Hey, What's Happening....?

Well, I've vanished once again, remember....?  But all for one goal: to bring u the goods. Can't push it though, but again I'm in the middel of this energy flow of making music and there's still a lot to cover from my creative soul I guess! I just had to be patient. After a well deserved break, this time a holiday to one of the most beautiful and interesting places I've seen so far, Sint Petersburg and Moscow, old and new Russia, I'm refilled with a lot of new fresh fuel (no, no wodka), needed to get it together again.

Red square, Moscow

The most happy times are when I'm just working on new songs. I've been upgrading my studio equipment (worksations: the smaller Apollo Twin Quad has replaced my digidesign 003) and it shows. Wow, to me it sounds so much better now. Thanks!

A cherry on the top: a late review of my latest album in a dutch music magazine "Heaven":

Never too late...!

 JoosTVD
The Fly On The Wall Routine
AMAdea
dutch:
"Muzikale hinkstapsprongen
Ik moet eerlijk bekennen dat ik nog nooit van multi-instrumentalist/componist/zanger Joost van Dinther ("The Vanished Dutchman") had gehoord. The Fly On The Wall Routine is dan ook niet zijn proefstuk, sterker nog, het is zijn vijftiende release. In de 36 minuten die het schijfje telt, bewandel je als luisteraar allerlei muzikale paden: funk, fusion, pop, latin, r 'n b, softsoul en jazz, zonder dat het geheel gefragmenteerd overkomt. Allerlei acts komen binnenzeilen in je hersenpan, zoals Frank Zappa (de soms complexe songstructuren en zang), Gino Vanelli, Steely Dan, Robert Jan Stips en zelfs Gruppo Sportivo in het geinige Treason. Al dit namedroppen weerhoudt de doe-het-zelver er niet van om op de proppen te komen met sterke liedjes zoals het funky openingstrio Fly Talk, Stuck en Behave, het lekker lome Say The Word en het wellicht sterkste nummer, U Know That Now. Sterke plaat van deze muzieksurvivor."
Joop van Rossem

Magazine version

English:
 Musical hop jumps
I must admit that I have never heard of multi-instrumentalist / composer / singer Joost van Dinther ('The Vanished Dutchman'). The Fly On The Wall Routine is therefore not his test piece, in fact, it is his fifteenth release. In the 36 minutes that the disc counts, you walk all kinds of musical paths as a listener: funk, fusion, pop, latin, r 'n b, softsoul and jazz, without the whole thing appearing fragmented. All kinds of acts come sailing into your brain, such as Frank Zappa (the sometimes complex song structures and vocals), Gino Vanelli, Steely Dan, Robert Jan Stips and even Gruppo Sportivo in the fun Treason. All this named dropping does not stop the do-it-yourselfer from coming up with strong songs such as the funky opening trio Fly Talk, Stuck and Behave, the nicely lazy Say The Word and perhaps the strongest song, U Know That Now. Strong record of this music survivor.
 Joop van Rossem

TU!

And unexpectactly they have put me on this "Heaven radio playlist" on Pinguin radio with my song "Say The Word"
On Spotify: Heaven 5 2019

Nr.9: Say The Word!

Inspiration

Good news....

I am vanished..... again!

Climbing dutchman

Muziekwereld

Fred Pach, reviewer from 'Muziek Wereld' likes my music, even though he has decided not to write reviews, but only to share them from other online magazines. I'm glad he decided to put the new album on his site, it's all about exposure after all. He already wrote three great reviews for me. Thanks Fred!

Review 'Fly' on Muziek Wereld

Wow, just read the best ever review I've got!

JoosTVD – The Fly On The Wall Routine
Format: CD – Digital / Label: AMAdea
Releasedatum: 30 april 2019
Tekst: Peter Marinus    Blues magazine Review
Dutch:
Ik werd in 2018 op een erg prettige manier verrast door het vorige album van JoosTVD, ‘Just Say KNOW‘. Een album, dat voor mij één grote muzikale ontdekkingsreis was, waarbij er bij elke luisterbeurt weer nieuwe dingen opdoken.
We hebben hier te maken met songwriter Joost van Dinther, een muzikale doe-het-zelver, die al veertig jaar bezig is en inmiddels aan zijn vijftiende digitale release toe is.
En de muzikale ontdekkingsreis gaat gewoon verder met zijn nieuwste release.
Zoals we inmiddels van Joost gewend zijn opent hij het album met een nummer waarin weer van alles gebeurt. Zo is Fly Talk voorzien een romig funky geluid waarin invloeden als Gino Vannelli en Steely Dan rondwaren en waarin Joost zijn meest soulvolle stem opzet. Hij weet in dit romig groovende nummer de meest ingenieuze breaks in te passen.
Hoekige funkgrooves openen Stuck, een zeer loom en vet funky nummer met een warme synbass. Ook hier zijn de Steely Dan invloeden duidelijk aanwezig, vermengd met een flink jazz-funk geluid. Behave heeft een onweerstaanbaar funkritme met lichte Indiaanse trekjes via een “heya heya heya” koortje, en dat heb ik sinds de tijden van Redbone niet meer gehoord!
Say The Word opent met een subtiele akoestsche gitaar en deint zacht tikkend verder met een lui, tegen Kevin Ayers aanschurende, geluid. Ook het solowerk van Sting is in de buurt. Treason is een maf pompend toetsennummer waarin ik achtereenvolgens Supersister, Zappa, Gruppo Sportivo en Sparks voorbij zag trekken in een soort slapstick soundtrack.
Joost laat in het zwevende vaudeville nummer The Vanished Vaudeville zijn synthesizer als een soort theremine zweven. Een instrumental, die duidelijk in de Todd hoek zit terwijl ik er ook het geluid van de obscure Britse synthesizer band Seventh Wave in terug hoorde.
Kick Together is een swingend nummer, voorzien van zeer eigenzinnige, hoekige grooves. Een soort hikkerige funk dus met een geluid dat klinkt alsof Todd Rundgren is gaan samenwerken met The Yellow Magic Orchestra. Ook voor softsoul draait Joost zijn hand niet om getuige Not Today. Hij klinkt in dit nummer als Hall & Oates in hun beginperiode, Lou Rawls en Billy Paul en dat allemaal in een stuwend bombastisch soulnummer.
Daarna is Do Your Job een bizarre mengeling van wiebelige synthesizermuziek en easy listening-achtige getrompetter.
Na de luie mix van funk, Zuid-Amerikaanse muziek en fusion in U Know That Now wordt het album afgesloten met de sprankelende instrumentale mix van Prince funk, sunshine pop en Zappa in The Fly Off The Wall Routine. Een nummer dat geheel onverwachts op het eind overgaat in mysterieus schurende fusion.
JoosTVD heeft wederom een prachtig muzikaal avonturenboek afgeleverd. Een album dat je steeds maar weer opzet om nog meer muzikale ontdekkingen te doen. Ik kan nu al niet wachten op zijn volgende muzikale ontdekkingsreis!

English:
I was pleasantly surprised in 2018 by JoosTVD's previous album, \"Just Say KNOW.\" An album, which was a great musical journey of discovery for me, with new things popping up every time I listened.
We are dealing with songwriter Joost van Dinther, a musical do-it-yourselfer, who has been busy for forty years. and is now ready for his fifteenth digital release.

And the musical journey of discovery continues with his newest release.

Just like we are used to from Joost, he opens the album with a song in which everything happens again . For example, Fly Talk is provided with a creamy funky sound in which influences such as Gino Vannelli and Steely Dan are circulating and in which Joost sets up his most soulful voice. He knows how to fit the most ingenious breaks in this creamy grooving song.
Angular funk grooves open Stuck, a very slow and fat funky song with a warm synbass. Here too the Steely Dan influences are clearly present, mixed with a considerable jazz funk sound. Behave has an irresistible funk rhythm with light Indian traits through a “heya heya heya” choir, and I haven't heard that since the times of Redbone! , against Kevin Ayers scouring sound. Sting's solo work is also nearby. Treason is a weird pumping number in which I saw successively Supersister, Zappa, Gruppo Sportivo and Sparks pass by in a kind of slapstick soundtrack. An instrumental, clearly sitting in the Todd corner while I also heard the sound of the obscure British synthesizer band Seventh Wave in it.
Kick Together is a swinging song, with very quirky, angular grooves. A kind of furious funk with a sound that sounds like Todd Rundgren has started working with The Yellow Magic Orchestra. Also for softsoul, Joost does not turn his hand to witness Not Today. He sounds like Hall & Oates in this song in their early days, Lou Rawls and Billy Paul and all in a driving bombastic soul song.
Afterwards Do Your Job is a bizarre mix of wobbly synthesizer music and easy listening-like trumpeter. music and fusion in U Know That Now the album ends with the sparkling instrumental mix of Prince funk, sunshine pop and Zappa in The Fly Off The Wall Routine. A song that unexpectedly turns into mysteriously abrasive fusion at the end.

JoosTVD has once again delivered a beautiful musical adventure book. An album that you constantly set up to make even more musical discoveries. I can't wait for his next musical journey of discovery already!

On da Radio 2019

A little update about being played on the radio lately folks! Where?
Many of these songs have been played more than once, so thanks to the radio people! All fun for your ears and promo to my ego

This Is Only Rock Radio (Not Now, Don't Do It Again)
Lonely Oak Radio (Fly Talk, Behave, Roll Into A Ball, Indie, Blame Me For The Fun, The Vanished Romeo, Not Now, Gameface, Itch)
Radio Wigwam (Behave)
Amazing Radio (Not Now)

To my pleasant surprise, this saturday on Amazing Radio (british online), They have played "Not Now". A song from my 2018 album "Just Say Know". Just when I've got a bunch of new tunes to play...well, remember, they play JoosTVD. Exposure. Stay humble, say thank U!
Here on "The Far Side"

The Shift Radio Station (Private Scene, Not Now, Chameleon Girlfriend, Don't Do It Again, Rottendance)
RSI Jazz Radio Sud International  (The Root Of My Belly, Making Faces, Wonder, Violent Boy, Never Stop, Mumbo Jumbo Heebie Jeebies, Fundament Of Fun, You Know Your Dead)
Eclectic Storm Radio (Fly Talk)
Radio Delta
(Dare, Left, Jack And The Scandal Shop, Desertfly, Gotta Go Now, Ragman)
Barbwires Global Radio (Fly Talk, Stupid Songs, Don't Do It Again, The Vanished Romeo, Happy Pills, Chalky, Finger Ballet on WB Strings, Chameleon Girlfriend, Bomb Won't Go Off, Gameface)
O'Clock World (Not Now, Don't Do It Again)
Radio Kudos (Do)

I guess there's always more than meets the eye. just roam around the web and seek.

Bandcamp

So this is my routine, creating new tunes, breathing life into them. At last, but not least, bandcamp is always on my list of spreading my song around the globe.

The Fly On The Wall Routine

The Fly On the Wall Routine: the story behind the Songs

So! 2019, again, a whole year of exploring, writing, playing, recording, mixing 12 new songs. I must have a forbidden agenda in my head somewhere, because the workflow is- maybe predictably- the same everytime. For 40 years I've been exploring my inner creativity. It's like an hypnotic act of fate. I don't think, I do. It's my life in songs. I do think, just right now, after the whole process is over.
How can you describe this album?
The "fly on the wall" is a recognisable person, I guess. The observer, noticing, while watching a great scheme of things passing him/her by. Me? Sure....
For the sequence, the following consequential pattern arose: after an energetic song, a more relaxed one followed... et voila. Also, this album is divided in 2 parts: the first 6 songs each have a more free, stressless atmosphere, after "Kick Together", you'll find the more direct, social concience (serious) songs. Headphones ready?

01.Fly Talk
This was the breaktrough to start a new album. Recognise the fly on the wall type? Guess I'm one of those who kinda look, observe and take notice. This song I happened upon quickly, recorded in a flash. Funky flowing groove, mysterious in character with lots of chopping in between. Before this tune, I had a lot of sketches, motives and melodies for arrangements and other song-ideas and one of them became the instrumental song 12, sort of a coda. Fly talk: deep talk, no chicken talk.

02.Stuck
Laid back, but funky, jazzy Steely Dan-esque hence the chord progression, that's what I bring here. I never got stuck though.

03.Behave
Hypnotic, afro syncopic patterns. I had a lot of fun creating melodies and arrangements on this one. I created piano motifs that changed the vocals I first came up with.That's the way I work a lot: I loop a verse and play along with a guitar or piano to bring another colour to it.
It's all very free and playful, like a kid jumping on a trampoline. Behave!

04.Say The Word
Written on acoustics. let my fingers touch some patterns on piano et voila! Latin groove with a melodic popsong above it. To describe the shape I was in. Say it!

05.Treason
Zappa again? I had fun! Ha, a "Trump" song I hear you say. Triumph! Well, that's too obvious, but that's goovy man. Traitors are everywhere, look in trhe mirror. This took a long time to squeeze out (a lot of tiny little details you don't want to know about), I almost forgot about it.

06.The Vanished Vaudeville
Instrumental shuffle. Just a little dittie I played on my acoustic. Melody on a theramin-like synth. It all went like a flying circus! I had this laying on a shelve for a while, it just happened to fit in now.

07.Kick Together
Kick it! Funky groove. Just dance, freak out!Then a little variation in 10cc (circa 1974) mode in the middle of the song.

08.Not Today
Sort of a ballad with a lyric to express "I'm only human". Still R&B soulgroovy, but basically in a singer-songwriter vain.

09.The Gloves Are Off
Funk with the gloves off. I can get pissed off with moneymakers yes. Not only bankers. The way the worlds rears its ugly head, when it's all show, no tell. All done in the name of funk with a P.

10.Do Your Job
Another one for the hardworking little guys and girls out there. Face the jerk! Laidback, latinesque motives always seem to creep up in my songs.

11.U Know That Now
Slow funky and melodic stuff. Lyrics are about the feasibility of a bucket list.

12.The Fly Off The Wall Routine
Instrumental based on several ideas. "Fly Talk" is the vocal version, the instrumental parts are leftovers put together. They fit! The slow second part I added later. Liked the "concept" method there!

Review from Belgium!

Hey folks! Going well?

Feedback, I dig it all! To be or not to be...I'll behave...
Thank you Marino Serdons!
Bron: Keys And Chords review

In dutch:
"Al 40 jaren schudt Joost van Dinther alias The vanished Dutchman liedjes uit zijn non-stop brein. Vorig jaar nog schreef de pers het album "Just Say Know" naar de hemelse sterren. Ook "The Fly On The Wall Routine" bulkt van snelle en funky songs waarbij meerdere muzikale lagen een mooi complex geheel maken. Soms valt wel eens de vergelijking met Frank Zappa, in zijn tijd een meester in complexe en dikwijls oeverloze songs. Joost bespeelt het iets praktischer en vooral meer gebundeld. Zelden overstijgt een nummer 3 minuten en toch heb je het gevoel (al swingend) om tientallen instrumenten te hebben ontdekt. Niet alleen intelligent en boeiend, ook enigszins riskant om in alle overmoed er teveel laagjes in the duwen ("Behave")... Gelukkig weet Joost nog nipt de juiste dosering aan boord te leggen zodat het organische niet verloren gaat. Grappig is het speelse "Treason". Een perfecte musicalsong. Niet toevallig gevolgd door een luchtig instrumentaal "The Vanished Vaudeville". In het theatrale maakt Joost het verschil met mainstream funkbands. Naast enkele folietjes herbergt "The Fly On The Wall Routine" een aantal knappe funk geinspireerde songs met ieder hun eigen excentrieke benadering. Een aanrader!" (door Marino Serdons)

In english:
'For 40 years Joost van Dinther aka The vanished Dutchman has been shaking songs from his non-stop brain. Last year the press wrote the album' Just Say Know 'to the heavenly stars.' The Fly On The Wall Routine 'is also brimming with fast and funky songs in which multiple musical layers make a nice complex whole, and sometimes the comparison with Frank Zappa, a master of complex and often endless songs in his time, Joost plays it a little more practically and above all more bundled. minutes and yet you have the feeling (while swinging) that you have discovered dozens of instruments, not only intelligent and fascinating, but also somewhat risky to push too many layers into it ('Behave') ... Luckily Joost still knows to put the correct dosage on board so that the organic is not lost.Funny is the playful 'treason', a perfect musicalsong, and not coincidentally followed by a light instrumental 'The Vanished Vaudeville'. eatrale makes Joost the difference with mainstream funk bands. In addition to some films, 'The Fly On The Wall Routine' houses a number of handsome funk-inspired songs, each with its own eccentric approach. A must! '(By Marino Serdons)

Again a great album from The Vanished Dutchman, JoosTVD. Beside his "classic" funky beats, you will find a few crazy cabaret tunes. How nice music can be!

Reviews? Keep them coming!

This is the first one from the netherlands, very well-written by the authors of Timpaan muziek

In dutch:

"Joost The Vanished Dutchman (JoosTVD) is een multiinstrumentalist en heeft een nieuw album uit, The fly on the wall routine. Funky jazzachtige muziek met een onverwacht lage stem, virtuoze loopjes en ingenieuze tegenmelodieën vullen elkaar continue aan. Met een duur van 36 minuten duren de twaalf tracks van het album niet heel erg lang.
Is een nieuw album routine voor JoosTVD? Zo klinkt het in ieder geval niet. Het eerste nummer Fly talk straalt urgentie uit, wordt voortgestuwd op syncopes in de bas en swingt. Daarmee een uitstekende opener van dit album. in de tekst komt de albumtitel al gelijk naar voren. Opener Fly talk vormt met afsluiter The fly off the wall de omlijsting van het album. Stuck gaat in dezelfde stijl verder. De stem van JoosTVD klinkt in vergelijking met zijn vorige album meer op de voorgrond en dat komt de balans ten goede.
Met Treason is het onmogelijk een lach te onderdrukken. De olijke melodie alleen al en het he-he-he, ho-ho-ho en they will never let me go-go-go vullen elkaar grandioos aan. Het nummer stuitert hoekig door de riffjes heen. The vanished Vaudeville is een miniatuurtje. De variété is niet verdwenen in de muziek van JoosTVD. Kick together en The gloves are off klinken weer  serieus. I don’t need your stinking money, even if you’re think I’m funny, zingt JoosTVD. The fly off the wall routine (nee, geen typefout het is off en niet on in de songtitel) sluit het album met een instrumentale track af.
JoosTVD levert opnieuw een technisch hoogstandje af. Hij bespeelt wederom alle instrumenten zelf en zet de ingewikkelde muzikale melodieën overtuigend neer."
Eindoordeel: 8,5

Happy dutchman

In english: 

'Joost The Vanished Dutchman (JoosTVD) is a multi-instrumentalist and has released a new album, The fly on the wall routine. Funky jazz-like music with an unexpected low voice, virtuoso loops and ingenious counter melodies complement each other continuously. With a duration of 36 minutes the twelve tracks of the album do not last very long.

Is a new album routine for JoosTVD? That is not how it sounds. The first song Fly talk radiates urgency, is pushed on syncopes in the bass and swings. This makes an excellent opener of this album. the album title already comes to the fore in the text. Opener Fly talk forms the frame of the album with the closing act The fly off the wall. Stuck continues in the same style. The voice of JoosTVD sounds more in the foreground compared to his previous album and that benefits the balance.

With Treason it is impossible to suppress a smile. The merry melody alone and the he-he-he, ho-ho-ho and they will never let me go go-go complement each other beautifully. The number bounces angularly through the reefs. The vanished Vaudeville is a miniature. The variety has not disappeared in the music of JoosTVD. Kick together and The gloves are off sound serious again. I don't need your stinking money, if you think I'm funny, JoosTVD sings. The fly off the wall routine (no, no typo it's off and not on in the song title) closes the album with an instrumental track.

JoosTVD again delivers a technical tour de force. He once again plays all the instruments himself and convincingly puts down the complex musical melodies. '

Final assessment: 8.5 

 

TVD's Recording History

Ok, a little (recording) history then
Let me see....I started writing little ditties in 1979 and have been recording since then. First on analog tape of course. I was hooked, played (drums, bass, guitars, sometimes synths, vocals) on primitive, cheap instruments most of the time  and recorded my ass off! Here are a few machines I've hassled with (note: I am a musician , no technical chef):

I recorded mostly improvised stories, sometimes filled in the silences with jokes and dirty sounds

Remember the SOS function? Well, overdubbing with hiss was a non plus.

More tracks, more overdubbing, less hiss, still hiss on the tape

A 4-track Tascam did the trick for 43(!) tapes till 1998, followed by the digital/ virtual recording with a firewire and a cd burner. Since 1998 I've recorded 22 albums and 15 of them you can stream on www.

Digital, pre-amps, firewire, no hiss!

My present setup?
I have used the digidesign 003 since 2011 with Pro Tools and now as I've bought the Thunderbolt Apollo Twin Quad and a very heavy game laptop, so I'm in the middle of switching stuff. It gets smaller by the day!

Digidesign 003, possibilities....

Apollo Twin Quad, small stuff!

getting mobile game laptop