#acda

[laureli-amadeus-music]

I Am The World, also known as the commission of 1,000 drafts ✨

I had nervous breakdowns over this piece, but dare I say they paid off.

Thanks to @jenlucycook and @michaelleemusic for being amazing mentors, and to @acdawestern and @csufmusic for premiering my tear-soaked and sweat-stained monster child.

If you’re interested in my concert music please email laureliamadeusinquiries@gmail.com as I fight for my life trying to get my website up and running 🫠 TILL THEN… y’all rock.

[epic-song-lyrics-showdown]

Epic Song Lyrics Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 10

“Op een terras ergens in Frankrijk in de zon / Zit een man die het tot gisteren nooit won / Maar zijn auto vloog hier vlakbij uit de bocht / Zonder hem, zonder Herman / Want die had hem net verkocht

Translation:

“On a terrace somewhere in France in the sun / Sits a man who never won anything until yesterday / But his car veered off the road just around here / Without him, without Herman / ‘cause he had just sold it”

-Het regent zonnestralen, Acda & De Munnik

“Let the wind carry us / To the clouds, hurry up, alright / We can travel so far / As our eyes can see / We go where no one goes / We slow for no one / Get out of our way”

-Where No One Goes, Jónsi

Het regent zonnestralen-Acda & De Munnik

Time Stamp: 0:20-0:43

Propaganda:

The whole exceeding expectations/narrative structure. Like we start of with setting the scene like yeah there’s a guy somewhere in France. He’s probably just on holiday right? Oh his life kinda sucked, but he’s now on holiday so that’s probably why it’s- WAIT WHAT! If his car crashed how is he supposed to be happy now???? Oh he wasn’t in it, wait who drove it then? The guy who bought it, damn that must suck for him- oh we don’t care about him. This is about Herman. (Picking the name Herman is also so iconic ngl)

Submitted by @zoueriemandzijnopmars

Where No One Goes-Jónsi

Time Stamp: 0:02-0:55

Propaganda:

The backing music is great and it’s just a bop in general. Also ngl I misheard it for literal years because the closed captions for it for the How to Train Your Dragon 2 dvd weren’t great there.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

[vogelmeister]

im so happy i Shazamed the song that was playing in the taxi when i arrived in the netherlands bc it was such an important moment for me and im glad i have that song to remind me now

[dustedmagazine]

Ian Mathers’ 2022: Are you with me even now?

For the third year in a row, Low are part of my reflection on the year that just happened. But this time I don’t want them to be. They didn’t put out a record, I didn’t see them play live (virtually or not) even once. I don’t really want to spend a ton of time going over Mimi Parker’s death and the reactions to it (including my own); I can say this is the one time ever in my life that mourning an artist whose work I love felt anything at all like mourning someone I actually knew. For at least a month I thought about it all the time, read about it constantly, watched and listened to everything I could get my hands on, talked about it often. It felt ridiculous and necessary. I don’t know what happens with my favorite band now; I mainly just hope her family and other loved ones are doing as ok as possible. One wonderful and horrible thing about the reactions is that they were both more numerous and more heartfelt than I would have guessed; up until a few years ago running into other fans of their work felt a lot more rare. 30 years into what I personally think stacks up as one of the greatest creative runs in all of popular music (I’ve been ringing the bell about Low doing better, more vital and interesting work than other bands [x] years into their career since… 2007’s The Great Destroyer at least), I’m glad that people were noticing what they did. The bittersweetness of that, that at least by the end Low were a lot more widely and deeply loved than I would have guessed... I hope she knew that too. How many artists have passed before they made their Double Negative and HEY WHAT? We can never really know the extent of what the world misses out on when someone dies.

Other than that horrible pall weighing down the end of the year, though, at least on the small scale 2022 was pretty good to me. The world in general continues to feel more and more fraught (here in Canada too!) and we’re still not properly dealing with a pandemic. With us being an immunocompromised household… when you see people talking about leaving behind the chronically ill, it absolutely includes those of us who, pre-COVID, nobody could tell weren’t “normal” or “healthy.” I did get to a very few shows this year, masked. But mostly this was a third year in a row of just… never going out or doing most of the things we used to do. Both my wife and I switched jobs to positions that are both much more satisfying and important to us and, not incidentally, quite a bit better paying. By the end of 2022 we’ve hit the first time in our adult lives where (despite how little it would take to knock us back down) we’re not experiencing constant financial stress.

I could have guessed this would change my relationship with music, but honestly, would have underestimated the degree to which that would be true. I’m happier with my writing this year, both frequency and end result, although there’s always more work to do on those fronts. And without feeling like I was trying very hard to do so, I somehow listened to 170 new LPs and EPs over the course of the year. And I found a lot to like, too: my 2022 playlist in Swinsian (which I tried out and then switched to when the Apple Music program started having weird glitches and hours of tech support couldn’t help at all) currently has a little over 1000 tracks in it, equaling over 3 days of music. There’s still a near-infinite amount of stuff out there I’ve never touched or even heard of. But more than ever, it feels like I covered my particularly bailiwick(s) as thoroughly as could be expected of someone who still has a day job and relatively normal life.

This increased volume of input doesn’t necessarily make me think 2022 was a better (or worse!) year for music than any other, but it does lead to a list of records that I feel more strongly about. There are plenty of good records I am keeping in full that just didn’t make it onto my list(s), especially since I’m sticking with a top 40 like I did in 2021. In years where I’ve ‘only’ managed to check out 80-90 records, even a top 20 often covers just about everything I’ve solidly enjoyed from the year. In 2022, 40 records isn’t even half of that group. It has made me reflect a bit on just how sustainable this all is — do I just keep accumulating dozens of records I love every year I’m here? How often am I going to go back to any of them? And sure enough, one thing all this new listening has done has drastically slowed progress on my now years-long effort to corral and organize my existing collection. But I do feel strongly enough about what I loved this year, both from existing favorites and acts totally new to me, that I’m probably just going to kick those cans a little further down the road. I’m also mulling over how, if at all, I want to change my listening in the new year, not least because one of the major ways I discover new things ended in 2022 (RIP, The Singles Jukebox).

As I’ve mentioned before in these roundups, I don’t necessarily feel like every year these days I have an “album of the year” (and am generally loathe to try and rank things). This year I can’t decide if I have one or two; Cloakroom’s Dissolution Wave was one of my most anticipated and ever since I first got the promo back in January, I’ve been listening to it very regularly. One of the things I like about music writing (at least the way I do it) is that it forces me to listen to records a lot more than I would even if I otherwise adore them, and at this point I have an almost Pavlovian joy reaction to the beginning of “Lost Meaning.” For a long time, it seemed like it stood alone for me, and I think it still does, but I need to give at least an honorable mention to Let’s Eat Grandma’s Two Ribbons. It didn’t have the immediate impact on me the Cloakroom did, even though that first half, especially, is immediately ingratiating. But over months I found myself going back to it more and more and in another year, I could easily see it having the unquestioned top spot. I’ve seen neither in most year-end stuff, which makes me a bit sad.

So here are the lists; my 40 favorite LPs, followed by 5 EPs, 5 reissues and/or compilations, 5 releases from Aidan Baker (which makes up not even half of the releases from his various projects!), and 20 ‘loose’ songs either from records I liked but who don’t make it into the main list, or where this song was really the only one I liked, or just ones that came out on their own. If all the little extra lists seem like cheating, well, they kind of are. But this was as narrowed down as I could get it. All of the lists are in alphabetical order, and for all but the songs list any links are to where I’ve written about them here at Dusted. For the songs, partly because so many of them do have music videos (and I love music videos), I’ve actually just provided a link to the song on YouTube should you be so moved. Last year I ended by saying I hoped we’d all continue to get better at taking care of ourselves and each other in 2022. On a micro level, I can say that did happen for us, and many of our loved ones. I hope as much as possible it did for you too, and we can all find the strength to keep at it in 2023.

40 LPs

Aarktica — We Will Find the Light

Alvvays — Blue Rev

Aoife O'Donovan — Age of Apathy

Beyoncé — RENAISSANCE

Billow Observatory — Stareside

Black Ox Orkestar — Everything Returns

The Body & OAA — Enemy of Love

Bruno Bavota & Chantal Acda — A Closer Distance

Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time

Charli XCX — Crash

Chelsea Jade — Soft Spot

Cloakroom — Dissolution Wave

Earthless — Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

Eric Cheneaux — Say Laura

Esmerine — Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More

Ethel Cain — Preacher’s Daughter

Fujiya & Miyagi — Slight Variations

Hagop Tchaparian — Bolts

Hatchie — Giving the World Away

High Vis — Blending

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance

Hot Chip — Freakout/Release

Jessica Moss — Galaxy Heart

Kali Malone — Living Torch

Let’s Eat Grandma — Two Ribbons

Locrian — New Catastrophism

Loop — Sonancy

loscil — The Sails p.1/p.2

Michael Beharie — Promise

Oneida — Success

Party Dozen — The Real Work

SASAMI — Squeeze

Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful

Szun Waves — Earth Patterns

Use Knife — The Shedding of Skin

Vince Staples — RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART

Water Damage — Repeater

Wet Leg — Wet Leg

Winged Wheel — No Island

Winter — What Kind of Blue Are You?

5 EPs

Gillian Stone — Spirit Photographs

Greet Death — New Low

Picastro — I’ve Never Met a Stranger

Sun’s Signature — Sun’s Signature

Trauma Ray — Transmissions

5 Reissues/Compilations

Broadcast — Maida Vale Sessions

Laddio Bolocko — '97​-​'99

Les Rallizes Dénudés —’77 LIVE

Prolapse — John Peel session 20.08.94/John Peel session 08.04.97

Wire — Not About to Die

5 Releases From Aidan Baker

Aidan Baker — The Evelyn Tables

Aidan Baker — Tenebrist

Baker Ja Lehtisalo — Crocodile Tears

Nadja — Labyrinthine

Nadja — Nalepa

20 More Songs

Animal Collective — “Prester John”

Boy Harsher ft Lucy - Cooper B. Handy — “Autonomy”

Caroline Polachek — “Billions”

Chappell Roan — “Casual”

Death Cab for Cutie — “I Won’t Give Up on You”

Diatom Deli — “False Alarm”

Duke Deuce ft GloRilla — “Just Say That”

Flume ft Caroline Polachek — “Sirens”

HAAi ft. Jon Hopkins — “Baby, We’re Ascending”

Ibibio Sound Machine — “Protection From Evil”

Miči & Sun-EL Musician — “Respond”

MUNA — “Anything But Me”

Porridge Radio — “Back to the Radio”

Spoon — “Wild”

Steve Lacy — “Bad Habit”

Storefront Church ft Phoebe Bridgers — “Words”

Stromae — “L’enfer”

Sudan Archives — “Selfish Soul”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs ft Perfume Genius — “Spitting Off the Edge of the World”

yeule — “Bites on My Neck”

Ian Mathers

[donospl]

Europe Jazz Media Chart - Październik 2024

Wybór nowości muzycznych, dokonany przez grupę czołowych europejskich magazynów i witryn jazzowych. A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent by the top European jazz magazines and websites. Kurt Elling Wildflowers, vol.1 (Edition Records) Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny, Polska Vivian Buczek Le Grand Michel (Naxos Prophone Records) Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum,…

[zombiechoir]

Favorite lyrics: "Acda en De Munnik - Het Regent Zonnestralen"

[gerbie7]

Slaap zacht Elisabeth

Muziek kan veel doen met je emoties. Mama had dat de laatste jaren erg sterk, zeker sinds het overlijden van papa. De keuze voor tijdens haar afscheid was dan ook belangrijk. Niet erg moeilijk overigens. We begonnen met een van haar favorieten. Dat Elisabeth ook nog eens haar derde naam was, kwam toevallig zo uit. Weet niet eens of ze dit nummer kende. Maar dat Thomas Acda er bij hoorde, geen…

[tobylitt]

On a Benediction

Sharing a small benediction upon writers - in video form, with song.

This is something I’ve been yearning to share for over two years. I hope those of you who’ve been following the Writer’s Diary will understand.It’s something I’m proud of and which still moves me.Whilst I was writing the first draft of A Writer’s Diary, partly during the early lockdowns, one entry in particular came straight out as a little piece that I felt would have a wider life. I had a…

[vriendenboekjes]

hier uit prachtig maaiveld groeten uit prachtig maaiveld waar men je welkomstkaart bestelt als je pas net bent weggegaan....

[practicecourts]

sorry. this is absolute madness, just to celebrate me finding the poll button. scroll on or pick whatever feels most accurate, go with the vibes

[laureli-amadeus-music]

My ACDA choir commission is now on streaming platforms. :)

[imathers]

Top 40: Bruno Bavota & Chantal Acda — A Closer Distance

With Bruno Bavota & Chantal Acda’s A Closer Distance, this alphabetically sorted “top 40″ hits its first entrant that I reviewed at Dusted. I won’t repeat what’s there too much here, but want to mention two things I would never include in that kind review.

The first is just a small bit of ego; I was overall happier with my writing this year (it’s weird that having more money and less stress in my life helped with my creative outlet, huh?), and the last sentence in the first paragraph of this review is maybe the best I’ve done (that I can recall) at summing up how an album feels to me in such a short space.

The second is that, by pure coincidence, I first listened to my promo copy of A Closer Distance the evening that I got some very upsetting medical news about a relative. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned bits around that on here before, and it’s not about me so I’m not going to go into too much detail, but the blunt truth of it is: it felt like I’d just been told someone I love very much was about to die. The situation has improved somewhat since then (long term prognosis is... not amazing, but short term we’re doing ok), but that evening in particular I was basically in a fugue state, pretty much shellshocked. I would have loved this record no matter when or how I heard it (if you get me to compare your record favourably to Paul Buchanan’s Mid Air, I am not fucking around), but listening to it that evening felt like someone sitting down next to me and taking my hand. There are not many records from the past few years where I feel the sense of gratitude for how it came into my life that I do here.

[danjaley]

Posepack: 18th Century Portrait

Family portrait poses; some may even be useful for everyday situations. I numbered them by source-painting, but there are actually a lot of possibilities to combine and arrange them.

The armchair is the one I happen to have in Blender. In some cases (like pose 2) a slimmer model may work even better.

The child in pose 3 is holding a twig or riding crop originally. I left this open to photoshop or use with buymode-objects.

The standing poses 4a and 4b come with lots of variations. The pair can either be toddler-child or child-teen/adult, or even all three in a row. There are also alternative arm-poses for the girl standing in the back. I made the clutching at dress pose for the child with this dress. The Princess-dress from Generations or Windermeresimblr's edit have the same frills.

In pose 5 the child is slightly stretched.

Download: SimFileshare | Dropbox

Portrait1 Francis Hayman: Jonathan Tyers and his family. 1740 National Portrait Gallery UK

Portrait 2 [only found this as part of an essay with restricted access...] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/0ce22c45-eae8-4bb2-acda-fc7429ba4cb2/ahis12247-fig-0015-m.jpg

Portrait 3 William Hoare R.A.:The Pitt Family. exhibited in 1761. At artfund-org.

Portrait 4 Thomas Gainsborough: The Baillie Family. c. 1784. The Tate.

Portrait5 Charles Willson Peale: Robert Goldsborough & Family 1789. Image here.

[vogelmeister]

I believe strongly my brother just saw me bobbing along to Acda en de Munnik in my room

[louisupdates]

pinkpopfest De eerste 27 namen voor Pinkpop 2024 op je beeldscherm! We mogen headliners Måneskin (vr), Calvin Harris (za) en Ed Sheeran (zo) verwelkomen. Daarnaast schitteren o.a. Avril Lavigne, Royal Blood, Acda en De Munnik, Nothing But Thieves, Sam Smith en Hozier komende zomer op het podium in Landgraaf. De 53e editie van Pinkpop vindt plaats op vrijdag 21, zaterdag 22 en zondag 23 juni 2024.

Tickets zijn vanaf zaterdag 9 december a.s. om 10:00 uur te koop via Ticketmaster. Wil jij als eerste tickets bemachtigen voor Pinkpop 2024? Schrijf je dan in voor onze pre-sale! (via onze link in bio). Zo maak jij als een van de eerste kans op tickets en kun je vóór de reguliere start van de ticketverkoop jouw ticket(s) voor 21, 22 en 23 juni bemachtigen.

Deze week lichten we alle ticketinfo (waaronder het gloednieuwe Vaste Gast-Ticket, de groepsplekken én het Tuinterras-ticket) voor jullie uit. Mocht je niet kunnen wachten, hebben we het belangrijkste nieuws alvast voor je opgesomd op www.pinkpop.nl

Programma tot nu toe:

MÅNESKIN - CALVIN HARRIS - ED SHEERAN - NOTHING BUT THIEVES – SAM SMITH - AVRIL LAVIGNE – HOZIER LIMP BIZKIT - GRETA VAN FLEET – LOUIS TOMLINSON – ROYAL BLOOD – PENDULUM (LIVE)– ACDA EN DE MUNNIK – AGAINST THE CURRENT – CALUM SCOTT – CIAN DUCROT - DAVINA MICHELLE – FROUKJE – JAMES ARTHUR - JANE’S ADDICTION – LAUREN SPENCER SMITH - LOREEN – NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS - POLYPHIA – TINLICKER – GIDEON LUCIANA - JIRI1

#PP24 #Pinkpop

[pinkpopfest The first 27 names for Pinkpop 2024 on your screen! We welcome headliners Måneskin (Fri), Calvin Harris (Sat) and Ed Sheeran (Sun). In addition, Avril Lavigne, Royal Blood, Acda and De Munnik, Nothing But Thieves, Sam Smith and Hozier will shine on stage in Landgraaf next summer. The 53rd edition of Pinkpop will take place on Friday 21, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June 2024.

Tickets can be purchased from Saturday, December 9 at 10:00 AM via Ticketmaster. Do you want to be the first to get tickets for Pinkpop 2024? Then sign up for our pre-sale! (via our link in bio). This way you will be one of the first to win tickets and you can get your ticket(s) for June 21, 22 and 23 before the regular start of ticket sales.

Program so far:

MÅNESKIN - CALVIN HARRIS - ED SHEERAN - NOTHING BUT THIEVES – SAM SMITH - AVRIL LAVIGNE – HOZIER LIMP BIZKIT - GRETA VAN FLEET – LOUIS TOMLINSON – ROYAL BLOOD – PENDULUM (LIVE)– ACDA EN DE MUNNIK – AGAINST THE CURRENT – CALUM SCOTT – CIAN DUCROT - DAVINA MICHELLE – FROUKJE – JAMES ARTHUR - JANE’S ADDICTION – LAUREN SPENCER SMITH - LOREEN – NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS - POLYPHIA – TINLICKER – GIDEON LUCIANA - JIRI1]

Posted on Instagram, 4.12.2023. TICKETS.

[jez-bez]

✨ Tag Game ✨

people i'd like to know tag game, tagged by the partner in crime @chaeul ♥

last song: 'Het Regent Zonnestralen' by Acda en de Munnik truly showing my nationality here haha. Sas if you see this, you'll know

favorite color: Sky blue and sunset orange 🌅

last book: The Boy Next World! What a rollercoaster that was. I haven't reacted quite as severely to something in a while as I have to that book! Whoever said Mame can't write is a Liar (it's personal preference ofc, but I loved it)

last movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 because it was on TV two days ago

last tv show: That I finished: Squid Game with the partner in crime! I gushed about season 2 coming in December and she hadn't seen season 1 yet so we watched it together! That I'm watching rn: The Heart Killers also with the partner in crime!

sweet/spicy/savory: Sweet and Spicy! It really depends on the mood

relationship status: *sniff* single, playing around with a friend tho hehe it's fun to tease and drive him insane 🤭

last thing i googled: 'Maternity leave in Thailand' I- well- it's fic related

current obsessions: BossNoeul. They've been my obsession for the past two years 🥹💜 Their love, whether platonic or something more, is beautiful and it's given me so much since I found LiTA, I'm so very grateful to them 💜 But also! The Viper's Raven, a webmanga. Biking! I've been biking everywhere recently. Goodbye public transport, hello biking!

looking forward to: Getting my own place again 💜 It's been a rough year in which I was granted safety and place to stay by someone who absolutely did not have to do that for me, but time is running out and the housing market sucks. At this point I'll take anything that isn't too far away from my social life.

Tagging: @copperstown @awiderangeofgreen @fairlylokai @heerotheshiro no pressure <3 just for funsies