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Binker Golding Interview: Youth and the Wild

Photo by Carl Hyde

BY JORDAN MAINZER

“I’m just not that interested in fitting in.”

It’s a statement that certainly rings true for Binker Golding’s second solo album Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy, out Friday via Gearbox Records. Up until this point, you could pinpoint the tenor saxophonist, composer, and one half of excellent duo Binker & Moses as part of an ever-burgeoning British jazz scene, one that has seen the likes of Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia, and Zara McFarlane receive global reach and acclaim. Press play on Dream, however, and you hear an unfamiliar sound, at least for Golding: bluesy slide guitar, then drums, piano, and double bass, all before his saxophone enters. It sounds like the instrumental to a classic rock song, still embedded in a jazz tradition, but threatening to bridge the gap.

Sure, in a few years and probably many albums later, we’ll look back on Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy as Golding’s “heartland jazz Americana” record, one where influences of John Mellencamp and Skip James rubbed elbows with the current cream of the crop of UK jazz heavyweights like drummer Sam Jones, bassist Daniel Casimir, and pianist Sarah Tandy. The genre-hopping is certainly thrilling, on moments like Golding’s saxophone taking a lead vocal against Billy Adamson’s twangy guitar lines on “Love Me Like A Woman”, or the rock harmonies of guitar, piano, and saxophone on album closer “All Out Of Fairy Tales”. But the idea that Golding isn’t concerned with fitting in is especially illuminating when listening to the album, which was born out an intense period of self-reflection for Golding. He had lost both his biological father and stepfather. He was looking at the characteristics he had inherited from his dad, good and bad. He was looking at himself as a man. If jazz as a genre is one inherently collaborative and outward-looking and listening, Golding’s second album--though displaying mighty band chemistry--is a bit of a thematic outlier. It’s instrumental, but you can hear the way it communicates the contrasts between the expanse of the music and middle American landscapes and the inner depth of Golding’s thoughts. 

I asked Golding some questions about Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy over email, including its influences, communicating lyrical themes instrumentally, and playing live. Read our conversation below.

Since I Left You: Why did you decide on a blues, heartland rock, Americana-influenced aesthetic for your second album?

Binker Golding: The music is just another part of who I am. It’s an honest reflection of how I felt at the time. I think people often think that you’re hopping genres or being influenced by something new that you’ve come across, but it just wasn’t the case for this record. The music was right there on the surface for me. I’ve always felt deeply attached to those styles, and over the course of my life, I’ve become them. I suppose it surprises people, given the current climate of British jazz, but I’m just not that interested in fitting in.

SILY: The first single and opening track "(Take Me To The) Wide Open Lows" opens with bluesy slide guitar riffing. Was it important for you to open with a specific sound so different from what you had presented before?

BG: Yes, I’d say so. It’s usually a good idea to make a big statement on the first track of a record, to draw the listener in and let them know what sort of world the album inhabits. In a way, the first track is an overture for the rest of the album. I felt “Wide Open Lows” was probably the most representative of the sound of the album, so it made it as the first track. I don’t think it would’ve worked anywhere else on the record. I wanted the guitar solo that opens the track to be unusually long. I wanted a sprawling track that was evocative of the sort of landscapes I was thinking of. I’m also against the contemporary idea that a piece of music has to get straight to the central part as quickly as possible. Intros are currently at their most short in the history of popular music. I think this is a travesty.  

SILY: Like you've said, it's hard to explicitly explore concepts like masculinity, humanity, love, and sex on an instrumental album. At times, however, I feel like certain instruments--whether your saxophone or electric guitar or even drums--take the lead the way a vocal would. Did you notice that? Was that intentional?

BG: There was definitely a lyrical intention to the way I wrote the melodies and to the way I directed the band, in particular the soloists, Billy Adamson on guitar and Sarah Tandy on piano. The solos the three of us played were as free as ever, but we were deliberately trying to play the songs in a lyrical fashion. For most of the songs, I wanted people to hear them and say, “There should be words to this,” or, “I can hear lyrics to this.” I wanted to invite the listener into making up their own lyrics to the songs.

SILY: What's the inspiration behind the title "My Two Dads"?

BG: Literally, my biological father and my stepfather, both of whom died in 2020. I wasn’t looking to pay tribute to them in any way, and I don’t like to think of it as a tribute as such. I often write pieces and get halfway through and start to think to myself, “This is about this person,” or, “This is about this time,” etc. The piece is less about the memory of them and more about the feeling of the loss of them. I realized I had no more male father figures in my life, and there was a profundity to that. I also had three friends who were going through the exact same thing at the exact same time. All of them were males, and the loss of our fathers were a big talking point for us.

SILY: Were you at all inspired by British folk and folk-rock on this record?

BG: Not so much British folk, but certainly American and Canadian folk-rock. Mainly Neil Young, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, [and] Tracy Chapman, and then hugely by heartland rock musicians, mainly Springsteen and John Mellencamp. I listen to a lot of old American folk music also. The Delta Blues artists like Skip James and Mississippi Fred McDowell are very important to me. I listen to a lot of the traditional Appalachian music also.

SILY: What's the inspiration behind the album title?

BG: Dogwood is a tiny town in Kentucky. It’s very remote. It’s somewhere I imagined I’d like to go to and just be alone, have no worries or cares, at least for a short time. Youth and the wild go hand in hand with that idea. I like instructional titles. If they’re good, they help the listener get into the music. I take great consideration over them.

SILY: What's the story behind the album art?

BG: The album is another portrait of me in one way or another. My first album was, too, but this one was a bit more complex. The cover is very loosely based on the painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. The important thing about the painting and cover of the album is the fact that the face is hidden, and as a result, you can’t tell what expression the subject has on. I wanted it to be ambiguous. The back cover is just a shot of my hands. The inside has pictures of my face, but the expression is completely blank, which is deliberate. I wanted the listener to decide what mood the album is based in, in a similar fashion to the Mona Lisa. The wanderer above the sea fog is slightly triumphant in the sense that it symbolizes the conquest of nature. Something has been won. I wanted the cover to be the opposite. I’m not on a mountain top. The ground is completely flat, and there’s no crop left. Instead, there are weeds growing where the crop once was. I didn’t want it to be negative, just subtle and ambiguous.

SILY: Are you playing this record live? If so, how are you adapting it to a performance?

BG: Yes, we’ve been playing it very faithfully live. It’s not too hard to adapt, minus some of the guitar parts. We play the songs in the exact order that they appear on the record. I don’t really think they work any other way. We also don’t play any of the songs from the previous album, as I don’t think they blend very well, except for “You, That Place, That Time”.

SILY: What's next for you?

BG: I’m currently writing a follow up to this album. When one’s done, I just start another one. I’ve not found a better way to live my life. I’m happy living like that.

SILY: Anything you've been listening to, watching, or reading lately that's inspired you?

BG: I seldom draw inspiration from external sources, which people often find odd to hear. I read regularly and watch films often, but as I say, they don’t often feed back into my work except for in a technical aspect. I suppose people that tell stories about people are ultimately the thing that’s inspired me most in the last 5 or so years. For example, the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: I’d like to one day make an album that serves the same purpose as one of his films. I’m interested in telling stories about people through music.

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Chris Connor: A Jazz Odyssey in Vocal Harmony

Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of jazz, certain albums stand as milestones, shaping the course of the genre. One such gem is “Chris Connor,” an eponymous album by the iconic jazz singer. Released in 1956 under the Atlantic label, it marked Atlantic Records’ foray into the realm of jazz vocal LPs, creating ripples that would resonate through the years. Unveiling the Sonic…

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to André 3000, Billy Adamson (The Searchers), Paul Bettany, Cilla Black, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jimmy Castor Bunch’s 1972 “Troglodyte” single, Özgür Çevik, John Cheever, Harlan Ellison, Mal Evans, Joseph Fiennes, Neil Finn, The Golden Gate Bridge (1937), Lou Gossett, Jr., Dasheille Hammett, Wild Bill Hickok, Tony Hillerman, Hubert Humphrey, Sean Kinney, Peter Knight (Steeleye Span), Christopher Lee, Ramsey Lewis, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Paul McCartney & Wings 1975 VENUS & MARS LP, Lee Meriweather, Thea Musgrave, music influencer Mondo Quinn, Vincent Price, Pete Sears, The Sex Pistols 1977 “God Save the Queen” single, Bud Shank, Siouxsie Sioux, Barry Vissell, my Most Excellent son-in-law Brian Walton, Blind Tom Wiggins, Don Williams, Herman Wouk, Chester Zardis, and renowned guitarist, singer-songwriter, spiritual apologist, human rights activist, and environmentalist Bruce Cockburn. He’s been at it a long time, with many awards and kudos to his name, but his music speaks louder than all of that—truly a man on a mission from God. His records have been in my life for many years, presenting me with intelligent spirituality and lyrical beauty that connects with the natural and the urban. Here’s a recent interview with Bruce to sum up his latest recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-nCfOUp6cU ...Meanwhile, HB BC—thank you for your volumes of music and service.

#brucecockburn #Canada #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoLighthouse #christian #singersongwriter #activist

[oh-heartlessman]

A TLDR on what Anya's Closed Characters Are Up To in 2038

cw: illness

NAME: Jane Porter AGE: 46 FC: Still Felicity Jones

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Back in London, going through her first round of treatment for Huntington’s. :) Taking temporary leave from the RAS. Her husband Milo is by her side. 

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NAME: Eva Grimhelde AGE: Immortal (idk something like 500?) FC: Still Krysten Ritter 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Publishes a series of best-selling dark romance sapphic erotica called Her Poisonous Kiss (other books are: Her Venomous Touch, Her Deadly Embrace, Her Painful Release — the fifth book, Her Torturous Denial is out in two weeks) under the pen name E. H. Grim 

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NAME: Roger Radcliffe AGE: 46 FC: Still Sam Claflin 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Raising his two kids (William (19) and Anne (17))  alongside his wife Anita! And also his best mate Paul! And Perdita! And their giant brood of children. He works as a middle school music teacher and they all live on a big former farm, that Perdita pays for because she’s the one in finance making money for them. 

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NAME: Daisy Canard

FC: Imogen Poots → Billie Piper AGE: 43

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Senior correspondent at Vogue UK. Married to Amelia Smollet. Raising two kids, Reginald (15) and Audrey (13).  

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NAME: Callie Harper

FC: Zendaya —> Andy Allo Age: 40 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Owns a queer bookstore in Gainesville, Florida. Regularly volunteers at the soup kitchen and other community-oriented projects. Married to Kiara!! They have FIVE kids — two biological (Callie carried Kiara’s egg; Kiara carried Callie’s egg); three adopted; they take in foster kids and give them a steady place and hope for a family reunion, but if not they treat them like their own 

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NAME: Jake Long

FC: Peter Adrian → Daniel Henney Age: 38 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Still the American Dragon!!! Day job is working at a nonprofit dedicated to helping Magicks. L Living in NYC with his wife Deb, who is an art teacher and their kids Dylan (10) and Luke (7)

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NAME: Rob Triton FC: Still Max Minghella AGE: 48 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Responsible for a huge data breach that incriminated half of the United States senate… though no one knows this. Shows up occasionally for Triton family events with Andy, with whom he has an on and off again marriage/partnership. 

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NAME: Lymantria Khan FC: Still Franciska Farkas AGE: 42 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Still in Swynlake! She and Meg have moved to the farmlands for a bigger cottage. They have a lot of cats, descendants of the original Ash. They also have three kids (two biological, one adopted)

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NAME: Barrel Adamson 

FC: Charlie Plummer → Chad Michael Murray  AGE: 35

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

A zookeeper in Omaha, Nebraska at the Omaha Zoo! He got married two years ago and his wife is expecting their first child soon :) 

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AND NOW, If you made it this far...

CW: DEATH

NAME: Bradley Uppercrust III 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? In 2025, after a stint in jail, Bradley decided to sign up for one of Elon Musk’s Space X flights — it exploded upon launch.

[heeeyooon]

May

it's June already? what the heck....

Eiko Ishibashi/Evil Does Not Exist:

Early May, Buzz and I traveled to the Big Apple to see Eiko Ishibashi perform the Drive My Car soundtrack live. It was so special to hear some of the songs in person. Eiko's live arrangements were really beautiful and inspiring. After the show, I was able to meet Eiko and get my Evil Does Not Exist LP signed by her lol A few days after we saw her perform, we saw Evil Does Not Exist on the Big Screen! My first Hamaguchi film at the theaters and it did not disappoint. Buzz and I really enjoyed the movie and had fun discussing the ending over dinner at Sky Cafe. Movies:

In the order I saw them, oldest to newest Anyone But You - Will Gluck Call Me By Your Name (♥) - Luca Guadagnino I Wish (♥) - Hirokazu Kore-Eda The House of Us (♥) - Yoon Ga Eun Greeting in the Afternoon - Iwa Atonement (♥) - Joe Wright A Dangerous Mind - David Cronenberg Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring - Kim Ki Duk Mission: Impossible - Brian De Palma Desperately Seeking Susan (♥) - Susan Seidelman The Hours (♥) - Stephen Daldry Witness (♥) - Peter Weir Secret in Their Eyes - Billy Ray Evil Does Not Exist (♥) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi To Die For (♥) - Gus Van Sant Bruce Almighty - Tom Shadyac Seance - Kiyoshi Kurosawa The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (♥) - Hirokazu Kore-Eda (it's technically a show) Saving Face - Alice Wu Mrs. Dalloway - Marleen Gorris Smooth Talk (♥) - Joyce Chopra Heavenly Creatures (♥) - Peter Jackson Shrek 2 (♥) - Andrew Adamson Chime (♥) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Video Games: Adding video games to my monthly write-ups because I'm always playing something (mostly Fortnite though, let's be real). Anuchard: This is a cute, puzzly, dungeon crawler. You play as a "Bellwielder" and have to go into dungeons to retrieve souls that went missing from the town. I've only done two of the dungeon houses so far but it's pretty fun! Neon Abyss: I've been playing this a bunch since I installed it. Neon Abyss is a rogue-like, action platformer, which normally I'm not that into but something about this one is really addicting and fun. I really love the graphics too. Peggle 2: Buzz randomly installed this and we are now ADDICTED. It's just so chaotic and fun. These games are all available on Game Pass, btw. Knitting: Last month, I was working on a cardigan. It's now finished! This is the Zakkuri Cardigan by Noriko Ichikawa

I also finished a cotton tank top for the summer. I followed the Cloud Top pattern by Petite Knit. It was my first time working with cotton yarn. Although I'm happy with the finished product, I much prefer working with wool. Cotton is a little finicky to work with and doesn't look as good as wool, imo!

Gardening: Things are blooming! Tomatoes and peas are flowering which means I should have some fruit soon. Lots of flowers are opening up too. One of my big projects this summer is to make a video documenting my garden through the growing season. Here's a little sneak peek:

Ok, I think that's all for May! Thanks for reading.

<3 Heeyoon

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.1

Beer Birthdays

William Krug (1857)

Randy Mosher (1952)

RJ Trent (1968)

Susan Boyle

Five Favorite Birthdays

Morris; Belgian cartoonist (1923)

Mary Martin; actress and singer (1913)

Jeremy Northam; actor (1961)

Jaco Pastorius; jazz bassist (1951)

Richard Pryor; comedian, actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Andrew Adamson; New Zealand film director (1966)

Woody Allen; comedian, writer, film director (1935)

Carol Alt; model. actor (1960)

Micheline Bernardini; French dancer and model (1927)

Eric Bloom; rock guitarist (1944)

Jan Brett; author and illustrator (1949)

Candace Bushnell; writer (1958)

Richard Carrier; author (1969)

Billy Childish; English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (1959)

Jonathan Coulton; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1970)

Julee Cruise; singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (1956)

John Densmore; rock drummer (1945)

David Doyle; actor (1929)

Étienne Maurice Falconet; French sculptor (1716)

Matt Fraction; comic book writer (1975)

Steve Gibb; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1973)

Sophie Guillemin; French actress (1977)

Judith Hackitt; English chemist (1954)

Annette Haven; porn actor (1954)

DeSean Jackson; football player (1986)

Tahar Ben Jelloun; Moroccan author and poet (1944)

Jonathan Katz; comedian and actor (1946)

Clark Kent; fictional character, Superman

Richard Keith; actor and drummer (1950)

Martin Klaproth; German chemist (1743)

Zoë Kravitz; actress, singer, and model (1988)

Jerry Lawson; electronic engineer and inventor (1940)

Jimmy Lyons; saxophonist (1931)

Emily McLaughlin; actress (1928)

Bette Midler; actor, singer (1945)

Bart Millard; singer-songwriter (1972)

Julia A. Moore; poet (1847)

Emily Mortimer; actor (1971)

Sandy Nelson; rock drummer (1938)

Jim Nesbitt; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1931)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski; Polish painter (1869)

Gilbert O'Sullivan; pop singer (1946)

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens; keyboard player (1975)

Billy Paul; soul singer (1934)

Chris Poland; guitarist and songwriter (1957)

Chanel Preston; porn actress (1985)

Lou Rawls; singer (1933)

Martin Rodbell; scientist (1925)

John Schlimm; writer (1971)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; German painter (1884)

Dick Shawn; comedian, actor (1923)

Sarah Silverman; comedian, actor (1970)

Rex Stout; English writer (1886)

Robert Symonds; actor (1926)

Malachi Throne; actor (1928)

Charlene Tilton; actor (1958)

Lee Trevino; golfer (1939)

Jane Turner; Australian actress (1960)

Marie Tussaud; wax modeler-maker (1761)

Mihály Vörösmarty; Hungarian poet (1800)

Treat Williams; actor (1951)

Vesta Williams; singer-songwriter and actress (1957)

Minoru Yamasaki; architect (1912)

[hiddennotions]

Some song reccomendations for you guysss

Stranger by Tim Booth & Angelo Badalamenti

Mercy by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Zen Archer by Todd Rundgren

White Revolving Circles by Helicopter Girl

Unicorn by bel canto

Opera 1 by The Durutti Column

Truly Golden by Wovenhand

Someone by The Divine Comedy

Trouble Every Day by Tindersticks

Scenic Railway by Mick Harvey

Don't Leave by Momus

Lament by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

A Secret Place by Stuart A Staples & Yann Tiersen

Take This Waltz - Paris Version by Leonard Cohen

The Captive Heart by Brendan Perry

Dying On The Vine by John Cale

Polaroid by Mick Harvey

Orchids by Angelo Badalamenti

Observatory Crest by Captain Beefheart

Black Rose by John Cale

Show by Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man

Bluer Than Midnight by The The

Colours Will Come by Billy Mackenzie

The Sweetest Embrace by Barry Adamson & Nick Cave

Wild And Lonely by The Associates

Influenza by Todd Rundgren

Manon by Mick Harvey

Winter Academy by Billy Mackenzie

Six Bells Chime by Crime & The City Solution

[xpoken]

Dans la biographie de la jeune star, il y a des antécédents médicaux: enfant, Eilish souffrait de tics causés par le syndrome de Tourette

Le chanteur ne s'en cache pas et en a même parlé en détail dans une compilation vidéo et a publié une confirmation sur Instagram (le réseau social est interdit en Fédération de Russie, il appartient à la société Meta, reconnue comme extrémiste en Fédération de Russie ).

Billy a également admis qu'elle n'avait jamais consommé de drogue, malgré de nombreuses fausses accusations sur Internet. La star a déclaré qu'elle menait une vie saine et pratiquait le végétarisme avec sa famille.

La seule chose sur laquelle l'interprète populaire est silencieuse jusqu'à présent, c'est sa vie personnelle. Les fans veulent vraiment savoir si elle est maintenant en couple, si elle a un petit ami. Mais pour l'instant, ils ne peuvent que regarder les réseaux sociaux de l'artiste, en espérant que des photos romantiques y figureront bientôt.

Mais la chanteuse a décidé de raconter les détails des relations passées dans le documentaire "Billy Eilish : Le monde est un peu flou", où elle est devenue le personnage central. De là, les fans de la créativité de la star ont découvert l'ex-petit ami de l'idole Brandon Adamson, qui se produit sous le pseudonyme de Q.

Sur la photo d'Ara Jay Cutler, l'interprète a partagé que le jeune homme lui accordait trop peu d'attention, alors elle se sentait indésirable. C'était la cause de la discorde. Par la suite, le musicien a été agressé sur les réseaux sociaux par les followers de l'ex-compagne. En apprenant cela, Billy a demandé aux abonnés de respecter les limites personnelles.

[radiomax]

Wednesday 3/15/23 7pm ET: Feature LP: Adam Lambert - High Drama (2023)

Adam Lambert – High Drama, released February 24, 2023 1 Holding Out for a Hero 3:502 Chandelier 3:443 Ordinary World 3:204 Getting Older 4:245 I Can’t Stand the Rain 3:156 West Coast 3:397 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me 3:448 Sex on Fire 3:199 My Attic 3:1510 I’m a Man 2:5511 Mad About the Boy 2:50 Billy Adamson GuitarFiona Bonds ViolaCharley Bagnall Additional Production, Drums, SynthesizerMike…

[luuurien]

Binker Golding - Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy

(Jazz Fusion, Americana, Post-Bop)

Mixing jazz with classic Americana, blues rock, and country soul, Binker Golding's latest album is unlike any other jazz album to come out this year. Its sound is one rooted in ecstatic expression and painterly musical landscapes, Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy treating you to one of the most passionate and impactful albums Golding has ever put out.

☆☆☆☆☆

Do I ever have a soft spot for Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy. An album mixing two of my favorite musical styles, jazz and country, is almost surefire to be a winner, but Binker Golding puts on such an electrifying show that it's clear he's not sacrificing any of his artistic power for aesthetic indulgence. Dream Like a... innovates not through going for any kind of wild, experimental jazz sound, but by returning to the fundamentals of the genre and its origins: blues, country, Americana, and the resulting music is some of the most energetic and soulful this year. Not having to create a whole new framework for his music to work around the way he had to for something like his February collaboration with Moses Boyd, Feeding the Machine, Golding's music sounds more free and emphatic than ever, exploring themes of death, masculinity, alcohol, and fatherhood through the eternally rustic sound of heartland Americana and jazz. While these points aren't necessarily felt in the music through lyrics or storytelling, it's knowing and hearing these elements throughout Dream Like a... that makes the album such a delight. A quintet comprised of guitarist Billy Adamson, double bassist Daniel Casimir, pianist Sarah Tandy, drummer Sam Jones, and Golding himself on tenor sax, Dream Like a...'s small ensemble makes way for some of the most passionate and expressive music this year. The rhythm section, Casimir and Jones, have been part of Golding's live shows for years now, while Tandy takes over from Joe Armon-Jones and Adamson is a new part of things entirely. By keeping the rhythm section tight and comfortable, the songs drive forward confidently and fluidly while letting the new members show themselves off without having to worry about the chemistry you have to build with a rhythm section over time. After Adamson throws down some jangly blues guitar chords on the incredible nine-minute opener (Take Me to the) Wide Open Lows, Casimir and Jones get right into formation, Jones' bouncy drum fills and consistent ride cymbal notes pushing the song forward like a car cruising down an empty highway. From there, Tandy and Golding share a melodic role, Golding's bubbly solos always converging with a memorable sing-along melodic line that makes for a return point throughout the piece. Dream Like a... was designed as a reminder of the humanity and heart that goes into making music, Golding wanting to "...cover positive & negative relationships {he's} had to both people and things", and by utilizing things like Adamson's blues guitar on the slow ballad 'Til My Heart Stops or a soft, sentimental chord progression like the one on My Two Dads - dedicated to both his father and stepfather who passed away in the past two years - he's able to take the hundreds of feelings connected to that loss and preserve it eternally in his music, the euphoric accelerando in the song's last minute or so one of the most thrilling moments in music this year. It's a precious gift to be able to hear Golding in such an intimate way, approaching feelings that his music has never had the chance to before with the instrumentation backing him up in every moment. It's genuinely hard to find any issues in music that bring out emotions so freely and passionately, Golding using the medium he knows best to explore feelings in a way few others will this year. Because he's not tethered to a voice or songwriting, it's doubly as powerful when you can feel your heart connecting with his in the heartfelt memorial that is My Two Dads or the electrifying With What I Know Now, everything that's been sitting with him for years all coming out in one fell swoop that's impossible to not fall in love with. Golding also makes sure that the rest of his team have a presence within the record, too, making sure he's not the only one at center stage, letting Tandy deliver a sunset-warm solo on the dreamy finale All Out of Fairy Tales or throwing in some standard swing on Howling and Drinking in God's Own Country to show off just how controlled and precise a bassist Casimir is, contributing to the album's sense of cohesion and chemistry between performers that takes it to that next level. Where his 2019 album Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers focused on his experiences as a teenager and young adult - and the ways in which that informed his music - here on Dream Like a... he approaches things with a more mature frame of mind, taking the wistful and relaxed nature of country music and putting it into a jazz context where Golding's music can take root, the liquid guitars and gold-covered saxophone on Love Me Like a Woman only something that could come from an artist digging through feelings that have had more time to simmer inside him. Through that, Dream Like a... is able to bring out the most impressive collection of tracks he's ever put out, in one of the most unique and unexpected ways that could happen. Binker Golding is one of the best contemporary saxophonists doing it right now, and with Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy he proves exactly why he's earned that title. His music is creative, unparalleled, and always exciting, and that has never been the case more than it is here. Seriously, what has come out in even the past decade that sounds remotely like this? It's something incredibly special and innovative Golding has done here, marrying classic Americana sounds with the rich harmonic and melodic language of jazz without sacrificing any of what makes both styles of music so special and distinct. You can imagine hearing this live in the midnight hours of a humid country bar, evening hours lit up by Binker and his crew in a way nobody else could manage, the energy high and the sound there in full without the quintet having to strain their performances to reach it. Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy is an album that I hope will become a landmark for contemporary jazz music, an album with a sound so distinct and memorable that even as it returns to tradition in its instrumentation, it keeps a modern creative spirit alive through it all. I'm not sure there will be anything to come out in the jazz scene that'll be even a fraction of how mesmerizing Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy is, and I don't want there to be. Nobody else could conjure the magic Binker Golding does here.

[zef-zef]

Binker Golding - Live @ jazz re:freshed (2021)

Binker Golding - Sax Billy Adamson - Guitar Sarah Tandy - Piano Max Luthert - Bass Sam Jones - Drums

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to André 3000, Billy Adamson (The Searchers), Paul Bettany, Cilla Black, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jimmy Castor Bunch’s 1972 “Troglodyte” single, Özgür Çevik, John Cheever, Harlan Ellison, Mal Evans, Joseph Fiennes, Neil Finn, The Golden Gate Bridge (1937), Lou Gossett, Jr., Dasheille Hammett, Wild Bill Hickok, Tony Hillerman, The Hollies 1967 “Carrie Anne” single, Hubert Humphrey, Sean Kinney, Peter Knight (Steeleye Span), Christopher Lee, Ramsey Lewis, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Paul McCartney & Wings 1975 VENUS & MARS LP, Lee Meriweather, Thea Musgrave, singer-songwriter Mondo Quinn, Vincent Price, Pete Sears, The Sex Pistols 1977 “God Save the Queen” single, Bud Shank, Siouxsie Sioux, Barry Vissell, my Most Excellent son-in-law Brian Walton, Blind Tom Wiggins, Don Williams, Herman Wouk, Chester Zardis, and renowned guitarist, singer-songwriter, spiritual apologist, human rights activist, environmentalist, (and my neighbor) Bruce Cockburn. He’s been at it a long time, with many awards and kudos to his name, but his music speaks louder than all of that—truly a man on a mission from God. His records have been in my life for many years, presenting me with intelligent spirituality and lyrical beauty that connects with the natural and the urban. Here’s a 2023 interview with Bruce to sum up his latest recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-nCfOUp6cU ...Meanwhile, HB BC—thank you for your volumes of music and service.

#brucecockburn #Canada #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoLighthouse #christian #singersongwriter #activist

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Birthdays 12.1

Beer Birthdays

William Krug (1857)

Randy Mosher (1952)

RJ Trent (1968)

Susan Boyle

Five Favorite Birthdays

Woody Allen; comedian, writer, film director (1935)

Morris; Belgian cartoonist (1923)

Jeremy Northam; actor (1961)

Jaco Pastorius; jazz bassist (1951)

Richard Pryor; comedian, actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Andrew Adamson; New Zealand film director (1966)

Carol Alt; model. actor (1960)

Micheline Bernardini; French dancer and model (1927)

Eric Bloom; rock guitarist (1944)

Jan Brett; author and illustrator (1949)

Candace Bushnell; writer (1958)

Richard Carrier; author (1969)

Billy Childish; English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (1959)

Jonathan Coulton; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1970)

Julee Cruise; singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (1956)

John Densmore; rock drummer (1945)

David Doyle; actor (1929)

Étienne Maurice Falconet; French sculptor (1716)

Matt Fraction; comic book writer (1975)

Steve Gibb; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1973)

Sophie Guillemin; French actress (1977)

Judith Hackitt; English chemist (1954)

Annette Haven; porn actor (1954)

DeSean Jackson; football player (1986)

Tahar Ben Jelloun; Moroccan author and poet (1944)

Jonathan Katz; comedian and actor (1946)

Richard Keith; actor and drummer (1950)

Martin Klaproth; German chemist (1743)

Zoë Kravitz; actress, singer, and model (1988)

Jerry Lawson; electronic engineer and inventor (1940)

Jimmy Lyons; saxophonist (1931)

Mary Martin; actress and singer (1913)

Emily McLaughlin; actress (1928)

Bette Midler; actor, singer (1945)

Bart Millard; singer-songwriter (1972)

Julia A. Moore; poet (1847)

Emily Mortimer; actor (1971)

Sandy Nelson; rock drummer (1938)

Jim Nesbitt; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1931)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski; Polish painter (1869)

Gilbert O'Sullivan; pop singer (1946)

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens; keyboard player (1975)

Billy Paul; soul singer (1934)

Chris Poland; guitarist and songwriter (1957)

Chanel Preston; porn actress (1985)

Lou Rawls; singer (1933)

Martin Rodbell; scientist (1925)

John Schlimm; writer (1971)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; German painter (1884)

Dick Shawn; comedian, actor (1923)

Sarah Silverman; comedian, actor (1970)

Rex Stout; English writer (1886)

Robert Symonds; actor (1926)

Malachi Throne; actor (1928)

Charlene Tilton; actor (1958)

Lee Trevino; golfer (1939)

Jane Turner; Australian actress (1960)

Marie Tussaud; wax modeler-maker (1761)

Mihály Vörösmarty; Hungarian poet (1800)

Treat Williams; actor (1951)

Vesta Williams; singer-songwriter and actress (1957)

Minoru Yamasaki; architect (1912)

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Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Dans la biographie de la jeune star, il y a des antécédents médicaux : enfant, Eilish souffrait de tics causés par le syndrome de Tourette

Le chanteur ne s'en cache pas et en a même parlé en détail dans une compilation vidéo et a publié une confirmation sur Instagram (le réseau social est interdit en Fédération de Russie, il appartient à la société Meta, reconnue comme extrémiste en Fédération de Russie ).

Billy a également admis qu'elle n'avait jamais consommé de drogue, malgré de nombreuses fausses accusations sur Internet. La star a déclaré qu'elle menait une vie saine et pratiquait le végétarisme avec sa famille.

La seule chose sur laquelle l'interprète populaire est silencieuse jusqu'à présent, c'est sa vie personnelle. Les fans veulent vraiment savoir si elle est maintenant en couple, si elle a un petit ami. Mais pour l'instant, ils ne peuvent que regarder les réseaux sociaux de l'artiste, en espérant que des photos romantiques y figureront bientôt.

Mais la chanteuse a décidé de raconter les détails des relations passées dans le documentaire "Billy Eilish : Le monde est un peu flou", où elle est devenue le personnage central. De là, les fans de la créativité de la star ont découvert l'ex-petit ami de l'idole Brandon Adamson, qui se produit sous le pseudonyme de Q.

Sur la photo d'Ara Jay Cutler, l'interprète a partagé que le jeune homme lui accordait trop peu d'attention, alors elle se sentait indésirable. C'était la cause de la discorde. Par la suite, le musicien a été agressé sur les réseaux sociaux par les followers de l'ex-compagne. En apprenant cela, Billy a demandé aux abonnés de respecter les limites personnelles.