So, anyway. I didn't technically close up shop here until June. I had already listened to so many records by then. It would be a shame not to drop (at least) one more year end list. The funny thing is that I have listened to more records this year than I have in recent years. All told, I ended up listening to around 125 new releases this year. I kept pretty detailed notes about most of them. I could have easily turned that into reviews or content. I would have stopped listening to new records had I done that though. Turning my enjoyment of music into a thing was a mistake. Anyway. Here is the list. It's 40 records. A good amount of these are jazz. Just be aware. If you're looking for dope punk rock records, this probably won't be the list for you.
In alphabetical(ish) order:
Alice Sandahl - "Bright & Blue"
Alison Shearer - "View From Above"
Alvvays - "Blue Rev"
Angel Olsen - "Big Time"
Anthony Coleman & Brian Chase - "Arcades"
Barrie - "Barbara"
The Beths - "Expert In A Dying Field"
The Bogie Band & Joe Russo - "The Prophets In The City"
Camilla George - "Ibio-Ibio"
Chicago Soul Jazz Collective - "On The Way To Be Free"
Dave Gisler Trio - "See You Out There"
David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 - "Plague Doctor"
Georgia Harmer - "Stay In Touch
High Alpine Hut Network - "727 / 16 EP"
Jeanines - "Don’t Wait For A Sign"
Jobber - "Hell In A Cell EP"
Julieta Eugenio - "Jump"
Kate Bollinger - "Look At It In The Light"
Kit Downes, Petter Eldh, James Maddren - "Vermillion"
Kristine Leschper - "The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door"
Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, & Anna Lund - "Space"
Little Low - "Reasons To Grow"
Lupe Fiasco - "Drill Music In Zion"
Marta Sanchez - "SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum)"
Mary Halvorson - "Amaryllis" / "Belladonna"
Melissa Aldana - "12 Stars"
Nectar - "No Shadow"
The New York Second - "Music At Night"
ORD - "Hemligheter På Vägen"
Otoboke Beaver - "Super Champon"
Perennial - "In The Midnight Hours"
Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung - "Gaya"
Quelle Chris - "Deathfame"
R.A.P. Ferreira - "5 To The Eye With Stars"
Renata Zeiguer - "Picnic In The Dark"
Tender Slit - "Tender Slit"
Tomberlin - "I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This..."
Walking Cliché Sextet - "Micro-Nap"
Westbound Train - "Dedication"
Widowspeak - "The Jacket"
I've included that Spotify playlist. It has stuff from most of these records, and some other stuff. Maybe I'll throw something up in 2023? Who knows. It's what it's
“Brooklyn-based saxophonist Alison Shearer’s debut album recounts the grieving process over the loss of her father and makes a strong statement about the restorative power of music. With a mix of jagged rhythms, kaleidoscopic textures and soaring, lyrical melodies, it’s light and airy yet firmly groovy.”
After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!
A note before they are introduced! If you would like to support any of them send in an ask or make propaganda, any propaganda you make and post yourself should have me tagged! As well using the tags #favevabracket or #favevabracket2023!
And a quick reminder about the two rules that will be staying active!
No harrassment, hate, or vitriol will be tolerated. We are here to celebrate the work of voice actors not tear each other down
This is all for fun! Do not take it super seriously!
I hear the fucking amazing Alison Shearer Quartet last night and it felt so good to hear fantastic music by incredible people. The kind of jazz that made me fall in love with jazz again.
Alicia Walter - IAmAliciaTV - “the expanded curatorial experience of Alicia Walter's 2021 Debut Album 'I Am Alicia'. Join IAmAliciaTV on a tour to the journey of the center of the self” - getting Will Powers vibes from this, crossed with… show tunes?
Just the songs:
I Am Alicia by Alicia Walter
Alicia Walter: Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Keyboards, Drum Programming, Synthesizer Bass, Drums, Celesta, Tack Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Optigan, Marimba, Bells, Percussion
Devin Greenwood: Hammond Organ, Electric Bass, Drums, Synthesizers, Keyboards, Electric Guitar, Drum Programming, Percussion
Amanda Bailey: Viola on "Standing At Your Doorstep"
Nora Barton: Cello on "Standing At Your Doorstep"
Tyler Burchfield: Bari Sax, Tenor Sax on "Suit Yourself"
Joe Exley: Tuba on "House of Yes"
Myra Hinrichs: Violin on "Standing At Your Doorstep"
Lucy Hollier: Trombone on "House of Yes"
Katie Klocke: Violin on "Standing At Your Doorstep"
Chris Krasnow: Drums on "Standing At Your Doorstep"
Eva Lawitts: Upright Bass on "Who Am I"
Dennis Lichtman: Clarinet on "A Toast"
Nicole Glover: Tenor Sax on "Who Am I"
Chloe Rowlands: Trumpet on "Who Am I"
Kai Sandoval: Trumpet on "House of Yes"
Leonardo Sandoval: Tap Dancing on "A Toast"
Tobias Schmid: Drums on "Who Am I"
Alison Shearer: Alto Sax on "Who Am I"
Kristina Teuschler: Clarinet on "Prelude"
July 3: I was so nervous when I woke up today. It felt like the first day of school, which I guess for me it kind of was. They asked me to arrive at 9:30, and when I did, they had already been working for a while. They had to get up extra early to bring in some sheep because it was raining and you can't sheer when the wool is damp. The farmer, Brian, had me come inside and help them bring out the tea and coffee for the shearers, and we stood and had drinks in the barn while everyone had a break. They suggested I change into a jacket that I wouldn't mind ruining because when you get up close and personal with sheep, your skin and clothes get covered in lanolin. It's the strangest feeling on your skin — almost like a mixture between grease and wax. They taught me how to wrap the wool and pack it into the large transport bags, and that's what I did for most of the day. There were three shearers (the farmer's son Tom, and Ben and James), one farmer (Dick) helping to keep moving the sheep into the right pens, and a few of us (Brian and his wife, Alison, and me) wrapping wool. The shearing is a seriously physical job...they work hard. They played loud classic rock to keep the spirits up. They stopped for a tea break mid-morning, did a few more hours of work, had a rest and food at lunchtime (one man, Dave, took a nap in the barn on some wool), worked a few more hours, and had another tea break in the afternoon before finishing up for the day. We had a feast of sandwiches, pizza, pork pies, and cakes for lunch. It was amazing! The local farmers help each other out with shearing, trading labor, and it seems to be a nice social event as well since farming can be a pretty isolating job at times.
I'd heard that sheep farmers can't make much money off of wool anymore, but it's really incredibly bad. For example, with this breed of sheep the farmers only get about $0.45 per bundle, and professional sheep shearers can charge at least $1.00 to shear one sheep. Synthetics have taken over the world in such a short amount of time. We don't know how to appreciate what nature hands right to us and it's heartbreaking. They only really bother shearing now because they have to do it to keep the flock healthy. Some farmers don't even bother packing/selling the wool; they might just put it in a pile and use it for cattle bedding.
Towards the end of the day, Brian took me around his property in the ATV to see his cow pastures. The countryside is just so unbelievably beautiful. I'm sure if you live here you get used to it, but it's hard to imagine not waking up and being in awe of it all every day. I wish all farm animals could live as good of lives as these. Tomorrow there will be a gather to bring in more sheep off of the common land, and I've been invited to help with that. I'm told it will be cold! Drove home down the tiny country lanes, and felt a huge amount of relief that I've landed at a farm with some of the kindest people I've met who are open to teaching me things.
As part of another ongoing partnership we have with Verizon, at the tail end of 2020, Tendril created a series of spots that celebrated the availability of 5G network across the US. They partnered up with the likes of Red Bull, Snapchat and Alltrails to extoll the value of unlimited connectivity. They asked us to create a cohesive set of assets for the campaign without sacrificing the tonality of each brand.
Client: Verizon
Production Company: Tendril
Sound: Cypher
Creative Directors: Matthias Winckleman, Leo Mateus
Director: Leo Mateus
Executive Producer: Ivelle Jargalyn
Producer: Julie Neff
Coordinators: Niko Hook + Jelena Sibalija
Red Bull
Lead: Peiter Hergert
Design: Eric Macedo + Leonardo Bortolussi
3D Animation: James Brocklebank, Flavio Diniz, Nikita Iziev
Type Animation: Jordan Scott, Peiter Hergert
Technical Artist: Flavio Diniz
Lighting + Render: Brad Husband, Joey Recoskie
Compositing: Alexandre Veaux, Corey Larson
Snapchat
Lead: Leo Mateus
Design: Eric Macedo, Leonardo Bortolussi
3D Animation: Will Sharkey, Tyrel Scott, Eric Macedo
Type Animation: Leo Mateus + Maks Fede
Technical Artist: Tyrel Scott
Lighting + Render: Brad Husband, Joey Recoskie
Compositing : Alexandre Veaux, Corey Larson
All Trails
Lead: Facu Labo
Design: Daniel Lepik, Eric Macedo, Jeff Briant
3D Animation: Facu Labo, Daniel Lepik, Flavio Diniz
Type Animation: Maks Fede + Facu Labo
Lighting + Render: Joey Recoskie , Brad Husband
Compositing : Alexandre Veaux , Corey Larson
Offline
Edit: Outsider Editorial
Producer: Kayan Choi
Executive Producer: Denise Shearer
Editors: Alison Gordon, Michael Barker, John Gallagher
Assistant Editors: Lia Han, Bryan Reuben
Even when her contributions have been acknowledged, there has been a tendency to treat Nicolodi as a muse or origin story rather than taking her seriously as a screenwriter or simply to acknowledge her (...) Nicolodi’s screenwriting work is perhaps exemplary of the place of women’s creative labor in horror. The scale of her input into the Three Mothers trilogy has been minimized in production: a fight for credit on Suspiria, denial of screenwriting credit on Inferno, her script for Mother of Tears (2007) abandoned entirely. She has been further marginalized in reception/scholarship overwhelmingly attached to an auteurist paradigm. (...) Scholarship on women’s cinema has also tended to neglect the authorship of women not working as directors. Judith Mayne, for example, explicitly states that women’s cinema refers to film made by women directors “as opposed to, say, screenwriters or actresses.”
— Martha Shearer, "The Secret Beyond the Door: Daria Nicolodi and Suspiria’s Multiple Authorship" in Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse (ed.), 2020.
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, edited by Alison Peirse, Rutgers University Press, 2020. Info: rutgersuniversitypress.org.
“But women were never out there making horror films, that’s why they are not written about – you can’t include what doesn’t exist.”
“There are really, very few women horror filmmakers working today, that’s why so few are coming up.”
“Women are just not that interested in making horror films.”
“How can you be a woman and be a fan of horror?”
This is what you get when you are a woman working in horror, whether as a writer, academic, festival programmer or filmmaker. These assumptions are based on decades of flawed scholarly, critical and industrial thinking about the genre. Women Make Horror sets right these misconceptions. Women have always been making horror, they have always been an audience for the genre, and today, as this book reveals, women academics, critics and filmmakers alike remain committed to a film genre that offers almost unlimited opportunities for exploring and deconstructing social and cultural constructions of gender, femininity, sexuality and the body. Women Make Horror is the first book-length study of women filmmakers in horror film, the first all-women edited book on horror film, and the first book to call out the male-bias in written histories of horror and then to illuminate precisely how, and where, these histories are lacking. It re-evaluates existing literature on the history of horror film, on women practitioners in the film industry and approaches to undertaking film industries research. It establishes new approaches for studying women practitioners and illuminates their unexamined contribution to the formation and evolution of the horror genre. The book focuses on women directors and screenwriters but also acknowledges the importance of women producers, editors and cinematographers. It explores narrative and experimental cinema, short, anthology and feature-filmmaking, and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian and Australian filmmakers, films and festivals. Women Make Horror is designed to not only engage and inspire dialogue between the academy, filmmakers, industry gatekeepers, festival programmers and horror film fans. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
1. Women Make (Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit and Analyze) Horror – Alison Peirse
2. Stephanie Rothman and Vampiric Film Histories – Alicia Kozma
3. Inside Karen Arthur’s The Mafu Cage – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
4. The Secret Beyond the Door: Daria Nicolodi and Suspiria’s Multiple Authorship – Martha Shearer
5. Personal Trauma Cinema and the Experimental Videos of Cecelia Condit and Ellen Cantor – Katia Houde
6. Self-Reflexivity and Feminist Camp in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare – Tosha R. Taylor
7. Why Office Killer Matters – Dahlia Schweitzer
8. Murders and Adaptations: Gender in American Psycho – Laura Mee
9. Gender, Genre and Authorship in Ginger Snaps – Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
10. The Feminist Art-Horror of the New French Extremity – Maddison McGillvray
11. Women-Made Horror in Korean Cinema – Molly Kim
12. The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival and the Australian Female Gothic – Donna McRae
13. Slicing Up the Boys’ Club: The Female-led Horror Anthology Film – Erin Harrington
14. The Transnational Gaze in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Lindsey Decker
15. Gigi Saul Guerrero and her Latin American Female Monsters – Valeria Villegas Lindvall
16. Uncanny Tales: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Évolution – Janice Loreck
17. The (re)Birth of Pregnancy Horror in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge – Amy C. Chambers
18. The Rise of the Female Horror Filmmaker-Fan – Sonia Lupher
Notes on Contributors
Index
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST My favourite tracks from last month
1. Waldo's Gift - Flowerbed
2. Madone - Marine
3. Surprise Chef - The Positive and the Negative
4. Dora Jar - Lagoon
5. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Get Da Steppin'
6. Black Flower - O Fogo
7. Klangstof - Ocean View
8. The Smile - The Smoke
9. Mamas Gun - Party For One
10. Eve Adams - The Dying Light
11. DARGZ - The Duke
12. The Diasonics - Deviants
13. DoomCannon - Amalgamation
14. Tim Carman - Diamond Street
15. Chris Lujan - My Back Hurts (From Picking Up The Pieces Of My Broken Heart)
16. Alison Shearer - Breathe Again
17. Lee Fields - Ordinary Lives
18. The James Hunter Six - If I Only Knew
19. Ben Marc - Mustard
20. Quinn Oulton - Royalty
21. Joey Bada$$ - THE REV3NGE
22. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - La Fachada
23. The King Rooster - Stickin' It
24. Suff Daddy - Sophie's Symphony
25. Lady Wray - Joy & Pain
26. SIPHO. - OCCASION
27. Nrthrd - MONARCH/TELLY
28. Che Noir - Brains For Dinner
29. Skinshape - Soul Groove
30. The Soundcarriers - Traces
31. Melody's Echo Chamber - Looking Backward
32. J.P. Bimeni - Four Walls
33. Sevdaliza - High Alone
34. Scrimshire - The Pile - Acoustic Version
35. Khruangbin - Chocolate Hills
36. The Soul Rebels - Musica
37. St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Minotaur
38. Sillage - Lovely Morning
39. Katie Tupper - Danny
40. Niall Mutter - I Wonder
41. Trish Toledo - Sin Control
42. Acidslop - Forever Is a Dollar
43. Nicholas Craven - Breaking Atoms
44. Estee Nack - VEUVECLICQUOTBRUT
45. Robohands - Ataraxy 23
46. The Dip - When You Lose Someone
47. Cannons - Purple Sun
48. The Velveteins - Make It Through
49. Juto - Riduh
50. CMAT - Lonely
51. Cautious Clay - Rapture in Blue
52. KIRBY - Black Leaves
53. Balqees - Sabra
54. FKA twigs - meta angel
55. The Dining Rooms - Bonjour
56. Rachel Chinouriri - So My Darling - Acoustic
57. Thee Sacred Souls - Trade of Hearts
58. Kinetika Bloco - Remedy
59. Lunatic - Slave Cotton
60. The Musalini - Sincerely (feat. King Draft & Swank)
61. Laurent Bardainne - Oiseau
62. Immanuel Wilkins - Don't Break
63. V.Raeter - Honey
64. Rbsn - 0 RH+
65. Madeline Kenney - I’ll Get Over It
66. 6LACK - By Any Means
67. Wavy Da Ghawd - LOYALTY
68. Estee Nack - STREETSISWATCHING, SOIZGOD
69. Kendra Morris - Penny Pincher
As part of another ongoing partnership we have with Verizon, at the tail end of 2020, Tendril created a series of spots that celebrated the availability of 5G network across the US. They partnered up with the likes of Red Bull, Snapchat and Alltrails to extoll the value of unlimited connectivity. They asked us to create a cohesive set of assets for the campaign without sacrificing the tonality of each brand.
Client: Verizon
Production Company: Tendril
Sound: Cypher
Creative Directors: Matthias Winckleman, Leo Mateus
Director: Leo Mateus
Executive Producer: Ivelle Jargalyn
Producer: Julie Neff
Coordinators: Niko Hook + Jelena Sibalija
Red Bull
Lead: Peiter Hergert
Design: Eric Macedo + Leonardo Bortolussi
3D Animation: James Brocklebank, Flavio Diniz, Nikita Iziev
Type Animation: Jordan Scott, Peiter Hergert
Technical Artist: Flavio Diniz
Lighting + Render: Brad Husband, Joey Recoskie
Compositing: Alexandre Veaux, Corey Larson
Snapchat
Lead: Leo Mateus
Design: Eric Macedo, Leonardo Bortolussi
3D Animation: Will Sharkey, Tyrel Scott, Eric Macedo
Type Animation: Leo Mateus + Maks Fede
Technical Artist: Tyrel Scott
Lighting + Render: Brad Husband, Joey Recoskie
Compositing : Alexandre Veaux, Corey Larson
All Trails
Lead: Facu Labo
Design: Daniel Lepik, Eric Macedo, Jeff Briant
3D Animation: Facu Labo, Daniel Lepik, Flavio Diniz
Type Animation: Maks Fede + Facu Labo
Lighting + Render: Joey Recoskie , Brad Husband
Compositing : Alexandre Veaux , Corey Larson
Offline
Edit: Outsider Editorial
Producer: Kayan Choi
Executive Producer: Denise Shearer
Editors: Alison Gordon, Michael Barker, John Gallagher
Assistant Editors: Lia Han, Bryan Reuben
As part of another ongoing partnership we have with Verizon, at the tail end of 2020, Tendril created a series of spots that celebrated the availability of 5G network across the US. They partnered up with the likes of Red Bull, Snapchat and Alltrails to extoll the value of unlimited connectivity. They asked us to create a cohesive set of assets for the campaign without sacrificing the tonality of each brand.
Client: Verizon
Production Company: Tendril
Sound: Cypher
Creative Directors: Matthias Winckleman, Leo Mateus
Director: Leo Mateus
Executive Producer: Ivelle Jargalyn
Producer: Julie Neff
Coordinators: Niko Hook + Jelena Sibalija
Red Bull
Lead: Peiter Hergert
Design: Eric Macedo + Leonardo Bortolussi
3D Animation: James Brocklebank, Flavio Diniz, Nikita Iziev
Type Animation: Jordan Scott, Peiter Hergert
Technical Artist: Flavio Diniz
Lighting + Render: Brad Husband, Joey Recoskie
Compositing: Alexandre Veaux, Corey Larson
Snapchat
Lead: Leo Mateus
Design: Eric Macedo, Leonardo Bortolussi
3D Animation: Will Sharkey, Tyrel Scott, Eric Macedo
Type Animation: Leo Mateus + Maks Fede
Technical Artist: Tyrel Scott
Lighting + Render: Brad Husband, Joey Recoskie
Compositing : Alexandre Veaux, Corey Larson
All Trails
Lead: Facu Labo
Design: Daniel Lepik, Eric Macedo, Jeff Briant
3D Animation: Facu Labo, Daniel Lepik, Flavio Diniz
Type Animation: Maks Fede + Facu Labo
Lighting + Render: Joey Recoskie , Brad Husband
Compositing : Alexandre Veaux , Corey Larson
Offline
Edit: Outsider Editorial
Producer: Kayan Choi
Executive Producer: Denise Shearer
Editors: Alison Gordon, Michael Barker, John Gallagher
Assistant Editors: Lia Han, Bryan Reuben