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ebiemidnightlibrarian · 2 years ago

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Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to get to know better.

Tagged By: @chronic-ghost my beloved, you are AMAZING!

Name: Eloah :3

Star Sign: Aries (no, I'm not the rl incarnation of 'anger' from Inside Out lol)

Height: last time I checked I was 5'6", so yeah, Father Paul would easily pin me to a wall.

Time: 22:01 pm

Birthday: March 24th

Favorite Bands/Favorite Solo Artists: Humm what a hard task, it changes sometimes, but I'll keep my all-time favourites; David Bowie, Bauhaus, The Smiths, Joy Divison, She Wants Revenge, Queen, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Edith Piáf, Al Bowly, Vera Lynn, Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Cauby Peixoto, IAMX, Florence + The Machine, Aurora, Queens of the Stone Age, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Weekend, The Lumineers, Cage The Elephant and Coldplay. (yeah, my music taste it's quite unusual, but like the olds would say; Call wine, wine.)

Last Movie: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Sam Raimi gave me a full meal of fun, horror, drama and dark humour.

Last Show: AHS: Hotel — revisiting one of my favourites gothic atmosphere and Lady Gaga was *chef's kiss* as the Countess. The soundtrack for that season is also fucking incredible.

When did I create this blog: Ahn, I'm sure of the year, but not of the exact date. It was around January 2017.

What I post: Mostly, moodboards and aesthetics, dark academia and gothic academia; LOTS of fandom stuff and since May of the last year I'm posting fanfiction for a couple of people. Writing keep me sane… well, mostly sane, lol.

Last thing I googled: the word "hermenêutica".

It's a feminine noun (in portuguese we have genre to words). It means science, technique whose object is the interpretation of religious or philosophical texts, especially the Holy Scriptures.

Lmao, this was a bit didactic, sorry.

Other Blogs: None, just this lil one =D

Do I Get Asks?: I DO!! Please, I get so excited when I receive one, it's like Christmas morning!

Why I chose my url: it used to be a quote from the 1976 film 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' — everything begins in eternity —, one of my favourites for a very long time. But I started to think the url was too long, so I decided to change to 'ebiemidnightlibrarian' — ebie because it's the first letter of each word from the quotation above;(and also my nickname here bc my real name sounds odd in english, lol); midnight bc Midnight Mass fucking changed my life as a huge cathartic experience, and librarian bc it's my profession lmao.

Following: 459

Followers: 220

Average hours of sleep: 3-7 hours, usually, but on my day off maybe 12 straight hours. None of them are healthy, but I'm working to fix this.

Instruments: Ohh, if I had the money to pay for the classes, I would TOTALLY play the piano. (However, I love cello too.)

What am I wearing: a terribly old nightdress that used to be pink, sandals, my granny's old jumper and a pair of workout pants from high school, it's really cosy.

Dream job(s): own a small bookshop with a small café and whole lots of first editions, where my manager it's a cute English grandpa (very specific, but I always wondered how it would be to live in England); a research colleague of a really hot literature professor (stealing this one from taylor, bc with some luck this one will become true within the next five years, lol); a guide from an old history museum.

Favourite Food: TEA, LOTS AND LOTS OF TEA! If I can make tea of it, it's great to me. Summer rolls humm I LOOOVE summer rolls; lasagna from almost any type, and specifically my grandmother's wedding cake (she was a full hand baker, once you ate her cakes every other becomes instantly shit.)

Nationality: Brazilian (things are pretty shitty around here, but, hey, it's election year, there's still hope!)

Favorite Song(s): Holy moly, okay, these are all-time favourites from whom I never get sick of:

slow burn — david bowie

tempo perdido — legião urbana (en.: lost time - urban legion, i highly recommend)

blueberry hill — louis armstrong

marian — sisters of mercy

cool cat — queen

stardust — iamx

villains of the circumstance — queens of the stone age

Currently playing on repeat:

janitor of lunacy (demo) — nico

mary on a cross — ghost

heaven is here — florence + the machine

blood in the wine — aurora

young american — the vaccines

animal impulses — iamx

big bad wolf — in this moment

Last book I read: I have just finished reading A Roda de Deus (The Wheel of God) and O Criador da Morte (The Creator of Death). They're the two parts of O Evangelho do Exorcista (The Gospel of the Exorcist), both written by Leonel Caldela.

Those books are an expansion of a Call of Cthulhu RPG tabletop, inspired by various historical events that took place in Europe over the millennials. The first part follows a novice and a priest in 1989 divided Germany who are hunting the minions of the Messenger God of Cthulhu, Nyerlathotep. The second part follows the only surviving character from the original role-play table, he's living the WWII and ALSO another war, one for our souls! Following him gave me a lot of nostalgia, and have great easter eggs for anyone who followed the main campaign. The two parts range from Charlemagne's empire to a dystopian future full of horrors. A terrifying adventure filled with mysteries, exorcisms and extremely immersive historical fiction. (I better stop now or this is going to get GIANT.)

Top 3 fictional universes I'd like to live in: Uhh, I never really thought about that. I would probably try my luck into the Lord of the Rings universe, Crimson Peak's or in Maleficent's, I have a weakness for dark fantasy/gothic worlds lol. Although I ADORE the aesthetic of Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'. Ugh hard choices.

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(definitely not 30 ppl here, but think if you saw this consider yourself tagged :)

(fun fact, I almost accidentally tagged neil gaiman on this, lol)

#tagged #tag game #thanks for the tag #nice people ♥#ebie talks #this was really fun thank you sm for the tag hope you feel you know me better now :D

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midniter · 3 years ago

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hi i’m american but i would love some brazilian music recs if you’re willing

of course!! i’m always here to talk about brazilian music :^)

some great classic albums:

Construção by Chico Buarque (1971)

Acabou Chorare by Novos Baianos (1972)

"Pérola Negra" by Luiz Melodia (1973)

Da Lama Ao Caos by Chico Science, Nação Zumbi (1994)

my playlists:

BRASILEIRO

Mal dos Trópicos (for the gay guys)

Eu sou o Carnaval (Brazilian Carnival songs)

MPB MIX (idk how to explain the MPB genre but its kinda the most ‘classic’ brazilian popular music style)

SAMBA MIX (i love samba so muchhhh its my fav genre)

BR alt/rock etc. (alternative, alternative rock, a bit of psychedelic)

BR Rock/Pop Rock (80/90s rock and pop rock)

Tropicália (a movement from the late 60s that changed brazilian music forever)

Clube da Esquina (not exactly a movement, but a group of friends that made beautiful songs in the 70s)

more recs under the cut:

one of our greatest singers is Elza Soares, who's 90 and still making music! her latest albums, Deus É Mulher (2018) and Planeta Fome (2019) are probably her best and i always recommend them!

another great artist is Milton Nascimento, I recommend my Clube da Esquina playlist, which also features songs by some of his musical partners, but it's mostly his songs.

if you'd rather listen to more current pop stuff, i like Pabllo Vittar's album Batidão Tropical and Luísa Sonza's DOCE 22, both released in 2021. IZA's and Gloria Groove's work are also worth checking out.

If you like rap/hip hop, i highly recommend Emicida's album AmarElo (although it blends various styles and genres) and Criolo's Ainda Há Tempo (2016). Criolo, btw, is one of my favorite artists ever and I love all his albums. He goes from rap to samba very naturally.

If you wanna listen to some samba, I have the already listed samba mix with songs from all its eras and subgenres!

Ever heard of samba rock? Yes, it's a thing. I love Seu Jorge's album América Brasil O Disco (2007). Seu Jorge is a dude that usually pleases everyone -- people who are into samba like him, people who are into rock like him, people who are into pop like him, and so on.

if you're into alternative rock, my favorite band is Maglore, and I recommend their album Todas as Bandeiras (2017). also i really like Rodrigo Amarante’s albums Cavalo (2014) and Drama (2021). You might already know this guy from the Narcos theme song!

a contemporary artist i really like is Silva, my favorite album of his is Brasileiro (2018) but all of his discography is pretty good.

this is a very messy but also short list, please let me know if you want anything specific!! <3 i might do something more complete if anyone’s interested!

#if you ever listen to one of my playlists ill love you forever #davi replies #music #brazilian music #music recs #anonymous

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shelovessunflowers · 3 years ago

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Tag 9 people to learn more about their interests!

Thank you @ozziiee for tagging me ♡

MUSIC

Fav genre? blues rock, glam rock, alternative rock, indie rock, britpop

Fav artist? Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Yungblud and Airbag

Fav song? I don’t have a fav song

Most listening song at the moment? R U mine? by Arctic Monkeys

Song currently stuck in your head? One by Three Dog Night

5 fav lyrics:

Pones canciones tristes para sentirte mejor tu esencia es más visible del mismo dolor vendrá un nuevo amanecer/ you put sad songs to feel better your essence is more visible of the same pain a new dawn will come - Adios by Gustavo Cerati

I want to live my life again but you won't I'll never understand the wind but you do I didn't know I was afraid but you do I want to do it again do you want to live forever? I would - SHC by Foster The People

So I made myself sad 'cause I feel comfortable here so I made myself mad because I don't want to steer to be off the rails is to live without fear but when you start feeling nothing, nothing becomes clear so, please speak, please laugh, please dance, please cry feel every fuckin' tear that falls from your eye 'cause to feel is to breathe and to fear is to be free and to be free is what it means to be successful to me - Charity by Yungblud

I hail from the dark side for all my life, I've been besieged you'd be scared living with my despair and if you could feel the things, I am able to feel - The dark side by Muse

Touch me, yeah I want you to touch me there make me feel like I am breathing feel like I am human - A little death by The Neighbourhood

BOOKS

Fav book genre? science fiction, fantasy, detective and mistery

Fav writer? I don’t have one

Fav book? I don’t have one

Fav book series? Shadowhunters

Comfort book? El chico de las estrellas

Perfect book to read on a rainy day? De profundis

Fav characters? characters with a tragic past who use humor as a mechanism of defense to hide their vulnerability

5 quotes from your fav book that you know by heart? I only have this quote that stuck in my head forever:

“Detrás de la alegría y la risa, puede haber una naturaleza vulgar, dura e insensible. Pero detrás del sufrimiento, hay siempre sufrimiento. Al contrario que el placer, el dolor no lleva máscara.” / “Behind the joy and laughter, there may be a vulgar, harsh and insensitive nature. But behind suffering, there is always suffering. Unlike pleasure, pain wears no mask,” De profundis by Oscar Wilde

TV AND MOVIES

Fav tv/movie genre? same as books

Fav movie? Memento

Comfort movie? Freak show or Pride

Movie you watch every year? Home alone

Fav tv show? Skins or Dr. house

Comfort tv show? Will & Grace

Most rewatched tv show? Friends

Ultimate otp? Wilhelm and Simon (same Itzi I love them <3)

5 fav characters? Cassie (Skins), Phoebe (Friends), Mafuyu (Given), Loki (MCU) and Karen (Will & Grace)

I’m tagging @greedy-queen @louismyantidote @oldbay-on-apples @holyshit @chispitalovesruby @lovs-larry @whenyouvequitefinished @habithlarry @goldenmemories

#tag game

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bongaboi · 4 years ago

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2021 Grammy Awards: The List.

New age

Best New Age Album

More Guitar Stories – Jim "Kimo" West

Songs from the Bardo – Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith

Periphery – Priya Darshini

Form//Less – Superposition

Meditations – Cory Wong & Jon Batiste

Jazz

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

"All Blues" – Chick Corea, soloist

"Guinnevere" – Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, soloist

"Pachamama" – Regina Carter, soloist

"Tomorrow is the Question" – Julian Lage, soloist

"Celia" – Gerald Clayton, soloist

"Moe Honk" – Joshua Redman, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Secrets are the Best Stories – Kurt Elling featuring Danilo Pérez

ONA – Thana Alexa

Modern Ancestors – Carmen Lundy

Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper – Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band

What's the Hurry – Kenny Washington

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trilogy 2 – Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade

on the tender spot of every calloused moment – Ambrose Akinmusire

Waiting Game – Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science

Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard – Gerald Clayton

RoundAgain – Redman Mehldau McBride Blade

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Data Lords – Maria Schneider Orchestra

Dialogues on Race – Gregg August

Monk'estra Plays John Beasley – John Beasley

The Intangible Between – Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band

Songs You Like a Lot – John Hollenbeck with Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace and The Frankfurt Radio Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album

Four Questions – Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Tradiciones – Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra

City of Dreams – Chico Pinheiro

Viento y Tiempo - Live at Blue Note Tokyo – Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola

Trane's Delight – Poncho Sanchez

Gospel/contemporary Christian music

Best Gospel Performance/Song

"Movin' On"

Darryl L. Howell, Jonathan Caleb McReynolds, Kortney Jamaal Pollard & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, songwriters (Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music)

"Wonderful is Your Name"

Melvin Crispell III, songwriter (Melvin Crispell III)

"Release (Live)"

David Frazier, songwriter (Ricky Dillard featuring Tiff Joy)

"Come Together"

Lashawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Lecrae Moore & Jazz Nixon, songwriters (Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins Presents: The Good News)

"Won't Let Go"

Travis Greene, songwriter (Travis Greene)

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

"There Was Jesus"

Casey Beathard, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters (Zach Williams & Dolly Parton)

"The Blessing (Live)"

Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe Carnes & Steven Furtick, songwriters (Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship)

"Sunday Morning"

Denisia Andrews, Jones Terrence Antonio, Saint Bodhi, Brittany Coney, Kirk Franklin, Lasanna Harris, Shama Joseph, Stuart Lowery, Lecrae Moore & Nathanael Saint-Fleur, songwriters (Lecrae featuring Kirk Franklin)

"Holy Water"

Andrew Bergthold, Ed Cash, Franni Cash, Martin Cash & Scott Cash, songwriters (We the Kingdom)

"Famous For (I Believe)"

Chuck Butler, Krissy Nordhoff, Jordan Sapp, Alexis Slifer & Tauren Wells, songwriters (Tauren Wells featuring Jenn Johnson)

Best Gospel Album

Gospel According to PJ – PJ Morton

2econd Wind: ReadY – Anthony Brown & group therAPy

My Tribute – Myron Butler

Choirmaster – Ricky Dillard

Kierra – Kierra Sheard

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Jesus Is King – Kanye West

Run to The Father – Cody Carnes

All of My Best Friends – Hillsong Young & Free

Holy Water – We the Kingdom

Citizen of Heaven – Tauren Wells

Best Roots Gospel Album

Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) – Fisk Jubilee Singers

Beautiful Day – Mark Bishop

20/20 – The Crabb Family

What Christmas Really Means – The Erwins

Something Beautiful – Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

Latin

Best Latin Pop Album or Urban Album

YHLQMDLG – Bad Bunny

Por Primera Vez – Camilo

Mesa Para Dos – Kany García

Pausa – Ricky Martin

3:33 – Debi Nova

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

La Conquista del Espacio – Fito Páez

Aura – Bajofondo

MONSTRUO – Cami

Sobrevolando – Cultura Profética

Miss Colombia – Lido Pimienta

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Un Canto por México, Vol. 1 – Natalia Lafourcade

Hecho en México – Alejandro Fernández

La Serenata – Lupita Infante

Bailando Sones y Huampangos con Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez – Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez

Ayayay! – Christian Nodal

Best Tropical Latin Album

40 – Grupo Niche

Mi Tumbao – José Alberto "El Ruiseñor"

Infinito – Edwin Bonilla

Sigo Cantando al Amor (Deluxe) – Jorge Celedon & Sergio Luis

Memorias de Navidad – Víctor Manuelle

American roots

Best American Roots Performance

"I Remember Everything" – John Prine

"Colors" – Black Pumas

"Deep in Love" – Bonny Light Horseman

"Short and Sweet" – Brittany Howard

"I'll Be Gone" – Norah Jones & Mavis Staples

Best American Roots Song

"I Remember Everything"

Pat McLaughlin & John Prine, songwriters (John Prine)

"Cabin"

Laura Rogers & Lydia Rogers, songwriters (The Secret Sisters)

"Ceiling to the Floor"

Sierra Hull & Kai Welch, songwriters (Sierra Hull)

"Hometown"

Sarah Jarosz, songwriter (Sarah Jarosz)

"Man Without a Soul"

Tom Overby & Lucinda Williams, songwriters (Lucinda Williams)

Best Americana Album

World on the Ground – Sarah Jarosz

Old Flowers – Courtney Marie Andrews

Terms of Surrender – Hiss Golden Messenger

El Dorado – Marcus King

Good Souls Better Angels – Lucinda Williams

Best Bluegrass Album

Home – Billy Strings

Man on Fire – Danny Barnes

To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 1 – Thomm Jutz

North Carolina Songbook – Steep Canyon Rangers

The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 – Various Artists

Best Traditional Blues Album

Rawer than Raw – Bobby Rush

All My Dues are Paid – Frank Bey

You Make Me Feel – Don Bryant

That's What I Heard – Robert Cray Band

Cypress Grove – Jimmy "Duck" Holmes

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? – Fantastic Negrito

Live at the Paramount – Ruthie Foster Big Band

The Juice – G. Love

Blackbirds – Bettye LaVette

Up and Rolling – North Mississippi Allstars

Best Folk Album

All the Good Times – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman

Thanks for the Dance – Leonard Cohen

Song for Our Daughter – Laura Marling

Saturn Return – The Secret Sisters

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Atmosphere – New Orleans Nightcrawlers

My Relatives 'nikso' Kowaiks – Black Lodge Singers

Cameron Dupuy and The Cajun Troubadours – Cameron Dupuy And The Cajun Troubadours

Lovely Sunrise – Nā Wai ʽEhā

A Tribute to Al Berard – Sweet Cecilia

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

Got to Be Tough – Toots and the Maytals

Upside Down 2020 – Buju Banton

Higher Place – Skip Marley

It All Comes Black to Love – Maxi Priest

One World – The Wailers

Global music

Best Global Music Album

Twice as Tall – Burna Boy

Fu Chronicles – Antibalas

Agora – Bebel Gilberto

Love Letters – Anoushka Shankar

Amadjar – Tinariwen

Children's

Best Children's Album

All the Ladies – Joanie Leeds

Be a Pain: An Album for Young (and Old) Leaders – Alastair Moock And Friends

I'm an Optimist – Dog On Fleas

Songs for Singin' – The Okee Dokee Brothers

Wild Life – Justin Roberts

Spoken word

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow

Acid for the Children – A Memoir – Flea

Alex Trebek – The Answer Is... – Ken Jennings

Catch and Kill – Ronan Farrow

Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) – Meryl Streep and Full Cast

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish

I Love Everything – Patton Oswalt

The Pale Tourist – Jim Gaffigan

Paper Tiger – Bill Burr

23 Hours to Kill – Jerry Seinfeld

Musical theater

Best Musical Theater Album

Jagged Little Pill – Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding, Lauren Patten & Elizabeth Stanley, principal soloists; Neal Avron, Pete Ganbarg, Tom Kitt, Michael Parker, Craig Rosen & Vivek J. Tiwary, producers (Glen Ballard & Alanis Morissette, lyricists) (Original Broadway Cast)

Amélie – Audrey Brisson, Chris Jared, Caolan McCarthy & Jez Unwin, principal soloists; Michael Fentiman, Sean Patrick Flahaven, Barnaby Race & Nathan Tysen, producers; Nathan Tysen, lyricist; Daniel Messe, composer & lyricist (Original London Cast)

American Utopia on Broadway – David Byrne, principal soloist; David Byrne, producer (David Byrne, composer & lyricist) (Original Cast)

Little Shop of Horrors – Tammy Blanchard, Jonathan Groff & Tom Alan Robbins, principal soloists; Will Van Dyke, Michael Mayer, Alan Menken & Frank Wolf, producers (Alan Menken, composer; Howard Ashman, lyricist) (The New Off-Broadway Cast)

The Prince of Egypt – Christine Allado, Luke Brady, Alexia Khadime & Liam Tamne, principal soloists; Dominick Amendum & Stephen Schwartz, producers; Stephen Schwartz, composer & lyricist (Original Cast)

Soft Power – Francis Jue, Austin Ku, Alyse Alan Louis & Conrad Ricamora, principal soloists; Matt Stine, producer; David Henry Hwang, lyricist; Jeanine Tesori, composer & lyricist (Original Cast)

Music for visual media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Jojo Rabbit – Various artists

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Various artists

Bill & Ted Face the Music – Various artists

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Various artists

Frozen II – Various artists

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer

Ad Astra – Max Richter, composer

Becoming – Kamasi Washington, composer

1917 – Thomas Newman, composer

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media

"No Time to Die" (from No Time to Die)

Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell (Billie Eilish)

"Beautiful Ghosts" (from Cats)

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift)

"Carried Me with You" (from Onward)

Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth (Brandi Carlile)

"Into the Unknown" (from Frozen II)

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Idina Menzel featuring AURORA)

"Stand Up" (from Harriet)

Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo (Cynthia Erivo)

Composing/Arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

"Sputnik"

Maria Schneider, composer (Maria Schneider)

"Baby Jack"

Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra)

"Be Water II"

Christian Sands, composer (Christian Sands)

"Plumfield"

Alexandre Desplat, composer (Alexandre Desplat)

"Strata"

Remy Le Boeuf, composer (Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows featuring Anna Webber & Eric Miller)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

"Donna Lee"

John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley)

"Bathroom Dance"

Hildur Guðnadóttir, arranger (Hildur Guðnadóttir)

"Honeymooners"

Remy Le Boeuf, arranger (Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows)

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Alvin Chea & Jarrett Johnson, arrangers (Jarrett Johnson Featuring Alvin Chea)

"Uranus: The Magician"

Jeremy Levy, arranger (Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

"He Won't Hold You"

Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier featuring Rapsody)

"Asas Fechadas"

John Beasley & Maria Mendes, arrangers (Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Orkest Metropole)

"Desert Song"

Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Säje)

"From This Place"

Alan Broadbent & Pat Metheny, arrangers (Pat Metheny featuring Meshell Ndegeocello)

"Slow Burn"

Talia Billig, Nic Hard & Becca Stevens, arrangers (Becca Stevens featuring Jacob Collier, Mark Lettieri, Justin Stanton, Jordan Perlson, Nic Hard, Keita Ogawa, Marcelo Woloski & Nate Werth)

Package

Best Recording Package

Vols. 11 & 12

Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, art directors (Desert Sessions)

Everyday Life

Pilar Zeta, art director (Coldplay)

Funeral

Kyle Goen, art director (Lil Wayne)

Healer

Julian Gross & Hannah Hooper, art directors (Grouplove)

On Circles

Jordan Butcher, art director (Caspian)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Ode to Joy

Lawrence Azerrad & Jeff Tweedy, art directors (Wilco)

Flaming Pie (Collector's Edition)

Linn Wie Andersen, Simon Earith, Paul McCartney & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney)

Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991

Lisa Glines & Doran Tyson, art directors (Grateful Dead)

Mode

Jeff Schulz, art director (Depeche Mode)

The Story of Ghostly International

Michael Cina & Molly Smith, art directors (Various Artists)

Notes

Best Album Notes

Dead Man's Pop

Bob Mehr, album notes writer (The Replacements)

At The Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From The Studio, 1894-1926

Tim Brooks, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital Of The West, 1940-1974

Scott B. Bomar, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin To Jazz And Shaped The Music Business

Colin Hancock, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Out Of A Clear Blue Sky

David Sager, album notes writer (Nat Brusiloff)

Historical

Best Historical Album

It's Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers

Lee Lodyga & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Mister Rogers)

Celebrated, 1895–1896

Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer (Unique Quartette)

Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936–1943)

Zev Feldman, Will Friedwald & George Klabin, compilation producers; Matthew Lutthans, mastering engineer (Nat King Cole)

1999 Super Deluxe Edition

Michael Howe, compilation producer; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer (Prince)

Souvenir

Carolyn Agger, compilation producer; Miles Showell, mastering engineer (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)

Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions

Béla Fleck, compilation producer; Richard Dodd, mastering engineer (Béla Fleck)

Production, non-classical

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Hyperspace

Drew Brown, Andrew Coleman, Shawn Everett, Serban Ghenea, David Greenbaum, Jaycen Joshua, Beck Hansen & Mike Larson, engineers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer (Beck)

Black Hole Rainbow

Shawn Everett & Ivan Wayman, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Devon Gilfillian)

Expectations

Gary Paczosa & Mike Robinson, engineers; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer (Katie Pruitt)

Jaime

Shawn Everett, engineer; Shawn Everett, mastering engineer (Brittany Howard)

25 Trips

Shani Gandhi & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Adam Grover, mastering engineer (Sierra Hull)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Andrew Watt

"Break My Heart" (Dua Lipa)

"Me and My Guitar" (A Boogie wit da Hoodie)

"Midnight Sky" (Miley Cyrus)

"Old Me" (5 Seconds of Summer)

"Ordinary Man" (Ozzy Osbourne featuring Elton John)

"Take What You Want" (Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott)

"Under The Graveyard" (Ozzy Osbourne)

Jack Antonoff

"August" (Taylor Swift)

Gaslighter (The Chicks)

"Holy Terrain" (FKA Twigs featuring Future)

"Mirrorball" (Taylor Swift)

"This Is Me Trying" (Taylor Swift)

"Together" (Sia)

Dan Auerbach

Cypress Grove (Jimmy "Duck" Holmes)

El Dorado (Marcus King)

Is Thomas Callaway (CeeLo Green)

Singing for My Supper (Early James)

Solid Gold Sounds (Kendell Marvel)

Years (John Anderson)

Dave Cobb

"Backbone" (Kaleo)

The Balladeer (Lori McKenna)

Boneshaker (Airbourne)

Down Home Christmas (Oak Ridge Boys)

The Highwomen (The Highwomen)

"I Remember Everything" (John Prine)

Reunions (Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit)

"The Spark" (William Prince)

"You're Still the One" (Teddy Swims)

Flying Lotus

It Is What It Is (Thundercat)

Best Remixed Recording

"Roses (Imanbek Remix)"

Imanbek Zeikenov, remixer (SAINt JHN)

"Do You Ever (RAC Mix)"

RAC, remixer (Phil Good)

"Imaginary Friends (Morgan Page Remix)"

Morgan Page, remixer (Deadmau5)

"Praying for You (Louie Vega Main Remix)"

Louie Vega, remixer (Jasper Street Co.)

"Young & Alive (Bazzi vs. Haywyre Remix)"

Haywyre, remixer (Bazzi)

Production, immersive audio

Best Immersive Audio Album

The judging for this category was postponed.

Production, classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

"Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar'"

David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua"

Bernd Gottinger, engineer (JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus)

"Gershwin: Porgy and Bess"

David Frost & John Kerswell, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

"Hynes: Fields"

Kyle Pyke, engineer; Jesse Lewis & Kyle Pyke, mastering engineers (Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion)

"Ives: Complete Symphonies"

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Producer of the Year, Classical

David Frost

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 (Jonathan Biss)

Gershwin: Porgy And Bess (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Gluck: Orphée & Eurydice (Harry Bicket, Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman, Lauren Snouffer, Lyric Opera Of Chicago Orchestra & Chorus)

Holst: The Planets; The Perfect Fool (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Muhly: Marnie (Robert Spano, Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, Janis Kelly, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 845, D. 894, D. 958, D. 960 (Shai Wosner)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar' (Riccardo Muti, Alexey Tikhomirov, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

Blanton Alspaugh

Aspects Of America - Pulitzer Edition (Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Blessed Art Thou Among Women (Peter Jermihov, Katya Lukianov & PaTRAM Institute Singers)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Copland: Billy The Kid (Gianandrea Noseda & National Symphony Orchestra)

Glass: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Joseph Li, Nicholas Nestorak, Madison Leonard, Jonas Hacker, Ben Edquist, Matthew Adam Fleisher & Wolf Trap Opera)

Kahane: Emergency Shelter Intake Form (Alicia Hall Moran, Gabriel Kahane, Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Kastalsky: Requiem (Leonard Slatkin, Steven Fox, Benedict Sheehan, Charles Bruffy, Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, The Saint Tikhon Choir, Kansas City Chorale & Orchestra Of St. Luke's)

Massenet: Thaïs (Andrew Davis, Joshua Hopkins, Andrew Staples, Erin Wall, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Toronto Symphony Orchestra)

Smyth: The Prison (Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, James Blachly & Experiential Orchestra)

Woolf, L.P.: Fire And Flood (Julian Wachner, Matt Haimovitz & Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)

Jesse Lewis

Gunn: The Ascendant (Roomful Of Teeth)

Harrison, M.: Just Constellations (Roomful Of Teeth)

Her Own Wings (Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival)

Hynes: Fields (Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion)

Lang, D.: Love Fail (Beth Willer & Lorelei Ensemble)

Mazzoli: Proving Up (Christopher Rountree, Opera Omaha & International Contemporary Ensemble)

Sharlat: Spare The Rod! (NOW Ensemble)

Soul House (Hub New Music)

Wherein Lies The Good (The Westerlies)

Dmitry Lipay

Adams, J.: Must The Devil Have All The Good Tunes? (Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Cipullo: The Parting (Alastair Willis, Laura Strickling, Catherine Cook, Michael Mayes & Music Of Remembrance)

Ives: Complete Symphonies (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

LA Phil 100 - The Los Angeles Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Langgaard: Prelude To Antichrist; Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony Orchestra)

Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 & Symphony No. 2, 'The Four Temperaments' (Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony)

Elaine Martone

Bound For The Promised Land (Robert M. Franklin, Steven Darsey, Jessye Norman & Taylor Branch)

Dawn (Shachar Israel)

Gandolfi, Prior & Oliverio: Orchestral Works (Robert Spano & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)

Singing In The Dead Of Night (Eighth Blackbird)

Whitacre: The Sacred Veil (Eric Whitacre, Grant Gershon & Los Angeles Master Chorale)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

"Ives: Complete Symphonies"

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

"Aspects of America - Pulitzer Edition"

Carlos Kalmar, conductor (Oregon Symphony)

"Concurrence"

Daníel Bjarnason, conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra)

"Copland: Symphony No. 3"

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

"Lutosławski: Symphonies No. 2 & 3"

Hannu Lintu, conductor (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

"Gershwin: Porgy and Bess"

David Robertson, conductor; Angel Blue & Eric Owens; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

"Dello Joio: The Trial at Rouen"

Gil Rose, conductor; Heather Buck & Stephen Powell; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus)

"Floyd, C: Prince of Players"

William Boggs, conductor; Keith Phares & Kate Royal; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Florentine Opera Chorus)

"Handel: Agrippina"

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor; Joyce DiDonato; Daniel Zalay, producer (Il Pomo D'Oro)

"Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg"

Donald Runnicles, conductor; David Butt Philip & Elena Tsallagova; Peter Ghirardini & Erwin Stürzer, producers (Orchestra Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chorus Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin)

Best Choral Performance

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yessuah"

JoAnn Falletta, conductor; James K. Bass & Adam Luebke, chorus masters (James K. Bass, J'Nai Bridges, Timothy Fallon, Kenneth Overton, Hila Plitmann & Matthew Worth; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & UCLA Chamber Singers)

"Carthage"

Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing)

"Kastalski: Requiem"

Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Charles Bruffy, Steven Fox & Benedict Sheehan, chorus masters (Joseph Charles Beutel & Anna Dennis; Orchestra Of St. Luke's; Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Kansas City Chorale & The Saint Tikhon Choir)

"Moravec: Sanctuary Road"

Kent Tritle, conductor (Joshua Blue, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Dashon Burton, Malcolm J. Merriweather & Laquita Mitchell; Oratorio Society Of New York Orchestra; Oratorio Society Of New York Chorus)

"Once Upon a Time"

Matthew Guard, conductor (Sarah Walker; Skylark Vocal Ensemble)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

"Contemporary Voices" – Pacifica Quartet

"Healing Modes" – Brooklyn Rider

"Hearne, T,: Place" – Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra

"Hynes: Fields" – Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion

"The Schumann Quartets" – Dover Quartet

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

"Theofanidis: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra"

Richard O'Neill; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony)

"Adés: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

Kirill Gerstein; Thomas Adès, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

"Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas"

Igor Levit

"Bohemian Tales"

Augustin Hadelich; Jakub Hrůša, conductor (Charles Owen; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)

"Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival"

Daniil Trifonov; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

"Smyth: The Prison"

Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton; James Blachly, conductor (Experiential Chorus; Experiential Orchestra)

"American Composers at Play - William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto"

Stephen Powell (Attacca Quartet, William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Charles Neidich & Jason Vieaux)

"Clairières - Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger"

Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist

"Farinelli"

Cecilia Bartoli; Giovanni Antonini, conductor (Il Giardino Armonico)

"A Lad's Love"

Brian Giebler; Steven McGhee, accompanist (Katie Hyun, Michael Katz, Jessica Meyer, Reginald Mobley & Ben Russell)

Best Classical Compendium

"Thomas, M.T.: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke"

Isabel Leonard; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Jack Vad, producer

"Adès Conducts Adès"

Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn; Thomas Adès, conductor; Nick Squire, producer

"Saariaho: Graal Théâtre; Circle Map, Neiges, Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin"

Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor; Hans Kipfer, producer

"Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments and Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto"

José Serebrier, conductor; Jens Braun, producer

"Woolf, L.P.: Fire and Blood"

Matt Haimovitz; Julian Wachner, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

"Rouse: Symphony No. 5"

Christopher Rouse, composer (Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

"Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

Thomas Adès, composer (Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Adès & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua"

Richard Danielpour, composer (JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus)

"Floyd, C.: Prince of Players"

Carlisle Floyd, composer (William Boggs, Kate Royal, Keith Phares, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)

"Hearne, T.: Place"

Ted Hearne, composer (Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra)

Music video/film

Best Music Video

"Brown Skin Girl" – Beyoncé, Saint Jhn & Wizkid Featuring Blue Ivy Carter

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Jenn Nkiru, video directors; Lauren Baker, Astrid Edwards, Nathan Scherrer & Erinn Williams, video producers

"Life Is Good" – Future Featuring Drake

Julien Christian Lutz, video director; Harv Glazer, video producer

"Lockdown" – Anderson .Paak

Dave Meyers, video director; Nathan Scherrer, video producer

"Adore You" – Harry Styles

Dave Meyers, video director; Nathan Scherrer, video producer

"Goliath" – Woodkid

Yoann Lemoine, video director; Horace de Gunzbourg, video producer

Best Music Film

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice – Linda Ronstadt

Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, video directors; Michele Farinola & James Keach, video producers

Beastie Boys Story – Beastie Boys

Spike Jonze, video director; Amanda Adelson, Jason Baum & Spike Jonze, video producers

Black Is King – Beyoncé

Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule, Beyoncé Knowles Carter & Kwasi Fordjour, video directors; Lauren Baker, Akin Omotoso, Nathan Scherrer, Jeremy Sullivan & Erinn Williams, video producers

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme – Freestyle Love Supreme

Andrew Fried, video director; Andrew Fried, Jill Furman, Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarina Roma, Jenny Steingart & Jon Steingart, video producers

That Little Ol' Band From Texas – ZZ Top

Sam Dunn, video director; Scot McFadyen, video producer

#2021 #grammy awards

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matriarca-inodora · 4 years ago

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Brazilian Playlist for Dionysus

So, a while back I made a playlist for Apollo with songs by Brazilian artists.

I`ve decided to make one for Dionysus, since he`s been around a lot more often as of late. It`s still somewhat short, so please feel free to add songs to it, if you feel like it (also thinking about different aspects of Dionysus that weren`t included here). The more, the merrier!

Lá vem gente (Bloco da Laje)

Metamorfose Ambulante (Raul Seixas)

O Vira (Secos e Molhados)

Taj Mahal (Jorge Ben)

Maracatu Atômico (Chico Science)

Tico tico no Fubá (Ney Matogrosso)

@piristephes @ellakay69 I`m tagging you here because it might be of interest!

#dionysus #dionysus*#dionysos #dionísio #hellenic polytheism #pagan #politeísmo helenico #paganismo #música brasileira #playlist #brazilian music #pagan playlist #carnival songs #carnival #carnaval #blocos de carnaval #that got me thinking about the link between dionysus and bacchus and carnival traditions in Brazil #hmmmm maybe I should write about that

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limonadecandy · 4 years ago

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nobody asked for this, but here’s my review of my 5 fave albums of 2020

Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

When Rina Sawayama came out with Rina in 2018, I won't lie, I was quite disappointed. She was another queer woman singing about how much she loved other women, with the pretty Y2K aesthetics as only way to set her apart from the other artists. On November 2019, “STFU” was my wake-up call on how unique Sawayama is. Very few people can brag about juggling between alternative R&B, 2000's pop and nu-metal so flawlessly. Her voice allows her a musical versatility that hasn't been heard since Lady Gaga. SAWAYAMA goes even further, by making a complete pastiche of current and older tropes in american pop. The recuperation of nu-disco by the straights (“Comme des Garçons (Like The Boys)”), the cheesy 2000's ballad (”Chosen Family”, “Who's gonna save U now?”) pop-punk being worthy of deeper lyrics, here about fetishisation (”STFU!”), or dance-pop-stars used as publicity pancartes (“XS“), everything gets deconstructed under the very sharp eye of this political science graduate. Sawayama highlights everything that went wrong with american pop the past decade. A very british point of view, already seen in Blur's “Song 2″, which was a parody of the gimmicality of US grunge.

Pop parody is as well commmonly found within the hyperpop genre, whose fundations have been laid in London, by the label PC Music. Coincidentally, Danny L. Harle, one of its first members, can be found under the credits for “Chosen Family”. Clarence Clarity, her faved producer, re-ups for most of the album ; Clarity is also a frequent collaborator of hyperpop figure Dorian Electra, and remixed Charli XCX & Christine & The Queens' “Gone” last year.

Depending of everybody’s definition of hyperpop, SAWAYAMA can fit or not into the genre. There's no obvious noisy arrangements or autotuned vocals, but the self-awareness, the parody, the cyber and Y2K aesthetics can be found all over. Rina Sawayama seems to have intergrated all the lessons from this underground genre to airdrop it into the mainstream. If the future of pop is a politically charged maelström of finely crafted musical references, sung by a very skilled woman artist who's in charge of her artistry from A to Z, then we no longer don't have to worry for pop music’s future.

Laylow - TRINITY

French-language hip-hop has been experiencing its golden age since 2015, with a mainstream coverage and popularity never experienced before. The success of unclassable albums like PNL's Le Monde Chico, Damso's Ips��ité, or Orelsan's La Fête est Finie, have allowed local rappers integrate new genres to their sound, far from the expectations usually put on french rap, that was before then forced to include political lyricism and funky instrumentals to be considered worthy of a critical praise.

Although mysterious, Laylow is not a newcomer into the French rap scene. He is a close friend of the experimented parisian rapper Jok'air, and of Sneazzy, former member of 1995, arguably the most influent crew of the past decade. After featuring on their songs in 2017, he dropped four maxi Eps, including Digitalova, where he established once and for all his distinctive image : cyber-streetwear-high-fashion. Unsurprisingly, this fashion addict grew up listening to G-Unit and Ja Rule, representatives of the « bling-bling » side of hip-hop and its distinctive aesthetic sense.

However, Laylow's music doesn't sound in any way like his american models. It's throughoutly modern, claustrophobic at times, a gloominess commonly found in UK grime and early trap, paired with Autotune and synths that confere a synthetic feeling. There's something about Laylow's aesthetics that evoke, once again, PC Music's hyper pop, albeit in a less optimistic and more serious manner. The Toulouse-native doesn't rap about his everyday life, or his cosmopolitan past living experiences (he grew up between France, Ivory Coast and Tunisia) – he raps about an imaginary world that might become our daily reality in a few years.

An obvious reference can be seen in the album's title, Trinity : the Wachowski sister’s Matrix trilogy. The album's protagonist lives in the Matrix. While living a lavish existence, made of heavy drugs and parties (”Megatron”) he is seduced by the charming Trinity (“Trinityville”), and falls deeply in love with her, until he loses his mind (“Burning Man”). Afterwards, he is hit by delusions (“Poizon“), and ends up wandering in the streets alone, more depressed than ever (“Nakré”, “Logiciel Triste”). A trajectory that might be inspired from Paris 75016 by Lolita Pille, a controversial novel which describes the downfall of a parisian heiress to the hands of a playboy, in between two sniffs of coke, nights spent inthe hippest VIP clubs of Paris, big sports cars and overpriced Dior dresses.

Trinity might indeed be about capitalism, although in subtlety : the desire of owning overpriced products, the temporary joy of showing them off, and then, paychecks reminding us of the actual state of our finances. That brings us back to Laylow's beloved « bling-bling » US rap and their sense of camp, where you would see rappers from the lowest classes of american society flaunting real gold chains. An approach less parodic than SAWAYAMA's that focuses on the concrete psychological effects of capitalism. The discussion with the homeless man in “… De bâtard ” also works in favor of this theory.

For the french rap media “Le Règlement”, Trinity is, more prosaically, about a dystopian society where happiness software have replaced drugs to cure depression, sensibly inspired from Spike Jonze's Her. Everyone will see what they want to see in this album.

Regardless of its message, Trinity is an ambitious dystopian nightmare, made of haunting hooks, brutally honest words, and flawlessly picked guests (Alpha Wann, known for his finely crafted lyrics and being another 1995 alumni; the commercially succesful Lomepal and his emotional vision of rap, or the fashion icon S. Pri Noir). Would it be in english, it would be found at the top of most « Best Album of the Year » lists.

Kid Cudi - MAN IN THE MOON III : The Chosen

The therapist of a generation finally unveils the final act of his iconic trilogy. After polarizing experiments (Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven, Indicud) and a somewhat rushed therapeutic album (Pain, Passion & Demon Slayin'), Man on the Moon III : The Chosen is meant to be Kid Cudi's return to mainstream. The recent successes of Kids See Ghosts, with the tuteral figure of Kanye West, and, earlier this year, The Scotts, along his psychedelic spiritual son Travis Scott had paved the way for an outstanding perfprmance ; the music just had to match up. Unsurprisingly with Cudi, it does.

Man on the Moon III shows a very intricate knowledge of current hip-hop trends. Rather than copying it, Cudi integrates it to his compositions. Many may find the FL studio trap drum pattern redundant or overdone ; in Man of the Moon III, it is encountered with parsimony, and punctuates the track rather than supporting it entirely. An approach that evokes his use of pop hooks and choruses in the earlier parts of the trilogy. Just like his eternal sidekick Kanye West, Cudi seems to know how to write tracks that get better with the years. It might not be surprising to see it highly ranked in best of the decade lists in 2029.

As he closes the album with the sentence « To be continued », questions arise. Can we expect a Man on the Moon IV ? Probably not. The Man on the Moon has healed. He won't be a victim of the devil (his addictions) anymore, the lord has shown him the way. Along with Trippie Redd in “Rockstar Knights”, the Man on the Moon learnt that he is not alone in his loneliness, and learns how to tame it without relying on artificial paradises. Man on the Moon III feels like the end of a coming-of-age series. This is very likely not the last we'll hear of Scott Mescudi. Earlier in 2020, he hinted at the return of his neo-psychedelia band WZRD ; it's also very likely that the commercial success of The Scotts foresees a future collaborative EP between the two kings of alternative hip-hop. The Man of the Moon trilogy was a therapy not only for Kid Cudi, but for an entire generation. Mental health is now a common focus in hip-hop lyrics ; in MOTM 3, Cudi pass his baton to the young guns, such as Trippie Redd, who shares his love for mixing hip-hop and alternative rock, or Phoebe Bridgers, whose heartfelt lyrics about depression and anxiety have gained the hearts of many listeners worldwide.

King Krule - Man Alive!

Although more underground than his american counterpart, the British child prodigy is also well known for his frank portrayal of addiction and depression. His 2017 trip-hop masterpiece The OOZ received applause from your favorite self-proclaimed experts (hm sorry, should've simply said mainstream music columnists), who had been waiting for an equally hipster-friendly follow-up ever since. The thing is, despite his privately tutored education, Archy Marshall, better known as King Krule, isn't like them.

Behind his poetrical verses, there's a young man whose addictions have dragged to the lowest of lows. A modern dandy. The modern dandy subverts jazz, the bourgeoisie's favorite musical genre, and trails it on the road of rapping and punk sensibilities, two genres deeply intricated with working class history. The modern dandy watches the television, the upper-class’ resented television (”Cellular”, “Theme for the Cross”), and doesn't feel moved by superficiality (”Please Complete Thee”). To alleviate his existential pain, the modern dandy has tried everything, from drugs, to murder, to exile, before simply acknowledging he can't escape it.

MOTM3 and Man Alive! feel like two alternate endings of the same story : the Man of the Moon is throughoutly aware of the impact he has on people, and seems to be telling his stories so it becomes life lessons, a proof that we can go through it. The American Dream at its finest : even the lowest part of the underclass could pretend to living a successful existence. Man Alive! is a class-conscious album. No country in the world loves their working class more than the United Kingdom, despite the current treatment they've been subjected to by Tory governements throughout times. Working class stories punctuate British media, no matter if it's in television shows, music, or films. In these stories, a working class person can definitely escape their initial life settings ; however, they will always be working class underneath.

That's exactly what Man Alive! is about : the long lasting effects of depression, the social stigma of drug addictions, love and fatherhood erigated as universal remedies. Healing is possible, but still impacts your existence and your social identity. Man Alive! reminds the listeners to not forget and embrace where they are from, even if it’s socially perceived as “wrong”. The content might seem depressing at first approach, but once you dig into it deeply, there are still things you can hold into to survive. Appreciating the little things of life. Appreciating the love you receive. Man Alive! is without a doubt King Krule's most hopeful work yet.

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

What could be said about the most critically accaimed album of the year that hasn't been regurgitated a dozen of times already? Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a feminist firebrand, obviously. A post #MeToo album, a DIY prophecy, we get it. However, Fiona Apple goes even further than dwelling in the girlboss narrative pop culture has tirelessly branded as feminism over the past years : Apple redefines womanhood.

Apple's womanhood is standing together against a society that pits women against each other for men’s pleasure (”Shameika”, “Ladies”), Apple's womanhood is about men drugged by their own power raping innocent women (”For Her”) or being constanly put down by capitalistic and its nearly robotic avatars (”Relay”). Womanhood is a pain, but an escapable pain, as shown in the song that gives its name to the album, as well as in in “On I Go”, a mantra calling women back to action.

Suburban white moms love their esoterical feminism, based on the divine feminine and shoving expensive jade eggs down their vaginas. A commodified, sectarian, trannsphobic and at times harmful form of feminism, coopted by charlatanist brands lsuch as Goop. On the other hand, outside of the maisntream, Apple's feminism is throughoutly inclusive. She doesn't want women to pit themselves against each other anymore (”Ladies”) ; she's a white woman giving flowers to her black classmate (”Shameika”). Apple's view of feminity is not based in the reject of men, but on unifying women and anyone that has once been perceived as female on the basis of what they've gone through due to their gender. No divine vulva bullshit here, just raw power and the intention to fight back.

Fetch the Bolt Cutters is probably her most energetic album. The rythm often gets carried away, and so do her words. It's at times extremely catchy (”Relay”, or again, “Shameika”). Regardless, the crude lyrics won't make it possible to broadcast on national radios. Apple writes catchy songs unintentionally. Her intent is not to sell, but to tell, and she tells it in such a striking way that her words remain in your heart even long after the first listen. Even her experimental arrangements, such as her dead dog's bones on “Drumset”, leave a lasting impression. A cross-genre approach that evokes at times one of the greatest (and most criminally underrated) pop albums ever, Sheena Ringo's Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana.

Fetch the Bolt Cutters is worth any praise it received, and grandiosly introduced an entirely new generation of listeners to Apple's talent. One of the most important voices of our times, that had sadly been silenced for too long by an industry that despises women who are aware of their worth.

#review #english isn't my first language #text post

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the-marx-brothers-will-live-on · 4 years ago

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Arthur "Harpo" Marx (born Adolph Marx; November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho Marx and Chico Marx, Harpo's comic style was visual, being an example of both clown and pantomime traditions. He wore a curly reddish blond wig, and never spoke during performances (he blew a horn or whistled to communicate). He frequently used props such as a horn cane, made up of a pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn, and he played the harp in most of his films.

Harpo was born on November 23, 1888, in Manhattan. He grew up in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue. The turn-of-the-century tenement that Harpo later called (in his autobiography Harpo Speaks!) "the first real home I can remember" was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans—which even included a glass blower. Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people like David L. Loew and William Orth.

Harpo's parents were Sam Marx (called "Frenchie" throughout his life) and his wife, Minnie Schoenberg Marx. Minnie's brother was Al Shean. Marx's family was Jewish. His mother was from East Frisia in Germany, and his father was a native of Alsace in France and worked as a tailor.

Harpo received little formal education and left grade school at age eight (mainly due to bullying) during his second attempt to pass the second grade. He began to work, gaining employment in numerous odd jobs alongside his brother Chico to contribute to the family income, including selling newspapers, working in a butcher shop, and as an errand office boy.

In January 1910, Harpo joined two of his brothers, Julius (later "Groucho") and Milton (later "Gummo"), to form "The Three Nightingales", later changed to simply "The Marx Brothers". Multiple stories—most unsubstantiated—exist to explain Harpo's evolution as the "silent" character in the brothers' act. In his memoir, Groucho wrote that Harpo simply wasn't very good at memorizing dialogue, and thus was ideal for the role of the "dunce who couldn't speak", a common character in vaudeville acts of the time.

Harpo gained his stage name during a card game at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois. The dealer (Art Fisher) called him "Harpo" because he played the harp. He learned how to hold it properly from a picture of an angel playing a harp that he saw in a five-and-dime. No one in town knew how to play the harp, so Harpo tuned it as best he could, starting with one basic note and tuning it from there. Three years later he found out he had tuned it incorrectly, but he could not have tuned it properly; if he had, the strings would have broken each night. Harpo's method placed much less tension on the strings.[citation needed] Although he played this way for the rest of his life, he did try to learn how to play correctly, and he spent considerable money hiring the best teachers. They spent their time listening to him, fascinated by the way he played. The major exception was Mildred Dilling, a professional harpist who did teach Harpo the proper techniques of the instrument and collaborated with him regularly when he had difficulty with various compositions.

In the autobiography Harpo Speaks! (1961), he recounts how Chico found him jobs playing piano to accompany silent movies. Unlike Chico, Harpo could play only two songs on the piano, "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" and "Love Me and the World Is Mine," but he adapted this small repertoire in different tempos to suit the action on the screen. He was also seen playing a portion of Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C# minor" in A Day at the Races and chords on the piano in A Night at the Opera, in such a way that the piano sounded much like a harp, as a prelude to actually playing the harp in that scene.

Harpo had changed his name from Adolph to Arthur by 1911. This was due primarily to his dislike for the name Adolph (as a child, he was routinely called "Ahdie" instead). The name change may have also happened because of the similarity between Harpo's name and Adolph Marks, a prominent show business attorney in Chicago. Urban legends stating that the name change came about during World War I due to anti-German sentiment in the US, or during World War II because of the stigma that Adolf Hitler imposed on the name, are groundless.

His first screen appearance was in the film Humor Risk (1921), with his brothers, although according to Groucho, it was only screened once and then lost. Four years later, Harpo appeared without his brothers in Too Many Kisses (1925), four years before the brothers' first released film, The Cocoanuts (1929). In Too Many Kisses, Harpo spoke the only line he would ever speak on-camera in a movie: "You sure you can't move?" (said to the film's tied-up hero before punching him). Fittingly, it was a silent movie, and the audience saw only his lips move and the line on a title card.

Harpo was often cast as Chico's eccentric partner-in-crime, whom he would often help by playing charades to tell of Groucho's problem, and/or annoy by giving Chico his leg, either to give it a rest or as an alternative to a handshake.

Harpo became known for prop-laden sight gags, in particular the seemingly infinite number of odd things stored in his topcoat's oversized pockets. In the film Horse Feathers (1932), Groucho, referring to an impossible situation, tells Harpo that he cannot "burn the candle at both ends." Harpo immediately produces from within his coat pocket a lit candle burning at both ends. In the same film, a homeless man on the street asks Harpo for money for a cup of coffee, and he subsequently produces a steaming cup, complete with saucer, from inside his coat. Also in Horse Feathers, he has a fish and a sword, and when he wants to go to his speakeasy, he stabs the fish in its mouth with his sword to give the password, "Swordfish." In Duck Soup, he produces a lit blowtorch to light a cigar. As author Joe Adamson put in his book, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo, "The president of the college has been shouted down by a mute."

Harpo often used facial expressions and mime to get his point across. One of his facial expressions, which he used in every Marx Brothers film and stage play, beginning with Fun in Hi Skule, was known as "the Gookie." Harpo created it by mimicking the expression of Mr. Gehrke, a New York tobacconist who would make a similar face while concentrating on rolling cigars.

Harpo further distinguished his character by wearing a "fright wig". Early in his career it was dyed pink, as evidenced by color film posters of the time and by allusions to it in films, with character names such as "Pinky" in Duck Soup. It tended to show as blond on-screen due to the black-and-white film stock at the time. Over time, he darkened the pink to more of a reddish color, again films alluded to it with character names such as "Rusty".

His non-speaking in his early films was occasionally referred to by the other Marx Brothers, who were careful to imply that his character's not speaking was a choice rather than a disability. They would make joking reference to this part of his act. For example, in Animal Crackers his character was ironically dubbed "The Professor". In The Cocoanuts, this exchange occurred:

Groucho: "Who is this?"

Chico: "Dat's-a my partner, but he no speak."

Groucho: "Oh, that's your silent partner!"

In later films, Harpo was repeatedly put in situations where he attempted to convey a vital message by whistling and pantomime, reinforcing the idea that his character was unable to speak.

The Marxes' film At the Circus (1939) contains a unique scene where Harpo is ostensibly heard saying "A-choo!" twice, as he sneezes. It is unclear, however, whether he actually voiced the line, or if he mimed it while someone said it off-camera.

In 1933, following U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, he spent six weeks in Moscow as a performer and goodwill ambassador. His tour was a huge success. Harpo's name was transliterated into Russian, using the Cyrillic alphabet, as ХАРПО МАРКС, and was billed as such during his Soviet Union appearances. Harpo, having no knowledge of Russian, pronounced it as "Exapno Mapcase". At that time Harpo and the Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov became friends and even performed a routine on stage together. During this time he served as a secret courier; delivering communiques to and from the US embassy in Moscow at the request of Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, Jr., smuggling the messages in and out of Russia by taping a sealed envelope to his leg beneath his trousers, an event described in David Fromkin's 1995 book In the Time of the Americans. In Harpo Speaks!, Marx describes his relief at making it out of the Soviet Union, recalling how "I pulled up my pants, ripped off the tape, unwound the straps, handed over the dispatches from Ambassador Bullitt, and gave my leg its first scratch in ten days."

The Russia trip was later memorialized in a bizarre science fiction novella, The Foreign Hand Tie by Randall Garrett, a tale of telepathic spies which is full of references to the Marx Brothers and their films (The title itself is a Marx-like pun on the dual ideas of a "foreign hand" and a style of neckwear known as a "four-in-hand tie.")

In 1936, he was one of a number of performers and celebrities to appear as caricatures in the Walt Disney Production of Mickey's Polo Team. Harpo was part of a team of polo-playing movie stars which included Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy. His mount was an ostrich. Walt Disney would later have Harpo (with Groucho and Chico) appear as one of King Cole's "Fiddlers Three" in the Silly Symphony Mother Goose Goes Hollywood.

Harpo was also caricatured in Sock-A-Bye Baby (1934), an early episode of the Popeye cartoon series created by Fleischer Studios. Harpo is playing the harp, and wakes up Popeye's baby, and then Popeye punches and apparantly "kills" him. (After Popeye hits him, a halo appears over his head and he floats to the sky.)

Friz Freleng's 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon The Coo-Coo Nut Grove featuring animal versions of assorted celebrities, caricatures Harpo as a bird with a red beak. When he first appears, he is chasing a woman, but the woman later turns out to be Groucho.

Harpo also took an interest in painting, and a few of his works can be seen in his autobiography. In the book, Marx tells a story about how he tried to paint a nude female model, but froze up because he simply did not know how to paint properly. The model took pity on him, however, showing him a few basic strokes with a brush, until finally Harpo (fully clothed) took the model's place as the subject and the naked woman painted his portrait.

Harpo recorded an album of harp music for RCA Victor (Harp by Harpo, 1952) and two for Mercury Records (Harpo in Hi-Fi, 1957; Harpo at Work, 1958).

Harpo made television appearances through the 1950s and 60s, including a 1955 episode of I Love Lucy, in which he and Lucille Ball re-enacted the famous mirror scene from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup (1933).[19] In this scene, they are both supposed to be Harpo, not Groucho; he stays the same and she is dressed as him. About this time, he also appeared on NBC's The Martha Raye Show. Harpo and Chico played a television anthology episode of General Electric Theater entitled "The Incredible Jewelry Robbery" entirely in pantomime in 1959, with a brief surprise appearance by Groucho at the end. In 1960, he appeared in an episode of The DuPont Show with June Allyson entitled "A Silent Panic", playing a deaf-mute who, as a "mechanical man" in a department store window, witnessed a gangland murder. In 1961, he made guest appearances on The Today Show, Play Your Hunch, Candid Camera, I've Got a Secret, Here's Hollywood, Art Linkletter's House Party, Groucho's quiz show You Bet Your Life, The Ed Sullivan Show, and Your Surprise Package to publicize his autobiography Harpo Speaks!.

In November 1961 he guest-starred with Carol Burnett in an installment of The DuPont Show of the Week entitled "The Wonderful World of Toys". The show was filmed in Central Park and featured Marx playing "Autumn Leaves" on the harp. Other stars appearing in the episode included Eva Gabor, Audrey Meadows, Mitch Miller and Milton Berle. A visit to the set inspired poet Robert Lowell to compose a poem about Marx.

Harpo's two final television appearances came less than a month apart in late 1962. He portrayed a guardian angel on CBS's The Red Skelton Show on September 25. He guest starred as himself on October 20 in the episode "Musicale" of ABC's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a sitcom starring Fess Parker, based on the 1939 Frank Capra film.

Harpo married actress Susan Fleming on September 28, 1936. The wedding became public knowledge after President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent the couple a telegram of congratulations the following month. Harpo's marriage, like Gummo's, was lifelong. (Groucho was divorced three times, Zeppo twice, Chico once.) The couple adopted four children: Bill, Alex, Jimmy, and Minnie. When he was asked by George Burns in 1948 how many children he planned to adopt, he answered, "I’d like to adopt as many children as I have windows in my house. So when I leave for work, I want a kid in every window, waving goodbye."

Harpo was good friends with theater critic Alexander Woollcott, and became a regular member of the Algonquin Round Table. He once said his main contribution was to be the audience for the quips of other members. In their play The Man Who Came to Dinner, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart based the character of "Banjo" on Harpo. Harpo later played the role in Los Angeles opposite Woollcott, who had inspired the character of Sheridan Whiteside.

In 1961 Harpo published his autobiography, Harpo Speaks!. Because he never spoke a word in character, many believed he actually was mute. In fact, radio and TV news recordings of his voice can be found on the Internet, in documentaries, and on bonus materials of Marx Brothers DVDs. A reporter who interviewed him in the early 1930s wrote that "he [Harpo] ... had a deep and distinguished voice, like a professional announcer", and like his brothers, spoke with a New York accent his entire life. According to those who personally knew him, Harpo's voice was much deeper than Groucho's, but it also sounded very similar to Chico's. His son, Bill, recalled that in private Harpo had a very deep and mature soft-spoken voice, but that he was "not verbose" like the other Marx brothers; Harpo preferred listening and learning from others.

Harpo's final public appearance came on January 19, 1963, with singer/comedian Allan Sherman. Sherman burst into tears when Harpo announced his retirement from the entertainment business. Comedian Steve Allen, who was in the audience, remembered that Harpo spoke for several minutes about his career, and how he would miss it all, and repeatedly interrupted Sherman when he tried to speak. The audience found it charmingly ironic, Allen said, that Harpo, who had never before spoken on stage or screen, "wouldn't shut up!" Harpo, an avid croquet player, was inducted into the Croquet Hall of Fame in 1979.

Harpo Marx died on September 28, 1964, (his 28th wedding anniversary), at age 75 in a West Los Angeles hospital, one day after undergoing heart surgery. Harpo's death was said to have hit the surviving Marx brothers very hard. Groucho's son Arthur Marx, who attended the funeral with most of the Marx family, later said that Harpo's funeral was the only time in his life that he ever saw his father cry. In his will, Harpo Marx donated his trademark harp to the State of Israel. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered at a golf course in Rancho Mirage, California.

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Successful stories of Ecobricking

Successful stories of Ecobricking in the Philippines

Ecobricks Movement Gaining Ground in Ph

-Stanley Gajete, The Manila Times

The article focused on the involvement of more people in the act of making Ecobricks and their contribution to spreading this advocacy to universities and other institutions.

“In the beginning, it was more like for fun because we loved the oceans. But it was from there that we realized we had to do more for the environment. Then we also had to help people

[living near the seas and oceans] because they were part of the ecosystem or environment,” said Raf Dionisio, a social entrepreneur, co-founder of different social advocacies, and volunteer for Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm in Bulacan, in Filipino.

Camille Rodriguez, former vice president for project management at the Ateneo Environmental Science Society (AESS), said partnering with an organization that has a green advocacy made her become an environmentalist by heart and by practice. She eventually offered the Ecobrick solution to her networks.

“I’ve overseen and managed all of the organization’s [AESS] flagship projects during the past school year. At the start of the SY [school year], I introduced the Ecobrick advocacy first among the executive board members, then to the rest of the org [organization] by incorporating it with the org’s projects,” she said.

According to her, the Ecobrick movement also caught the attention of the Ateneo community through social media. Since the organization became the official drop-off point for Ecobricks around the Philippines, AESS has been receiving dozens of Ecobrinks every week and inquiries about the advocacy.

“The best part about driving the Ecobrick movement is hearing the positive feedback from various individuals, expressing their interest and joy that such project exists. According to them, the best part about Ecobricks is that it is easy to do, have become a habit, and goes to a good cause,” Camille said.

Ecobrick: A building block in saving our home

Janna Lim, Cebu Daily News Inquirer, January 18, 2018

According to environmental group Greenpeace, the Philippines is ranked third highest contributor to ocean pollution. Cebu alone already provides 600 tons of trash per day. If these facts do not sound embarrassing enough, then there is a serious problem on how to get people to take action in today’s age of non-biodegradable consumerism.

The Tutoring Club of Cebu, in partnership with Engineering For Kids, launched the Ecobrick Green Campaign on November 25 at Banilad Town Center.

At the same event, Tutoring Club, together with Banilad Town Center, launched the first-ever Litter-Letter Project in Asia which is a way to collect plastic bottles from the public and turning them into ecobricks. Tutoring Club will be initiating a series of training on ecobricking among different schools and barangays. This training will not only focus on the “hows” but also emphasize on the “whys”.

This is just the start of a revolution in creating a plastic-free world by saving the environment one ecobrick at a time. The goal of ecobricking is to reach a point wherein there is nothing to “ecobrick” anymore.

This Canadian Accidentally Discovered How to Solve Our Plastic Problem

Christa I. Dela Cruz, SPOT.PH, August 10, 2017

We dug a little deeper and got in touch with the founder himself, Canadian artist Russell Maier, who's currently in Indonesia working his Ecobricks magic. In this SPOT.ph interview, he narrates with enthusiasm how, while in the valleys of Sagada, he discovered a great way to solve our plastic problem—and how it has now turned into a global phenomenon.

How did the Ecobricks project start?

Discovering Ecobricks was a joyous epiphany for me. Finally, a solution for plastic.

My story starts in the Northern Philippines, while I was stranded for four years in the remote villages of the Cordilleras. In 2009, I had made the small municipality of Sabangan my home after a heartbroken burnout of my personal plans. Sabangan is an incredibly beautiful village in the Chico River valley, surrounded by mountains and verdant terraced hills. It’s about a three-hour hike away from Sagada. I rebuilt my life and regained my direction there.

I began to experiment with all sorts of techniques and creations for upcycling the plastic, anything to keep it out of the Chico River. However, it struck me that even when we turned the plastic into upcycled bags, purses, mats—we weren't solving anything. Eventually, this stuff would break and be thrown out, too.

In 2010, my friend Sir Ernesto, a local councilor, let me experiment in his river-front farm with a Central American technique of putting sand into plastic bottles to make bricks. We gathered sand down by the river’s shore, very close to where the plastic was being burned. Some plastic ended up in our sand bottle bricks and it didn't seem to be a problem. We decided to try a mix of sand and plastic. Still no problem—the bricks were solid and useable. Finally, we just stuffed in pure plastic and it worked just fine.

I remember just staring for a full hour at these plastic bottle bricks in sheer wonder. My soul had begun to sing with joy: "This is a solution for the plastic!” We rebuilt Sir Ernesto’s house with them and visitors come from all over to see it. I have focused my life on developing and disseminating this joy ever since. “Ecobricks,” as we came to name it, is [now] a global phenomenon. Others have stumbled upon and begun the technique in Ecuador, South Africa, Nicaragua, and more. Like me, they came to realize it was a deep solution for their plastic.

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Next participant for #PrintCamp2019 Session 2/2 in alphabetical order:

AMANDA KRALOVIC

@calicovineprintshop

ON HER WORK:

My work is a reflection of what I see within this world and how my mind transforms it. In my everyday life, I correlate the past with the present, which bridges the connection between my mind and physical self. My life is a constant struggle of working through the past and wandering through the present. I often find myself alone, consumed with my thoughts, emotions, and memories. Through the struggles of life, I learn and grow by translating this process onto paper.

I pull from both my past and present experiences, and layout onto paper my world, my thoughts and my feelings. Translating my physical and mental emotions, I extract shapes, patterns, and colors as visual metaphors. I work to create a language of communication through the use of physical and visual objects as they relate to the physical body and the emotional process of my mind’s thoughts and development.

My work is completed in layers, building up my surfaces layer-by-layer. Each layer is defined with color, using shapes and patterns to form each layer. As the layers come together they form imperfections, creating gaps, spaces and jagged edges that represent the realities of life. Living in a world where nothing is perfect I struggle to hold myself together. Through this analytical process of breaking the image down into layers and color, I pull not only the image together but also myself.

Recently, my work has been focused on the movement of water, both on the surface and underneath. I am challenging myself to connect with the movement and sounds it makes both mentally, physically and emotionally. As a swimmer, I hid my emotions in the pool, now I aim to use water to portray my emotions more openly. As well water is a reflective device that gives way when manipulated. In my upcoming works, I am planning to use floating and moving objects, such as the physical body, and portray what it does to the surface of water.

WHAT SHE WILL BE DOING AT PRINTCAMP:

I am hoping to develop a series of images with hand-drawn hands and feet manipulating water. The water would be displayed through the use of pattern that has been manipulated by the computer and screen printed on matboard to make collagraph plates. Drawings of hands and feet will be added using litho – stone or photo. As well I would be interested in working on a large 18” x 24” intaglio with sugarlift.

SKILLSHARE:

I would be happy to give a demo on using screen printing on mat board or other surfaces to create collagraph plates. I have also been using a sugar lift solution to screen print on copper. I have been aquatinting it and layering it on the surface of the plate.

RESUME:

2015 MFA Printmaking, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth MA

2004 BA Studio Art, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2019 Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant MI

2018 SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury NY

University of Albany/SUNY, Albany NY

Westfield State U, Westfield, MA

2016 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

2014 – 2015 U of Massachusetts Dartmouth MA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2019 Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis MO

2018 Tell Me A Story: A Group of Exhibition of Narrative Art, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties NY

Solo Exhibition, Members Hall gallery, Saratoga Arts, Saratoga NY

Bodies in Motion, Chico Art Center, Chico CA

2017 Regional Juried Exhibition, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington DE

Solo: Emotional Abstract Landscapes, Saratoga Arts, Reception Gallery, Saratoga Springs NY

Prismatic Explorations, Lapham Gallery/LARAC, Glens Falls NY

Petit, Part 2, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties NY

2016 Southern Printmaking Biennale VII International, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega GA

Petit, Part 1, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties NY

Unbound VI, Artistree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret VT

NJC: Works on Paper 2016, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies NJ

2016 College Collective – Book Arts, Genesee Center for the Arts & Education, Rochester NY

29th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles LA

4th Biennial International Open Print Show, Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri NZ

2015

5th Annual Armstrong 2D National Exhibition, Armstrong State University Gallery, Savannah GA

Telling Tales, TEJAS Gallery, Dayton OH

National Printmaking Exhibition 2015, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita KS

Force of Nature: Exploring the Power of the Feminine, WCA/NH National Juried Exhibition, Karl Drerup Art Gallery & Silver Cntr for the Arts, Plymouth State University, Plymouth NH

http://printmakersopenforum.org/printcamp_all_print_media_workshop

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Like with any reality TV series, some of the cast members on Netflix's The Circle come onto the show already being well-known within the social media world as influencers. Others, meanwhile, slowly gather a following as episodes of the show stream. Regardless of how or when they acquired their followers, the cast of season 2 of The Circle includes both those who have thousands of followers already and those who only have followers in the four figures.

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Chances are that by the end of the show, however, most, if not all, of the cast members will have doubled or tripled their social media following. For now, however, how do they rank?

9 Lisa (Lance Bass) – 2,805

Lisa came into the house fully confident that she would be able to fool everyone into believing she was Lance Bass from the '90s boy band NSYNC since she has worked as his personal assistant for years and knows him in and out. The problem is that most of the cast is in their 20s and doesn't even know who Bass is.

While Bass himself has more than half a million Instagram followers, Lisa (@liseed) only has a few thousand, ranking her last on the list. She seems fairly new to Instagram, however, with only about a dozen posts to date, the first of which was posted in December 2020.

8 Lee (River) – 5,681

Lee, a boomer pretending to be a 24-year-old gay man, is an author who has written several books, which he promotes via his Instagram account @leeswiftauthor. He has experience pretending to be someone else since he writes many of his books under a pen name.

He has written romance novels under the pseudonyms Kris Cook and Lana Lynn. Lee believes his ability to pretend to be someone else along with his gift for putting pen to paper (or voice to text, in this case) would help him in the game. But while he is famous in the novelist world, he isn't quite a social media influencer just yet.

7 Jack (Emily) – 8,046

Jack has a fun personality and believes he can fool everyone by pretending to be a young woman named Emily, using the photo of his actual friend for his fake profile. He has a long way to go on social media, though, as he has just over 8,000 followers on Instagram under his handle @jackatkins21.

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That said, like all cast members, his following continues to rise so chances are he might have significantly more as time goes on. He doesn't promote much on the page, which seems fairly new with only 25 posts to date, even though the first is dated in 2018.

6 Terilisha – 17,800

While she went onto the show touting her job as a teacher along with her love of science, according to Terilisha's Instagram page, @terilisha, she is a recording artist, songwriter, and actress as well. She has a decent following of more than 17,000 followers that continues to grow as she sparks conflict in the house.

Her Instagram page promotes her own website as well, which features audio clips of her songs, a variety of photos, and links to her music on streaming sites like Apple Music and Spotify.

5 Courtney – 31,000

Courtney came into the game with a pretty solid social media following on Instagram already (@courtneyrevolution) thanks to his pop culture and celebrity gossip podcast Overheard In The Pantry and YouTube channel.

He posts mainly photos of himself on his social media, including ones he has turned into memes. He also posts a link to purchase merchandise and listen to his podcast and YouTube channels.

4 Deleesa (Trevor) - 56,300

While she doesn't have a six-figure following on Instagram (@leesaunique), Deleesa still has an impressive following for her account, where she shares modeling photos.

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She does include photos with her daughter as well as her husband Trevor, who she is playing as in the house. Deleesa also uses her platform to promote positive messages, including bringing awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement, a statement that has also appeared prominently on her clothing on The Circle. She also promotes the website for her Be Unique shop, which sells everything from clothing to lashes and accessories, and even recently shared details of the swag box she received from Netflix.

3 Savannah – 272,000

Also a real-life influencer as well as the first influencer in the game, on Instagram (@savpalacio) posts a lot of modeling photos and does some brand endorsements already. Her Instagram also promotes herself as a "digital creator."

At 25 years old, the Los Angeles, California native came into the game already a bona fide social media celebrity. So, it's no surprise that Savannah was instantly popular in the house, named one of the first two influencers of the season.

2 Bryant – 501,000

Fans might be surprised to know that Bryant, the meditation teacher, actually has the second-highest number of followers on Instagram (@bryant.give) at over half a million. This makes him an actual influencer, even if he didn't get that title on the show.

The 27-year-old Chico, California native uses his Instagram account to promote his business, Modern Nirvana, which offers services like personalized coaching and meditation videos. While he alluded to his past life on the show, what fans might not know is that he actually appeared on America's Next Top Model in 2015 when he was just 21, though he did not make it far.

1 Chloe – 1.4 Million

The reason that Chloe (@chloeveitchofficial) came onto the show already with more than a million followers is that she appeared on another Netflix reality show, Too Hot To Handle. This prior appearance, along with her bubbly and eccentric personality, has made Chloe a popular internet personality.

The 22-year-old woman from Essex, England posts lots of content on Instagram, including a series of beautifully posed photos in fashionable outfits or bikini wear, or doing fun and exciting things like drinking champagne in a bubble bath and hanging with friends. She has been active for some time, with close to 500 posts on the site.

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Beyoncé and Taylor Swift make Grammy history: Full winner list

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Beyoncé and Taylor Swift make Grammy history: Full winner list

Beyoncé has set a new record at the Grammy Awards with her 28th win, the BBC reports.

The star is now the most-awarded woman in Grammys history, overtaking bluegrass singer Alison Krauss.

“I am so honoured, I’m so excited,” she said while accepting her record-breaking trophy, for best R&B performance.

Taylor Swift also made history at Sunday’s ceremony, by becoming the first female artist ever to win album of the year three times.

The star was rewarded for her lockdown album Folklore – after previously winning with Fearless in 2010 and the pop opus 1989 in 2016.

Only three other artists have ever won the album of the year prize three times: Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.

Record of the Year

Beyoncé – Black Parade Black Pumas – Colors DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch – Rockstar Doja Cat – Say So WINNER: Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now Post Malone – Circles Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé – Savage

Album of the Year

Jhené Aiko – Chilombo Black Pumas – Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition) Coldplay – Everyday Life Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 3 Haim – Women in Music Pt. III Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding WINNER: Taylor Swift – Folklore

Best R&B Performance

Jhené Aiko Featuring John Legend – Lightning & Thunder WINNER: Beyoncé – Black Parade Jacob Collier Featuring Mahalia & Ty Dolla $ign – All I Need Brittany Howard – Goat Head Emily King – See Me

Best Pop Vocal Album

Justin Bieber – Changes Lady Gaga – Chromatica WINNER: Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia Harry Styles – Fine Line Taylor Swift – Folklore

Best Rap Song

Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture Roddy Ricch – The Box Drake Featuring Lil Durk – Laugh Now, Cry Later DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch – Rockstar WINNER: Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé – Savage

Song of the Year

Beyoncé – Black Parade Roddy Ricch – The Box Taylor Swift – Cardigan Post Malone – Circles Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted WINNER: H.E.R. – I Can’t Breathe JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels – If the World Was Ending

Best Latin Pop or Urban Album

WINNER: Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG Camilo – Por Primera Vez Kany Garcia – Mesa Para Dos Ricky Martin – Pausa Deb Nova – 3:33

Best Melodic Rap Performance

DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch – Rockstar Drake Featuring Lil Durk – Laugh Now, Cry Later WINNER: Anderson .Paak – Lockdown Roddy Ricch – The Box Travis Scott – Highest in the Room

Best Pop Solo Performance

Justin Bieber – Yummy Doja Cat – Say So Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now WINNER: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar Taylor Swift – Cardigan

Best Country Album

Ingrid Andress – Lady Like Brandy Clark – Your Life Is a Record WINNER: Miranda Lambert – Wildcard Little Big Town – Nightfall Ashley McBryde – Never Will

Best New Artist

Ingrid Andress Phoebe Bridgers Noah Cyrus Chika D Smoke Doja Cat Kaytranada WINNER: Megan Thee Stallion

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Jack Antonoff Dan Auerbach Dave Cobb Flying Lotus WINNER: Andrew Watt

Best Country Song

Miranda Lambert – Bluebird Maren Morris – The Bones WINNER: The Highwomen – Crowded Table Ingrid Andress – More Hearts than Mine Old Dominion – Some People Do

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

Brothers Osborne – All Night WINNER: Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber – 10,000 Hours Lady A – Ocean Little Big Town – Sugar Coat Old Dominion – Some People Do

Best Country Solo Performance

Eric Church – Stick That in Your Country Song Brandy Clark – Who You Thought I Was WINNER: Vince Gill – When My Amy Prays Mickey Guyton – Black Like Me Miranda Lambert – Bluebird

Best Rock Album

Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka Grace Potter – Daylight Sturgill Simpson – Sound and Fury WINNER: The Strokes – The New Abnormal

Best Rock Song

Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto Tame Impala – Lost in Yesterday Big Thief – Not Fiona Apple – Shameika WINNER: Brittany Howard – Stay High

Best Metal Performance

WINNER: Body Count – Bum-Rush Code Orange – Underneath In the Moment – The In-Between Poppy – Bloodmoney Power Trip – Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe) – Live

Best Rock Performance

WINNER: Fiona Apple – Shameika Big Thief – Not Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto HAIM – The Steps Brittany Howard – Stay High Grace Potter – Daylight

Best Rap Album

D SMOKE – Black Habits Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Alfredo Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony WINNER: Nas – King’s Disease Royce 5’9” – The Allegory

Best Rap Performance

Big Sean Featuring Nipsey Hussle – Deep Reverence DaBaby – Bop Jack Harlow – What’s Poppin Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture WINNER: Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé – Savage Pop Smoke – Dior

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

(Burt Bacharach &) Daniel Tashian – Blue Umbrella Harry Connick, Jr. – True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter WINNER: James Taylor – American Standard Rufus Wainwright – Unfollow the Rules Renée Zellweger – Judy

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy – Un Dia (One Day) Justin Bieber Featuring Quavo – Intentions BTS – Dynamite WINNER: Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande – Rain On Me Taylor Swift Featuring Bon Iver – Exile

Best R&B Album

Ant Clemons – Happy 2 Be Here Giveon – Take Time Luke James – To Feel Love/d WINNER: John Legend – Bigger Love Gregory Porter – All Rise

Best Progressive R&B Album

Jhené Aiko – Chilombo Chloe X Halle – Ungodly Hour Free Nationals – Free Nationals Robert Glasper – F*** Yo Feelings WINNER: Thundercat – It Is What It Is

Best R&B Song

WINNER: Robert Glasper Featuring H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello – Better Than I Imagine Beyoncé – Black Parade Tiana Major9 & EARTHGANG – Collide Chloe x Halle – Do It Skip Marley & H.E.R. – Slow Down

Best Traditional R&B Performance

The Baylor Project Featuring Jean Baylor & Marcus Baylor – Sit on Down Chloe x Halle – Wonder What She Thinks of Me Mykal Kilgore – Let Me Go WINNER: Ledisi – Anything for You Yebba – Distance

Best Latin Jazz Album

Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra – Tradiciones WINNER: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra – Four Questions Chico Pinhero – City of Dreams Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aimée Nuviola – Viento y Tiempo – Live at Blue Note Tokyo Poncho Sanchez – Trane’s Delight

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Gregg August – Dialogues on Race John Beasley – Monk’estra Plays John Beasley Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band – The Intangible Between John Hollenbeck with Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace, and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Songs You Like a Lot WINNER: Maria Schneider Orchestra – Data Lords

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Ambrose Akinmusire – On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science – Waiting Game Gerald Clayton – Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard WINNER: Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – Trilogy 2 Redman Mehldau McBride Blade – Roundagain

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Thana Alexa – Ona WINNER: Kurt Elling featuring Danilo Pérez – Secrets Are the Best Stories Carmen Lundy – Modern Ancestors Somi with Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Holy Room: Live at the Alte Oper Kenny Washington – What’s the Hurry

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Guinivere Pachamama – Regina Carter Gerald Clayton – Celia WINNER: Chick Corea – All Blues Joshua Redman – Moe Honk

Best Alternative Music Album

WINNER: Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters Beck – Hyperspace Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher Brittany Howard – Jaime Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

Best Musical Theater Album

Amélie American Utopia on Broadway WINNER: Jagged Little Pill Little Shop of Horrors The Prince of Egypt Soft Power

Best Comedy Album

WINNER: Tiffany Haddish – Black Mitzvah Patton Oswalt – I Love Everything Jim Gaffigan – The Pale Tourist Bill Burr – Paper Tiger Jerry Seinfeld – 23 Hours to Kill

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)

Flea – Acid For The Children: A Memoir Ken Jennings – Alex Trebek – The Answer Is… WINNER: Rachel Maddow – Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth Ronan Farrow – Catch And Kill Meryl Streep (& Full Cast) – Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)

Best Children’s Music Album

WINNER: Joanie Leeds – All the Ladies Justin Roberts – Wild Life

Best Global Music Album

Antibalas – FU Chronicles WINNER: Burna Boy – Twice As Tall Bebel Gilberto – Agora Anoushka Shankar – Love Letters Tinariwen – Amadjar

Best Reggae Album

Buju Banton – Upside Down 2020 Skip Marley – Higher Place Maxi Priest – It All Comes Back to Love WINNER: Toots & the Maytals – Got to Be Tough The Wailers – One World

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Black Lodge Singers – My Relatives “Nikso Kowaiks” Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours – Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours Nā Wai Ehā – Lovely Sunrise WINNER: New Orleans Nightcrawlers – Atmosphere Sweet Cecilia – A Tribute to Al Berard

Best Folk Album

Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman Leonard Cohen – Thanks for the Dance Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return WINNER: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – All the Good Times

Best Contemporary Blues Album

WINNER: Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? Ruthie Foster Big Band – Live At the Paramount G. Love – The Juice Bettye LaVette – Blackbirds North Mississippi Allstars – Up And Rolling

Best Traditional Blues Album

Frank Bey – All My Dues Are Paid Don Bryant – You Make Me Feel Robert Cray Band – That’s What I Heard Jimmy “Duck” Holmes – Cypress Grove WINNER: Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw

Best Bluegrass Album

Danny Barnes – Man on Fire Thomm Jutz – To Live in Two Worlds Vol. 1 Steep Canyon Rangers – North Carolina Songbook WINNER: Billy Strings – Home Various Artists – The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project , Vol. 1

Best Americana Album

Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers Hiss Golden Messenger – Terms of Surrender WINNER: Sarah Jarosz – World on the Ground Marcus King – El Dorado Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels

Best American Roots Song

The Secret Sisters – Cabin Sierra Hull – Ceiling to the Floor Sarah Jarosz – Hometown WINNER: John Prine – I Remember Everything Lucinda Williams – Man Without a Soul

Best American Roots Performance

Black Pumas – Colors Bonny Light Horseman – Deep in Love Brittany Howard – Short and Sweet Norah Jones & Mavis Staples – I’ll Be Gone WINNER: John Prine – I Remember Everything

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Taylor Swift – Beautiful Ghosts Brandi Carlile – Carried Me With You Idina Menzel & Aurora – Into the Unknown WINNER: Billie Eilish – No Time to Die Cynthia Ervio – Stand Up

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Max Richter – Ad Astra Kamasi Washington – Becoming WINNER: Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker Thomas Newman – 1917 John Williams – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Bill & Ted Face the Music Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga Frozen 2 WINNER: Jojo Rabbit

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Thomas Adès – Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Richard Danielpour – Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua Carlisle Floyd – Floyd, C.: Prince of Players Ted Hearne – Hearne, T.: Place WINNER: Christopher Rouse – Rouse: Symphony No. 5

Best Classical Compendium

Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn – Adès Conducts Adès Clément Mao-Takacs – Saariaho: Graal Théâtre; Circle Map; Nieges; Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin José Serebrier – Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments and Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto WINNER: Isabel Leonard – Thomas, M.T.: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke Matt Haimovitz – Woolf, L.P.: Fire and Flood

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Stephen Powell – American Composers at Play – William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto Nicholas Phan – Clairières – Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger Cecilia Bartoli – Farinelli Brian Giebler – A Lad’s Love WINNER: Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton – Smyth: The Prison

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Kirill Gerstein – Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Igor Levit – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Augustin Hadelich – Bohemian Tales Daniil Trifonov – Destination Rachmaninov – Arrival WINNER: Richard O’Neill – Theofanidis: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

WINNER: Pacifica Quartet – Contemporary Voices Brooklyn Rider – Healing Modes Ted hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra: Hearne, T: Place Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion – Hynes: Fields Dover Quartet – The Schumann Quartets

Best Choral Performance

The Crossing – Carthage WINNER: James K. Bass, J’Nai Bridges, Timothy Fallon, Kenneth Overton, Hila Plitmann & Matthew Worth; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & UCLA Chamber Singers – Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua Joseph Charles Beutel & Anna Dennis; Orchestra Of St. Luke’s; Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Kansas City Chorale & The Saint Tikhon Choir – Kastalsky: Requiem Joshua Blue, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Dashon Burton, Malcolm J. Merriweather & Laquita Mitchell; Oratorio Society Of New York Orchestra; Oratorio Society Of New York Chorus – Moravec: Sanctuary Road Sarah Walker; Skylark Vocal Ensemble – Once Upon a Time

Best Opera Recording

Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus – Dello Joio: The Trial at Rouen Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Florentine Opera Chorus – Floyd, C.: Prince of Players WINNER: The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus – Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Il Pomo D’Oro – Handel: Agrippina Orchestra Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chorus Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin – Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg

Best Orchestral Performance

Oregon Symphony – Aspects of America – Pulitzer Edition Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Concurrence San Francisco Symphony – Copland: Symphony No. 3 WINNER: Los Angeles Philharmonic – Ives: Complete Symphonies Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Lutosławski: Symphonys Nos. 2 & 3

Best Tropical Latin Album

José Alberto “El Ruiseñor” – Mi Tumbao Edwin Bonilla – Infinito Jorge Celedon & Sergio Luis – Sigo Cantado al Amor (Deluxe) WINNER: Grupo Niche – 40 Victor Manuelle – Memorias de Navidad

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Alejandro Fernández – Hecho en México Lupita Infante – La Serenata WINNER: Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por México, Vol. 1 Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez – Bailando Sones Huapangos con Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez Christian Nodal – Ayayay!

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

Bajofondo – Aura Cami – Monstruo Culturo Profética – Sobrevolando WINNER: Rito Paez – La Conquesta del Espacio Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia

Producer of the Year, Classical

Blanton Asplaugh WINNER: David Frost Jesse Lewis Dmitriy Lipay Elaine Martone

Best Engineered Album, Classical

JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus – Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus – Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion – Hynes: Field Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic – Ives: Complete Symphonies WINNER: Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar”

Best Remixed Recording

Phil Good – Do You Ever (Rac Mix) Deadmau5 – Imaginary Friends (Morgan Page Remix) Jasper Street Co. – Praying for You (Louie Vega Main Mix) WINNER: Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix) Bazzi – Young & Alive (Bazzi vs. Haywyre Remix)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Devon Gifillian – Black Hole Rainbow Katie Pruitt – Expectations WINNER: Beck – Hyperspace Brittany Howard – Jaime Sierra Hull – 25 Trips

Best Historical Album

Unique Quartette – Celebrated, 1985-1896 Nat King Cole – Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early years (1936-1943) WINNER: Mister Rogers – It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers Prince – 1999 Super Deluxe Edition Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark – Souvenir Bela Fleck – Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions

Best Album Notes

Various Artists – At the Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines from the Studio 1894-1926 Various Artists – The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital of the West, 1940-1974 WINNER: The Replacements – Dead Man’s Pop Various Artists – The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us from Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business Nat Shusloff – Out of a Clear Blue Sky

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie (Collector’s Edition) Grateful Dead – Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Depeche Mode – Mode WINNER: Wilco – Ode to Joy Various Artists – The Story of Ghostly International

Best Recording Package

Coldplay – Everyday Life Lil Wayne – Funeral Grouplove – Healer Caspian – On Circles WINNER: Desert Sessions – Vols. 11 & 12

Best Roots Gospel Album

Mark Bishop – Beautiful Day The Crabb Family – 20/20 The Erwins – What Christmas Really Means WINNER: Fisk Jubilee Singers – Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) Ernie Haase & Signature Sound – Something Beautiful

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Cody Carnes – Run to the Father Hillsong Young & Free – All of My Best Friends We The Kingdom – Holy Water Tauren Wells – Citizen of Heaven WINNER: Kanye West – Jesus Is King

Best Gospel Album

Antony Brown & group therAPy – 2ECOND WIND: READY Myron Butler – My Tribute Ricky Dillard – Choirmaster WINNER: PJ Morton – Gospel According to PJ Kierra Sheard – Kierra

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship – The Blessing (Live) Lecrae Featuring Kirk Franklin – Sunday Morning We The Kingdom – Holy Water Tauren Wells Featuring Jenn Johnson – Famous For (I Believe) WINNER: Zach Williams & Dolly Parton – There Was Jesus

Best Gospel Performance/Song

Melvin Crispell III – Wonderful Is Your Name Ricky Dillard Featuring Tiff Joy – Release (Live) Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins Presents: The Good News – Come Together Travis Greene – Won’t Let Go WINNER: Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music – Movin’ On

Best New Age Album

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, and Jesse Paris Smith – Songs from the Bardo Priya Darshini – Periphery Superposition – Form//Less WINNER: Jim “Kimo” West – More Guitar Stories Cory Wong & Jon Batiste – Meditations

Best Music Film

Beastie Boys – Beastie Boys Story Beyoncé – Black Is King Freestyle Love Supreme – We Are Freestyle Love Supreme WINNER: Linda Ronstadt – Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice ZZ Top – That Little Ol’ Band From Texas

Best Music Video

WINNER: Beyoncé – Brown Skin Girl Future Featuring Drake – Life Is Good Anderson .Paak – Lockdown Harry Styles – Adore You Woodkid – Goliath

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

John Beasley & Maria Mendes – Asas Fechadas WINNER: Jacob Collier – He Won’t Hold You Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnkaye Kencridk & Amanda Taylor – Desert Song Alan Broadbent & Pat Metheny – From This Place Talia Billig, Nic Hard & Becca Stevens – Slow Burn

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Hildur Guðnadóttir – Bathroom Dance WINNER: John Beasley – Donna Lee Remyle Boef- Honeymooners Alvin Chea & Jarrett Johnson – Lift Every Voice and Sing Jeremy Levy – Uranus: The Magician

Best Instrumental Composition

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra – Baby Jack Christian Sands – Be Water II Alexandre Desplat – Plumfield WINNER: Maria Schneider – Sputnik

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah – Axiom Jon Batiste – Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard Black Violin – Take the Stairs Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin & Bill Frisell – Americana WINNER: Snarky Puppy – Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Best Dance/Electronic Album

Arca – Kick I Baauer – Planet’s Mad Disclosure – Energy WINNER: Kaytranada – Bubba Madeon – Good Faith

Best Dance Recording

Diplo & SIDEPIECE – On My Mind Disclosure Featuring Aminé & Slowthai – My High Flume Featuring Toro y Moi – The Difference Jayda G – Both of Us WINNER: Kaytranada Featuring Kali Uchis – 10%

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