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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

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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…

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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!

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out of context taskmaster (3/∞)

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

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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.

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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

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

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January 28 2023

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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.

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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…

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Taskmaster's Assistant Training with Mike Wozniak