#james underwood

[grrlmusic]

Laurel Halo - Atlas

[dustedmagazine]

Laurel Halo — Atlas (Awe)

Photo by Norrel Blair

Like a collection of sketched maps of unseen or barely remembered topographies Atlas composer Laurel Halo charts her reaction to time spent in unfamiliar landscapes and cities. She captures that preternatural oddness of being at once part of and apart from life when one is a stranger in town. Minutely observant and slightly bewildered, Halo’s music captures that fugue state between awareness and dreaming where the senses meld into impressionistic sensation. Based on piano sketches written during 2020 and 2021, Halo added guitar, vibraphone and violin whilst working in Paris, London and Berlin. Saxophonist Bendik Giske, cellist Lucy Ralton, violinist James Underwood and vocalist Coby Sey augment the pieces which Halo electronically manipulates into allusive vignettes of atmosphere and mood.

The pieces on Atlas hardly vary in pace or method but with repeated listens they begin to reveal their secrets. Halo smears her piano with haunted strings and layers of echo and reverb to create dense atmospheres through which peripheral sounds suddenly slide across the foreground like a scrap of conversation in the language of a place from which you’ve just returned home. Giske’s saxophone is buried deep in the opening and closing tracks, a presence just out of reach then heard as if through a door that swings open in a foggy street for the ear to snatch at the notes and anticipate the rest. In an uncanny way, you feel you’re reconstructing a tune from a score written in invisible ink. On the lullaby-like “Belleville” Sey’s voice is a mere emanation amidst a swell of strings, a last gasp protest at bedtime before sleep overwhelms. Throughout, the strings act as emotional markers; pensive on “Naked into the Light”, febrile on “Late Night Drive” and “Sick Eros”, multitracked into orchestral grandeur on the title track.

Atlas doesn’t seek to evoke specific places so much as a sense of internal movement that parallels displacement and travel. On first listen Halo’s compositions tend to merge into one another, a blur of impressions like looking down on a cloud dappled landscape or passing buildings through a rain smeared train window. The atmospheres are foggy, drenched but rich, infused with the apparent illogic of dreams whose significance must be pieced together with hindsight from clues obvious and obscure.

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[pandoraistheloml]

no rizz just pretty eyes and a overwhelming amount of knowledge about fictional characters.

[saturnisaroace]

ALRIGHT! WHO ORDERED THE COMFORT CAST CROSSOVER?

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[sidegly]

Being in the percy jackson fandom AND the marauders fandom is definetly not good for my brain because i have to take a full minute to figure out if somebody is talking about 'half bloods' in a demi god way or in a pureblood type of way

[a-great-tragedy]

Found family is for the ones that never found their family

[soft-likethesunset]

they hated him for his cunty hair and unabashed whimsy.

[c0rl3on1s]

Does anyone have like hc marauders characters in pjo cabins???

[ghost-qwq]

Oh boy I love cowboy yaoi!!

character ref sheets under the cut :P

[jt1674]

[silly-little-gooses]

i saw someone fancast aryan simhadri as james potter and i-

[1think1twasvodk4]

I’m sorry to tell you this but James Potter, Ravi Singh, George Karim and Grover Underwood were variants this whole time. Just silly little guys living the life fr

[ffoodie11]

I'm really interested in seeing, in like 10 years, or after both shows are finished, how the actors felt about it.

Because obviously, a lot of the cast for Percy Jackson and Avatar: The Last Airbender, have said they were huge fans of the show, and while a lot of ppl enjoyed the shows , a majority feel it isn't really that representative of either of the source materials.

I'm especially curious for the main groups; ( Percy, Annabeth, Grover ; Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko + the other kid actors )

Right now they're probably not gonna say as much , but still I wonder for the future, especially since I've seen that a lot of people think the behind the scenes / cast videos fit the characters vibes better

(like Aang + Percy being way more serious in the show)

I wonder if anything will change for Season 2 , and if the directors will take in the feedback , though it is too late to do certain things

[bookaddict24-7]

NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (JUNE 4TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Annie LeBlanc is Not Dead Yet by Molly Morris

Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar

Heiress Takes All by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka

Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee

Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine

One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

The Breakup Artists by Adriana Mather

Take All of Us by Natalie Leif

Louder Than Words by Ashley Woodfolk & Lexi Underwood

Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler (Illustrator)

Markless by C.G. Malburi

Furious by Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos

An Outbreak of Witchcraft by Deborah Noyes & Melissa Duffy (Contributor)

Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson

Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch

Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

Lady of Steel and Straw by Erica Ivy Rodgers

Spilled Ink by Nadia Hashimi

If You Can't Take the Heat by Michael Ruhlman

Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli

London on My Mind by Clara Alves & Nina Perrotta (Translator)

What's Murder Between Friends by Meg Gatland-Veness

NEW SEQUELS:

Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Happy reading!

[phoenixes-and-wizards]

finally got around to watching the percy jackson musical a few days ago because my boyfriend’s little sister played annabeth (she was AMAZING btw) and it made me realize something:

during annabeth’s solo (“my grand plan”), she sings that her grand plan is to be remembered. that it’s literally all she wants, especially since athena seems so determined to forget she even exists (eg. zero contact ever since she made it to camp, literally giving her a hat of INVISIBILITY, etc.).

but now remind me again of the ONE thing percy is certain of when he gets his mind wiped in SON?

that’s right: annabeth.