The Way Things Are

No, this not the new album cover! Just a quote I use very much these days... (update : almost finished with mixing, I really can't wait to let you in on a listening sesion, but I have to, over my dead like, ha ha!

Me Against....

2020

Selfreflected Dutchman

Hai Folks, have yourself a happy 2020! Time surely flies.
A little update about the music, I've got:
12 songs, one song needs some lyrics and then I'll mix them until I'm satisfied. I'm really surprised by the quality of the songs and arrangements, can't wait to let you inside my.....!
At the same time I've been busy choosing the right pictures for the covers. All designed and ready! I guess I couldn't help myself, but there are 3 videos in the can. All lyric based videos with a lot of colourful effects to stir the juices.
So, hum, I'm excited.

Mirror, mirror

2019 Selfie Flashback

Bye Bye 2019!
 

Hey, how are you brother (echo: brother, rother, other, ther, er)?

Screw 2020

Man, I'm getting older, but I feel younger, more greyer, but better (between the ears and behind the eyes) than ever. Living the life.

What's up next? I guess....

Musically? 12 motherf...ing (GREAT!?) new songs to unscrew yourself in every way. Almost in the final stages, I'm still mixing, finishing lyrics/ vocals. I guess a fresh 2020 spring release will be on the menu. Excited!?

What did you do in 2019?

Breathe in and out....once in a while I hit a passing cowbell in a dissonant way. Aw sucks!
Musically, I did it again. Self-Kicker!
                                               
                                                          1.Another instrumental album, (only on Jamendo, especially for video makers/ promo video):

                                                                         For Your Pleasure Vol.6 [2019]

                                                           2.And my fifteenth digital album, released may 2019:


                                                                           The Fly On The Wall Routine [2019]

                                                                  Thanks for the reviews, listening and support!

          Reviews: Bluesmagazine    Keys And Chords   Timpaan Muziek   Heaven Popmagazine


              My Favourite albums of 2019 (a curious year, full of sweet surprises, both young and old):

                                                                               Supersister - Retsis Repus

Dutch multi talent RJStips pays moving tribute to his unique band

                                                                      Philip Bailey - Love Will Find A Way

Wowwww, soul with a capital S.

                                                                                              Joe Jackson - Fool

Biting and in in your face Joe

                                                                                 Norah Jones - Begin Again

Subtle and lovely

                                                                              Bruce Hornsby - Absolute Zero

Urging arrangements, restless grooves

                                                                                  Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 2

Unbelievable acrobat vocally stretches out in folklore eclectic

                                                               

                                                                               Robbie Robertson - Sinematic

Cinematic, mysterious darkness

                                  
                                      David Byrne - American Utopia On Broadway (Original Cast Recording)

Innovative on stage as always, Byrne looks ahead and back

 

                                                                                       

                           The books (mostly autobio/ bio) I've read:

Burt Bacharach - Anyone Who Had a Heart My Life and Music
David Roberts - Stephen Stills Change Partners
Steve Lukather Paul Rees - The Gospel According To Luke
Simon Callow - [Orson Welles 03] - Orson Welles- One-Man Band
Peter Biskind - How Warren Beatty Seduced America
Michael Feeney Callan - Robert Redford The Biography
Marc Eliot - Jack Nicholson
Emily Herbert - Robin Williams When The Laughter Stops
Trevor Dann - Darker Than The Deepest Dea Nick Drake
Dave Thompson - 10cc The Cost Of Living In Dreams

                           My eyes have been touched by

Film:
Us
Parasite

TV series: 
Castle Rock
Goliath
La Casa De Papel
The Affair
The Haunting Of The Hill House
The Terror
 

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!