jeweilige Album des
Monats getroffen wird, muss man jedes Mal neu erklären. So werde ich ab
sofort diejenigen Alben, die in der engeren Wahl zum Album des Monats
standen, und die durch die Bank weg sehr empfehlenswert sind, nochmals
gesondert präsentieren.
(english)
The greater the number of authors and female authors becomes in our magazine, the more suggestions come as one can improve our work. This it is absolutely great. Since, nevertheless, with the time one develops a kind tunnel look of month by month, tries merely, possibly many to get article and reviews. And, besides, one thinks not enough the accesibility of the contents and her presentation after. And if then questions come, how then the decision for the respective album of month it is dripped, one must explain every time anew. Thus I become from immediately those albums, in the narrower choice to the album of the month stood, and every single away are very recommendable, again
separately present arms.
Recommendations derRedaktion
1. Big Daddy Wilson Trio -
Live in Europe from Bremen
to Paris (S.
2. Dave Moretti Blues Revue
- Th ats Swing
3. JoosTVD - I Mimic Me
4. Mark Harrison - Th e
World Outside
5. Meena Cryle & Th e Chris
Fillmore Band - Tell Me
6. Th e Holmes Brothers -
Brotherhood
7. Th e KutiMangoes - Afro-
Fire
8. Th omas Stelzer - Fuff tsch
9. Tommy Schneller - Cream
of the Crop
10. Tweed Funk - First Name
Lucky
You can download as pdf and read that german review and many other cultural ditties, mine on page 51.
Hai there,
It's always a pleasure to know that what you do is appreciated. There's a lot talent out there and I'm not here to win a contest, just wanna create songs! And I'm already busy with a few that will definately become future hits. Not in my lifetime, no.
I let my music spread as far and as wide as possible, but I guess it's just a raindrop that's reaching a few listeners, but what the heck...
Ok, now it's out of the bag...
As usual (am I boring, predictable?), once a year I invite the listeners to read about the "inside" story of a new album. How I vanish into my reclusive hole and come back with some new, fresh & above all: haha, brilliant music. But hey, there's no hidden message here!. For me, music has to be fun, joy, melodic, funky, over the top, ironic, colourful and full of character. I Mimic Me.
After my last album "The Ballooning Brouhaha" floated through digital spaces, I immediately sat down to the work. Ideas "always" come quick, emotions keep pouring out of my fingertips. But how to shape them in attractive little ditties?
I always start recording with a basic track (rhythm pattern) and the first instrument (piano, guitar) I've chosen to write on. I want to record as fast as possible to capture the energy and/or the emotion of that particular "high" moment of inspiration. Record as if in "performance". Forget "studio".
Choices, doubts, solutions, inspiration going back and forth. Well, mostly for me, I'm working around the more technical shortcommings I have as a recording-in the flesh- musician. So the last few years I've been watching some show-off sound engineer pros showing their flashy studio stuff on Youtube. There are a lot of choices you can make, details you can alter with your workstation (Pro Tools is mine), especially in the mixing process, which makes the whole process even more challenging to keep things as organic as possible.
As long as it helps me further. But it all starts with a tight rehearsed performance, so what you can't fix....
Listen carefully!
Now, press on your application of choice (sorry no vinyl), like Deezer, Spotify or iTunes or maybe your free download and let those little stories stir up your imagination.
01.Cowboy On The Moon
Build around a chord progression I luckely found on the piano almost a year ago(!). I wrote a few countermelodies (guitar and woodwinds) that brought more layered excitement arrangementwise that I wanted for the song. I had lot of fun with this one, never stopped developping ideas in that department. Took a long time to write about cowboys-no indians-but moons though...
O U T L A W
02.Velvet Shoes
This took 3 minutes to write, but the vision to work it out, took a lot longer....
You can guess this is about Lou Reed, my indirect connection with him, expressed in a an uplifting, I hope, tribute song. His death and his music got me closer again to the legend and his work (my fave is 1973's Berlin). Yes, I tried to use some of his typical pronounciation (but "I mimic me" right?) and a few of his familiar lines (wild side, white heat white light). Fun song!
Btw, great read: two biographies of Lou and the Velvet Underground by Victor Bockris.
N E W Y O R K
03.Buy (Bye Bye)
Topic: a pact with the devil/Faust: selling out in favor of becoming successful. Bye, buy...
I used this funkbeat for intensity, although I can never be that hypnotic like James Brown, but I can in a, uuh, funny JoosTVD kind of way.
F A U S T
04.Ballroom Blues
Overblown ballroom showstopper (took a lot of mindslapping working this out!) about windbags and other loudmouths. You know who you are. Now shut the f... up!
O V E R K I L L
05.Social Suicide
One of those fun songs that wrote itself and relatively quick both musically and lyrically. All 13 songs came quick, but mostly musically.The choice of intruments, how to colour the arrangements...they' re already there in my head when I wrote this song.
H A P P I N E S S
06.I Mimic Me
Here I go again! The same burst of creativity happened like song 5. Short and sweet. I really like that. Maybe the next time I can put out an album even quicker. Well.....these explosive moments are rare though. And I love what Jack Bruce did with Kip Hanrahan. (great album: Vertical Currency 1984)
M I R R O R
07.Different Kind Of Cool
Yeah, a fast, funpowerpop rocksong. Something (rock) I do not do often, but it gives the album a different- rockier- colour.
O U T C A S T
08.Intermission Of Love
Hey lunch hour! A little (one minute!) Tin Pan Alley love song. Yes, I really love the creativity of Irving berlin and Cole Porter. These chords say it all: melodic, romantic. Ahh, my soft side...
S I N P A N A L L E Y
09.Cats (Walk With A Swagger)
One of the first tunes I wrote for this album. It gave me purpose of direction. A lot of funny (real cat sounds) stuff happening, surprising breaks and stops in combination with melodies. (thanks to Arto Lindsay & the Ambitious Lovers)
D O G G Y C A T
10.Sin Pan Alleyman
Unexpectacly, former musical mate Wijnand Brant (WB) helped me out with his unstoppable fingers & guitars on this forgotten instrumental idea, one of many I've piled up on my harddisk.
(C O N) F U S I O N ? !
11.Lovesong For The Ghetto
Wrote this relatively quick on guitar, sang the title (and liked the melodic refrain a lot) and voila...it's a bit dark (ghetto), but eased, counterbalanced with some eerie female voices, which I found fitting with my own low male singing.
G H E T T O
12.Coffin Song
Also one of the first more uplifting (listen to the guitar chords, variations in D), funky song I wrote, musically that is. The theme is a little dark though: "put the sickness in the ground". No, no cofee needed. A coffin with a "n". Not a special message I have here, it's just dark humor, sardonic wordplay.
C O F F I N
13.I See You
To counterbalance the more energetic songs, there' s always some sort of melancholic ballad I come up with- developped on the piano- after much rehearsel, this was recorded live. I've tried to come up with something uplifting, melodic, not too self-important or dramatic.
P I A N O
14.Cowboy In Your Room
Reprising song nr.1 here, it has got a few nice breaks in it, so the idea for an instrumental promo (see video post) was born.
P R O M O
Okay, here's the playlist for tonight: 1 Johnny Angel You Got Me Jumpin 2 Dave Moretti Blues Revue Good Morning Judge 3 The Holmes Brothers Stayed At The Party 4 Blue Ribbon Sweet Sixteen 5 Blue Ribbon Breaking Up Somebody's Home 6 Saidah Baba Talibah Revolution 7 Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band Take This Pressure Off Of Me 8 Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band Give It Back 9 Mary Washington Brooks Leave Your Checkbook On The Bed 10 Back On The Road If I Was No King 11 Albert Castiglia Sway 12 Andres Roots & Raul Terpe Pärnu Hambone 13 Jonah Gold & His Silver Apples I Can Tell 14 Big Daddy Wilson Trio Baby's Coming Home 15 Mark Harrison Hard Times 16 Maik W. Garthe Black Lemon 17 Brandon Isaak Gamble On Love 18 Brandon Isaak Up The Frisco Line 19 Thomas Stelzer Ev'rybody Loves Saturdaynight 20 Thomas Stelzer John & Mac In Dublin 21 Fabian Fritz Big Chief 22 The Kuti Mangoes Fire 23 Avner Strauss African Magician 24 Avner Strauss Blues Together !!!25 JoosTVD Cowboy On The Moon 26 Dave Moretti Blues Revue That's Swing 27 The Holmes Brothers Amazing Grace
So glad with this. Some feedback! He (Nathan Nörgel) knows his way with words and you have to read carefully to fully understand the german symbolic meanings he gives of various songs. So I'll give you a "not so perfect" translation after. If you understand it, tell me! If you don't, well I can try to explain!
Original:
Auch auf seinem bislang zehnten (wie immer nur rein digital
veröffentlichten) Album, bleibt der niederländische Songwriter Joos TVD
alias The Vanished Dutchman vor alleim eines: unwahrscheinlich
unterhaltsam. Musikalisch erkundet er auf „I Mimic Me“ so ziemlich jedes
Territorium zwischen Rock, Fusion-Jazz, Pop und sogar Blues.
Mit Blues hat es der Multiinstrumentalist eigentlich nicht so. Umso
überraschter war ich, als ich auf der Tracklist des neuen Albums einen
Titel namens Ballroom Blues entdeckte. Doch wer jetzt auf die heiligen
zwölf Takte wartet, der kennt Joos TVD schlecht. Denn das Stück über
vergebliche Versuche, als jemand anderes wahrgenommen zu werden ist
anfangs Rock, zwischendurch bricht es kurz in swingende Jazzgefilde auf.
Und insgesamt ist das wieder ein melancholisch-humorvoller Song, wie
ihn heutzutage vielleicht auch Zappa hätte schreiben können. Der Anfang
von „I Mimic Me“ hatte mich da musikalisch schon mehr überrascht. Denn
Stücke wie „Cowboy On The Moon“ oder „Velvet Shoes“ perlen zunächst
elegant wie der jazzige Pop von Steely Dan.
Was mir besonders auffällt, ist die Melancholie der Lieder, die oft nur
wenig von der Musik verstellt wird. Hier - und damit sind wir beim
Titel des Albums - versucht der Künstler, sich selbst als Kind
nachzuahmen. Und natürlich ist das zum Scheitern verurteilt. Was
unwahrscheinlich schade ist. Denn als Erwachsener ist man bei aller
Anstrengung oft nicht mehr als ein „Cowboy On The Moon“, also völlig am
falschen Platz, man begeht unablässig sozialen Selbstmord, wenn man sich
um die Regeln nicht schert.
Selbst die Beziehungen drohen an solchen Banalitäten zu scheitern, dass
man selbst seine Katze liebt, während die Partnerin in ihren Hund
vernarrt ist und die beiden Tiere sich vertragen wie Schweine und
Frösche. Also wie sprichwörtlich Hund und Katze.
„I Mimic Me“ - ein tolles Album musikalisch und auch von den Texten
her. Und auch wenn hier die Musik ganz dem Thema entsprechend Stile der
letzten Jahrzehnte nachahmt, heißt dass noch längst nicht, dass die
Stücke von Joost van Dinther nicht äußerst orginell wären. (bandcamp)
English:
On
his tenth so far (as always purely digitally published) album, the
Dutch songwriter Joos TVD aka The Vanished Dutchman remains: unlikely entertaining. Musically, he explored on 'I Mimic Me'
pretty much every territory between rock, fusion jazz, pop and even
blues.
With blues, this multi-instrumentalist has actually not so. The more
surprised I was when I discovered a title called Ballroom Blues on the
tracklist of the new album. But who is now waiting for the holy twelve
bars knows Joos TVD bad. Because the piece on futile attempts to be
perceived as someone else's first rock, between it breaks up briefly in
swinging Jazzgefilde. And overall, this is again a melancholic and
humorous song, like him nowadays perhaps Zappa could have written. The
beginning of 'I Mimic Me' had me as musically surprised even more. For
songs like 'Cowboy On The Moon' or 'Velvet Shoes' pearls initially
elegant as the jazzy pop of Steely Dan.
What I notice is the melancholy of the songs that is often adjusted
only slightly from the music. Here - and brings us to the title of the
album - the artist tries to imitate himself as a child. And of course,
this is doomed to failure. What is unlikely shame. Because as an adult
you are with all the effort often no more than a 'Cowboy On The Moon',
so completely the wrong place, one commits suicide relentlessly social,
if you do not care about the rules.
Even the relationships threaten to fail in such banalities that even
he loves his cat, while the partner is fond of her dog and the two animals
get along like pigs and frogs. So like the proverbial dog and cat.
'I Mimic Me' - a great album musically and also from the lyrics
here. And even if mimicking the music here all the topic according to
the style of the last few decades, that is, by no means, that the pieces
of Joost van Dinther would not be extremely orginal. (Bandcamp)
Dutch:
Op
zijn tiende tot dusver (zoals altijd puur digitaal gepubliceerd) album,
de Nederlandse songwriter Joos TVD aka The Vanished Nederlander blijft
vooral: onwaarschijnlijk onderhoudend. Muzikaal verkende hij op
'Ik Mimic Me' vrijwel elk gebied tussen rock, fusion jazz, pop en zelfs
blues.
Met blues, heeft het multi-instrumentalist eigenlijk niet zo. Des te meer
verbaasde mij toen ik ontdekte een titel genaamd Ballroom Blues op de
tracklist van het nieuwe album. Maar wie zit nu te wachten op de heilige
twaalf bars dan kent die Joos TVD slecht. Omdat het stuk op vergeefse
pogingen worden gezien als iemand anders eerste rock, tussen het breekt
kort in swingende Jazzgefilde. En over het algemeen, dit is weer een
melancholisch en humoristische lied, zoals hij tegenwoordig misschien
Zappa had kunnen schrijven. Het begin van 'I Mimic Me' had mij als
muzikaal verrast zelfs meer. Voor nummers als 'Cowboy On The Moon' of
parels 'Velvet Shoes' aanvankelijk elegant als de jazzy pop van Steely
Dan.
Wat ik merk is de melancholie van de nummers die vaak slechts in
geringe mate wordt aangepast van de muziek. Hier - en brengt ons naar de
titel van het album - de kunstenaar probeert zichzelf te imiteren als
een kind. En natuurlijk, dit is gedoemd te mislukken. Wat is
onwaarschijnlijk schande. Omdat als een volwassene je bent met al de
moeite vaak niet meer dan een 'Cowboy On The Moon', zo helemaal de
verkeerde plaats, een zelfmoord pleegt meedogenloos sociale, als je niet
de zorg over de regels.
Zelfs de verhoudingen dreigen te mislukken in zulke banaliteiten dat
zelfs hij van zijn kat houdt, terwijl de partner is dol op haar hond en de twee
dieren opschieten zoals varkens en kikkers. Dus als de
spreekwoordelijke hond en kat.
'Ik Mimic Me' - een goed album muzikaal en ook uit de teksten hier.
En zelfs als het nabootsen van de muziek hier al het onderwerp volgens
de stijl van de laatste decennia, dat wil zeggen, geenszins, dat de
stukken van Joost van Dinther zou niet extreem orgineel zijn. (Bandcamp)
Well, good folks of mother earth, I was pleasantly surprised when I heard that the new album arrived yesterday on Spotify. Next came iTunes. That's what I call fast delivery! Thanks to Routenote.
Routenote, my distribution label (spotify, itunes, deezer,...) is partners with YouTube now. That means, all of my video content will be automatically recognised as a topic. Read about it here
So- as enthousiastic as I am to spread the new stuff- yesterday, I
uploaded an upcoming promo video for the new album, but that got me in
"trouble" with a copyright claim from...ahum, Routenote. Of course I always upload under my REAL name (who am I anyway?), so they didn't recognize that it was JoosTVD himself! pfffffff... Well, after a few mail exchanges, it's all solved now
(Btw, the new promo/teaser (and a few other funny vids) will-hopefully- see the light of day soon, soon! So why don't you serve yourself another cup of joe and subscribe?) The JoosTVD topic is here
Update!
What time is it? Yes exactly time for a brand new TVD album!
Routenote has approved the album so distribution is on its way.
I'm so excited about the songs!
Now keep your/my fingers crossed..... Still 4 to 6 weeks to go though, but iTunes & Spotify are fast, so check them and tell me!
In the meantime, here are the covers:
Front
About the Title I Mimic Me
Narcistic as hell that title. It sounds fun to me. "I do Lou Reed better than anyone" Lou Reed confessed to a crowd once. Well in my case, when you reach a sudden age (?), you've come full circle. You learn to accept what you've become (pros & negs) on your own level.
So on the frontcover there's a little me, about 10 years old, in a rare state of relaxing, grinning shyly and there's the grown-up old farty me, trying more or less, but fail to mimic the younger me. Mmmm...
Back
As you can see, 13 songs (+ song 14 is the instrumental promo version of song 1) again, just like last time. Yes, I've got lots of more songs in the bag, but these are chosen as the best buy.
Btw, I also got a few funny vids in the making for ya, so...
Sort of an alternative of the previous one, these are some of my personal faves. An addition to Sin Pan Alley for the new potentional listener or the nostalgic one. It's only on Amazon, which has an option to sell your products and that gave me the idea of this compilation part 2.
The real new album wants to come out, but there are a few "minor" details getting in the way, like balancing out the mix, vocals pitching...aaahhrrggh. Got my ears focused.
But I'm very excited about the new stuff and with distribution time, I'll expect a spring release. I'll keep you posted ASAP. Got a nice little promo in the near future for ya too.
Meanwhile, why don't ya take a listen? Just Think Pan Alley!
Never meant to do this. Everytime I finish an album, I already work on another one. But 9 digital albums is a lot to listen to these days, so...yes, it's a sort of a favourites album I've put together for iTunes via iMusician Digital. Sure, everyone's got their own faves. It' s just a snapshot, hence the cheesy, rare picture of me (about 10 years old) laying on the couch, relaxing. A lot of songs to choose from. My Tin pan Alley.
But I won't look back!
The real new album is now in its finishing stages. Busy mixing, listening, mixing....update follows.
In the meantime why not have a "nostalgic" listen?
A request for a download anyone? Well, you can always ask me and I'll put a link up here or there...
2013? Lou Reed is gone. Not a perfect day, but......reminds me how big his influence as an artist is, now even more.
But success in the music business is a very relative thing and Lou did his time in the rodeo.
2013? More and more people decide to try out the bumpy road to fame and fortune. They often wonder why the glamour doesn't happen or... not as quickly and sensational as on TV. You sister says it's good, so.....duh?!
2013? You have to ease down a bit and take a deep breath. I think there's a lot more pros in it for us all in the end.
Yes, create excitement! You can still play the live-circuit and sell a few cd's afterwards, but on top of that-with a little bit of healthy self-reflection and some bold determination-you can get your own fifteen minutes. You can easily spread and share the best(!) of your (musical) works in a digital way (Fandalism, Jamendo, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Youtube) and create your own "fans". If they like your music, they can spread it for you among their buddies. Some of these potentials can become loyal listeners, others will move on. A lot of helpful recourses to try out in your favor, a great one is Tom Robinson's Fresh On The Net.
2013? Nowadays you can bring out a new album without any restrictions of a label. I know it will give the listeners way too much to listen to. But I think the level of musicianship/produktion is so way up high, you can easily filter the bad from the goody, goody stuff.
2013? So glad my humble latest "The Ballooning Brouhaha" has brought me a few more new listeners and podcasters. It got me more feedback, radioplays (Croydon radio London, Tom Robinson's BBC6 Mixtape, Radio 98Eins Germany, got reviews from loyal journalists like Nathan Norgel). Yes, times have changed. Next year there'll be a new one, right on schedule.
1975! Back in the glam/disco/pre-punk days...
As I became such a crazy, curious and fanatic music lover when I was fresh and wet behind the ears, I used to tape every new, exciting tune I heard on the radio. Saved every dime I could to spent it on the new one of Bowie, Roxy Music, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller, Zappa, John Martyn, Steely Dan and many more just for discovery purposes. I followed and supported their careers, even if the albums got crappier. Expectations. The human factor.
The excitement of discovery. Especially Zappa albums (talking vinyl here!) were unavailable or very expensive, so I was always glad to find one in a secondhand store. I spent hours and hours of magic shopping in Amsterdam (one called Concerto, 4 stores full of rare stuff) and I' m still proud of all those rare, often unknown and often pricey (aargh!) gems I've found there.
2013? Along the years I have created my own "recordstore" (a small music library of about 13.000 cd's, 1500 vinyl). Freedom for my ears, food for the mind & soul and not least inspiration for my own creations. I shall not count a 3TB harddisk full of the rest in mp3 format though. Modern times.
2013? I have never stopped looking for another obscure album.
The discovery is everywhere, not far away, just one mouseclick....voila! Streaming is the new buy.
So here are my most spotified albums of 2013 (very close but no sigar: the magnificent and surprising stragedy (marketing!) aka comeback album of Bowie, the verrrry Beatlesesque album of McCartney or the seemingly interesting Elvis Costello/ Roots combination, all simply great to have back for their age(!), but in my opinion, not all that strong compositionwise, but what do I expect): Jonathan Wilson- Fanfare
Yes, I don' t like retro! But even if this recalls the seventies, it's is done in a very colourful, loving and organic way. The guest list, Crosby & Nash harmonies deja vuing around beautiful melodies. And there's also excitement in the playing and variety in the arrangements.
Darth Vegas- Brain Washing For Dirty Minds (Ok late 2012 release, late discovery)
10 years after their even crazier debut came this Zappa-esque slapstickrollercoaster of sounds. Full of funny musical surprises. Everytime I laugh my ass off when I play these 2 records.Long live Zappa.
Janelle Monae- Electric Lady
A grower. Had to listen again and again, it just crept under my skin.
Prefab Sprout- Crimson/Red
So glad Paddy came out of his cave! No surprises here. Songwriting to the core. And for the sensational background information, here's a few books I've read this year. As usual, mostly sleezy biographies. Recommended:
Neil Young- Waging Heavy Peace Nick Kent, Apathy for the Devil A Seventies Memoir
Ryan O'Neal - Both
of Us
Victor Bockris-
Up-Tight The Velvet Underground Story
Marc Elliot- Paul Simon
Ray Manzarek- Light My Fire
Garth Bardsley- Stop The World (Anthony Newley)
Billy James- A Dream Goes On Forever (Todd
Rundgren) Vol.1 & 2
Paul Meyers- A Wizard A True Star (Todd Rundgren In The Studio)
Al Kooper- Backstage
Passes & Backstabbing Bastards
Why do so many Dutch people cycle? This is because of a vast network of cycle paths that are clearly
marked, with smooth surfaces, separate signs and lights, and wide enough
to allow side-by-side cycling and overtaking. Sure, but sometimes these paths are so crowded indeed, you don' t see the marks.
How do Dutch people meet each other?!
The Dutch are quite direct (can be seen as a bit rude perhaps) but not straightforward at all. Guess I' m rude sometimes. Although I' m a very private, introverted guy, I often try to break the ice, by teasing a stranger or joking around.
Well, I'm a dutch man, that' s why I ask. But I don' t sing in dutch, I just...can't. Yes I know, I' ve got a thick accent when I use my tongue for english, but what the heck.
Maybe there's a title in there for the new "Vanished Dutchman" album coming up in 2014.
When? I' ll let you know. The finishing of it all is the most intensive of the whole process.
I' ve got 14 songs for ya, chosen from about 30. I just need some smooth lyrics and a very thick accent for 7 of them to get there. Some tunes came very quick, so they motivated me the most to finish. Others need more time and space. But I won' t push.
A year after "Bomb Won' t Go Off" got airplay on BBC, "Stupid Song(s)"has been chosen by BBC6 DJ Tom Robinson (2-4-6-8 Motorway, War baby, Listen To The Radio). Grateful for this. A little british recognition is always good for a dutch soul!
Freshnet Mixtape info JOOSTVD – Stupid Song(s) [Starts: 36:33] https://www.facebook.com/JoosTVDmusic
The last tune we heard from JoosTVD on the Introducing Mixtape was Bomb
Won´t Go Off in November 2012. His hard-to-pronounce artist name makes
more sense once you realise it stands for Joost The Vanished Dutchman.
“Maybe” he confides “it’ s best pronounced like this: Juiced?” Inspired
by the likes of Zappa, Todd Rundgren, Miles Davis, Steve Winwood, John
Martyn and many others, Joost Van Dinther (JOOSTVD,
geddit?) started out as a drummer before turning his hand to writing.
This perhaps explains the unerring feel for a killer groove which –
together with a well-developed sense of fun – it the trademark of his
work. Although most of the recordings are played and produced by Joost
on his own, he loves to play live with a band and “give it all” on
stage. His latest album, The Ballooning Brouhaha was released in June
2013 and he’s already busy with a followup bunch of tunes coming up in
2014 with distribution by Routenote.
Yes, I've been piling them up. Songs keep flowing in and out of my brains. Grooves and melodies. I'm not the only one of course. Don't want to compare myself with someone I look up to. Next to Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach and John Lennon there is Paddy-Prefab Sprout- McAloon, one of the last great songwriters, who I really admire, who has finally come back with a great new record "Crimson/ Red". Now for those, who've missed the best part of the often called notorious eighties music, listen to some REAL songs here: Prefab on Spotify. He has been piling up stuff for years, but as is common knowledge with all the geniuses, he's such a perfectionist, I don't even come close.....
Glad you're back Paddy!
So here's something I don't do often. Sharing some of the things I've been working on while not finished. Or is it? Knowing that it's not original, I'd like to step away from the safe tradition that I only want to share my babies, when they are ready to step into the world of streaming pleasure. This is my addiction to grooves and this funky tune came very quick. It's really about the intensity, I try to capture here. Banging away again on different instruments (piano, organ, bass, guitars), searching for patterns that fit together. Although I started out as a drummer (with an unbeatable Stewart Copeland fixation) and although I can play a saucy groove, I miss the finesses I hear in my head, to play fluent, fitting parts on these songs myself. So I use real, organic drumpatterns and alter, combine them as if I play them myself. Here's an example of such a groove, but keep in mind: it's not finishedyet, maybe I'll decide to throw it away in a moment of fustration, wahahaha....so grab it while it's hot.
Bare with me, to be or not to be consumed.
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