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[dustedmagazine]

Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral (Island House)

Ligurian Pastoral by Davide Cedolin

Liguria, in Italy, is where the boot might meet the top of the thigh, a mountainous region in which rocky cliffs jut out of the sea and tourists hike from fishing village to fishing village along the Cinque Terre. It’s not exactly unpopulated — the largest city is Genoa — but there are lots of parks and natural areas, and it is there in these wilder places that guitarist Davide Cedolin finds inspiration.

This cassette release collects seven serene and unruffled meditations, mostly in finger picked acoustic guitar, but augmented sometimes with threads of bowed bass, lap steel and harmonica. Natural sounds, like a thunderstorm and bird noises, move in and out of these pieces, which are, themselves, natural and unpretentious. You can imagine the guitarist working them out in some sunny spot, perhaps picking up stakes and running inside when the weather turns and its starts to rain.

“Ca de Cavo” is especially lovely, its eddying cascades of finger picking shot through with bending, shifting tones of lap steel (that’s Mike Horn from Seawind of Battery sitting in). These compositions are not overly concerned with melody or song structure. They unspool in repeated patterns with few signposts indicating beginning, middle or end. They open out into a kind of wide-horizoned dreaminess, an infinity pool of sound that stretches as far as you can see.

Cedolin’s Instagram tells us that he’s been learning from Daniel Bachman, another skilled finger-picker whose compositions stretch to incorporate the living world. He is, at least so far, more tethered to the sound of his instrument; field recordings nest in the crevices of his songs, rather than taking them over. In “Lische Alte,” for instance, the rumble of wind slips between pensive guitar chords, the arc of lap steel (Horn again) tracing a throughline in the lyric jangle.

Ligurian Pastoral exists in its own time and space. It’s in no hurry to get to the end of its placid compositions, nor, after a while, is the listener. But it does take some adjustment, some slowing, some calming, some willingness to sit with this music, to get to its pleasures. Put it on with the sun streaming in and the whole afternoon idling in front of you. It will unfold like a flower.

Jennifer Kelly

[kreuzfahrttester]

EXPLORA JOURNEYS ermöglicht unvergessliche Abenteuer mit dem legendären Forscher MIKE HORN an Bord der EXPLORA I

Explora Journeys, die Luxus-Lifestyle-Marke der MSC-Gruppe, launcht exklusive Exkursionen unter der Leitung des bekannten Entdeckers und Explora Markenbotschafters Mike Horn.  Vom 10. bis 20. November 2024 haben Gäste an Bord der EXPLORA I damit die einmalige Gelegenheit, Mike Horn bei zwei außergewöhnlichen Exkursionen zu begleiten, die die wilde Schönheit der spanischen Inseln Lanzarote und La…

[notaplaceofhonour]

Antisemitism Required Reading

I get a lot of ignorant comments & tags on my posts about antisemitism, and I’ve already spent way too much time & energy engaging with them. So to preserve my sanity, I’ve made the decision not to engage too deeply with any commenters who haven’t at least read all of these in their entirety:

“Jewish Space Lasers” by Mike Rothschild

“People Love Dead Jews” by Dara Horn

“Jews Don’t Count” by David Baddiel

"More Than a Century of Antisemitism", GEC Special Report

If you’re not Jewish, please read all of this literature before adding anything to my posts about antisemitism.

Jews, please add any books you think should be on the list!

[penelopepitstopp]

Taskmaster x The Onion and Reductress - Part I've lost count by now

[panelshowsource]

out of context taskmaster (3/∞)

[iantojonesirl]

taskmaster art!!!!

i love these sketches sm omg i did greg, alex and then my favourite contestants from my top four favourite series!!

[aberamasgolds]

i know its a fairly played out term but he does have the energy of a golden retriever puppy in this

[sombradusk]

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[clowningaroundmars]

i still just... *clenches fist* CANNOT GET OVER how good of friends mike and chuck are like it makes me weep sometimes just remembering it you guys 😭

they're always there to support each other, and always have each other's backs... but most importantly-- they got each other even when they're slipping

chuck was the 1st character ever to question mike's leadership and battle plans in the very 2nd ep. wellll unless you don't count dutch's disapproval of mike's plan in ep 1, but that was more pushback than an actual fullblown argument

mike was acting rashly, not thinking out his plan to use the core's power to defeat kane's hounds, and chuck rightfully bickered with him abt it for like 2 precious minutes while their base was being surrounded

and he succeeded! mike did take the power core, but he didn't end up detonating it in the end even tho he wanted to! bc chuck's words affected him, saving motorcity-- and possibly the entirety of michigan as well

and on the flip side, chuck's insecurities get the best of him most times. this was especially devastating to mike in "fearless", and it all culminated in this big final fight they had where chuck almost killed mike

but they ended up reconciling, bc mike KNEW what was eating away at chuck and confronted him abt it. his words to chuck were "being brave isn't abt not being scared, it's abt waking up everyday and doing what you do anyways despite it"

which is very true! chuck was sick and tired of being the butt of the jokes, the scaredy-cat, the coward. but mike cut thru all that bullshit and in one fell swoop, chuck was removing his booster and he was comfortable facing the kane grunts to deactivate the KMG before it killed all of the cablers.

mike recognized chuck's insecurity and got thru to him with the cold hard truth-- chuck was already brave, even if he was screaming thru the majority of their missions lol

one day i hope to be in a friendship like chuck and mike's, but until then i'm just sitting here admiring them like a goober :')

[charlotte-bopp]

Y is for you've got no chutzpah. ---- In series 11, there was a very chaotic task where the task got lit up in flames before they could even finish reading it so a lot of random and funny things happened. One part if the task was to undermine this vole. Mike Wozniak undermined this vole the vole by saying "you've got no chutzpah, your organisational skills are lackluster, your timekeeping is abysmal" ---- Only 1 day left! What will be z? ---- #taskmaster #taskmasterfanart #atozoftaskmaster #taskmasteralphabet #mikewozniak #mikewozniaktaskmaster #mikewozniakfanart #watercolour #watercolouranddigitalillustration #charlotsart #dailyillustration

[kreuzfahrttester]

Explora Journeys ernennt Abenteurer Mike Horn zum Markenbotschafter

Explora Journeys, die Luxus-Lifestyle-Marke der MSC Group, hat heute bekanntgegeben, dass der bekannte Abenteurer Mike Horn ihr Markenbotschafter wird. Horn ist ein weltbekannter Abenteurer, Entdecker und Umweltschützer, der bereits zahlreiche herausfordernde Expeditionen in einige der abgelegensten Teile der Welt unternommen hat. Er hat die Arktis, die Antarktis und den Amazonas durchquert und…

[cloudberrylane]

Taskmaster's Assistant Training with Mike Wozniak

[thenaturalfriends]

Please enjoy Mike Wozniak committing terrifyingly hard to nodding as quickly as he can at Alex's original Edinburgh Fringe version of Taskmaster.

Footage (sadly very incomplete but still fun to see) here.

[agender-wolfie]

When you get into a fandom but 99% of the fics are fem and are unlabeled or untagged

[taskmastersource]

TASKMASTER 11x08 // Record the greatest aircraft safety announcement then perform the greatest aircraft safety demonstration. Your announcement must be in an accent or language other than your own, and your demonstration must be unforgettable.