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Founded by the Saint Columbo 670AD when he landed on this remote Island from Ireland. It become a Benedictine Abbey 1203/4AD and has remained much the same lay out throughout the centuries. St Oran's and St Martin's Crosses still stand in the same place as the oringinals which had to be changed over the years from wear from the weather and elements. It took me 8 hours driving and two ferry crossings to arrive at the beautiful and holy island of Iona.
Ivo and Mary-Austin, Teutonia Peak, Mojave National Preserve 2002
With great sadness in our hearts, we lost our toughest and healthiest dog Ivo to sudden heart failure one week ago today. Ivo was 12 years young, solid muscle and my running companion on the trails of Elysian Park. Two days before, Ivo and I had run 3 miles together. The morning of his death, he was fine. He was waiting to run with me but a heavy downpour canceled the outing. By the afternoon it was obvious there was something wrong. It happened quickly and we were not prepared in any way for him to leave us.
Ivo came into our life as suddenly as he left it. My running partner Julia and I found Ivo early the morning of December 9th, 1996, lying in the dirt at the entrance into Elysian Park at Academy Road. He'd been hit by a car and had been there all night, curled up in the cold, with a broken back and large gash on the back of his head. He was a stray, dirty and thin with no tags on his collar. Julia and I could not imagine leaving him there to suffer. We loaded him up in her car and took him to the vet. The doctor said we could spend thousands on surgery, put him to sleep, or try to self-heal him. I chose the latter. Ivo was kept heavily sedated, confined to a small dog crate to keep him from moving too much and possibly bringing on paralysis. It was horrible. I kept thinking I was prolonging his suffering and didn't know if I had done the right thing. Within two weeks he was able to stand with one hind leg up--I was elated! Within a few more days that hind leg was touching the ground and he was ready to get on with his active life. With the extensive injuries he had suffered, I hoped for 5-6 years of a good life before arthritis set in, it never did, and the fact that I had him as my companion for more years than I ever imagined didn't soften the blow of losing him.
Ivo was named after the founder of 4AD Records, Ivo Watts Russell and Orrin was the only person who ever figured out the inspiration for his name. One of the label's bands, The Cocteau Twins, had a song called Ivo; it's a song with soaring highs. This described the emotions from his painful arrival into our lives to the joy of watching him run free, blazing down the beaches of southern California or up the towering sand dunes of the Mojave desert.
Ivo was 1/2 Dalmatian and 1/2 Lab. The Dalmatian traits overtook any of the docile Labrador traits, all but the love of water. Ivo was the smartest of our three dogs and definitely the alpha. Julia called him the Clint Eastwood of dogs, he was cool and composed, and men loved him. Ivo was el cazador of our dogs; he hunted lizards, squirrels and any other kind of critters that found themselves in our yard. He dug foxholes around the perimeter of our yard under trees and bushes where he would lay in wait to pounce on unsuspecting wildlife. I give him credit when visitors compliment the landscaping in our yard. It's planted with cactus and agaves in order to protect the more delicate succulents from Ivo's pounces. A flash of black and white, tail wagging furiously, nose shoved deep into the recesses of the plants, he was always trying to rouse lizards up to the surface.
We miss him terribly and have been very lucky to have such a great dog in our lives.
Mary-Austin
Light painting of Dale Chihuly's glass installation in the lobby of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.
This is my long overdue pingback to the Cocteau Twins' 1990 LP, _Heaven or Las Vegas_.
Thank you for your interest in my work. Your kind words, praise and image faves are highly encouraging and deeply appreciated.
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Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock trio (1979 to 1997)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocteau_Twins
Here is a sample video (with bokeh!): youtu.be/L_Tj4bJ0VFw
Theirs was a distinctive sound described at the time as "ethereal goth;" which begat a music subgenre now called "synthwave," "darkwave," "shoegazer," or "dream pop."
One would listen to their LP records (or CDs) from start to finish; single songs just weren't enough! They were a posterchild for 4AD, a British independent record label that packaged albums with visually distinctive identities that incorporated abstract images like my photograph above.
High Violet is the fifth studio album by The National, which was released on May 10, 2010 in Europe and on May 11, 2010 in North America via 4AD. The band produced the album themselves, assisted by Peter Katis with whom they worked on their previous albums Alligator and Boxer.
The album was also included in the 2011 edition of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2019, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 147 on their list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s".
In my opinion, a perfect album.
Terrible love: youtu.be/rEZJ_sjG7II
The original version: youtu.be/9bEGHRdTZ6o
Explored highest position: 28 on Tuesday, May 12, 2020
09 March 2013
The Beatles Story
Britannia Vaults, Royal Albert Dock,
Liverpool L3 4AD, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
The Beatles Story, Liverpool :
The Beatles Story is the world's largest permanent exhibition showcasing the story of the band’s lives and highlights from their rise to global fame in popular music.
The Beatles/Fab Four - Formed in Liverpool in 1960, The Beatles were an English rock band, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are considered as one of the most famous/influential band in musical history.
Located in the Fab Four's hometown of Liverpool on the stunning waterfront of the UNESCO World heritage site at the Royal Albert Dock, The Beatles Story takes visitors on an immersive, atmospheric journey through the story of the lives, times, culture and music of The Beatles.
The exhibition traces the details of how the Fab Four met and provides a walk through recreations of key locations and moments from the band’s career including The Casbah Club, Hamburg, The Cavern Club, Abbey Road Studios, America and much, much more.
The Beatles Story features an impressive collection of fascinating authentic memorabilia including original instruments, clothing, John Lennon’s spectacles, Ringo Starr’s drum kit, rare album sleeves, never-before-seen photography and original handwritten lyrics.
Multimedia guides (included with entry pass) and are available in 12 different languages and are packed with information, imagery, video interviews, beautifully narrated by John Lennon’s sister, Julia Baird.
albertdock.com/attractions/the-beatles-story/
Merseytravel (Owner of The Beatles Story) :
The Beatles Story is owned by Mersey Travel who co-ordinates and provides public transport across Merseyside(Liverpool region) and owns other attractions such as Mersey Ferries, Spaceport, the U-Boat Story and the Mersey Tunnel Tours.
Merseytravel (founded in 1969) is the strategic transport advisor to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and is also responsible, on its behalf, for transport delivery.
The Combined Authority is led by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram bringing together Liverpool City Region’s six local authorities – Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, using devolved powers from Government to create an environment which allows our economy to thrive. We work together to make investments in areas that have a real impact on our communities, such as transport, employment, culture, digital and housing.
Merseytravel’s focus is on supporting the economic growth of the Liverpool City Region by improving connectivity across the region and beyond, supporting and maintaining an integrated transport network and improving the customer experience from ticket buying to working with partners to get people to and from major events.
Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
Este disco nos hace sentir a los Cocteau navegando por plácidas aguas de las costas británicas. Estos son sitios donde el agua es capaz de regenerar la vida y donde sentirla es todo un gusto. Es debido a esa capacidad de estar ahí presente, donde se puede tener la voz de Elizabeth Fraser como el reflejo de las gotas que estando en el agua, son capaces de generar un ambiente tal de emoción, que el solo contemplarlas hace tener una plenitud espiritual. Así es, porque la música de esta banda, en aquel momento (1988 y siendo aún parte de 4AD) estaba más allá de calificaciones de críticos, para ser más bien parte de esa legión de sonidos que merecen más ser comparados con la naturaleza que con lo sintético.
Este es un disco que puede escucharse como el cierre de una etapa, para la búsqueda de un nuevo porvenir. Se estaba cerrando una década prolífica en la discografía de los Cocteau, con el lanzamiento de discos, sencillos, recopilaciones y abriendo el cauce para que otras bandas tuvieran un sonido igualmente navegable. No tener referencia a nada más que la naturaleza, como bien hemos leído acá, en otras reseñas, nos hace pensar en cuántos grupos así tenemos en la actualidad.
¿Cuántas aguas son únicas?
1. Blue Bell Knoll
2. Athol-Brose
3. Carolyn's Fingers
4. For Phoebe Still a Baby
5. Itchy Glowbo Blow
6. Cico Bluff
7. Suckling the Mender
8. Spooning Good Singing Gum
9. Kissed Out Red Floatboat
10. Ella Megablast Burls Forever
Soundscape // Paysage sonore: COCTEAU TWINS ("THROUGHOUT THE DARK MONTHS of April And May"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M5JbiZ70LM
Jonction du Canal de Calais et de l'Aa, et séparation naturelle des départements du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais, vue ici depuis les rives d'Holque, avec St-Pierre-Brouck (à droite) et Ruminghem (à gauche).
"Superbe ambiance et belles tonalités profondes comme je les aime !" // "Great atmosphere and lovely deep tones as I like them." (TRISKELLFLEUR / www.flickr.com/photos/131430984@N02/)
"Splendide avec le petit crochet de lune... On entre dans l'automne, cette ambiance sombre et sublime à la fois; tu l'as captée en août, et l'ambiance "4AD" nous entraîne dans une noirceur printanière... car c'est le cœur qui dicte les saisons." // "Splendid with this little moon hook... You've shot it in August but you make us enter autumn, with an atmosphere as dark as sublime. The 4AD feel leads us into a spring darkness, beacuse the heart still dictates the seasons." (VINCENT / www.flickr.com/photos/58769600@N07/)
cologne - 09/2011
listening to zomby - natalia's song
Luckily, the music of Zomby does – not that it’s that easy to pin down. Earlier releases have marked him out as a denizen of the post-rave diaspora, marshalling lurking dubstep bass, 16-bit sound effects, and on his debut album Where Were U In ‘92, a purposefully nutty love-letter to the hardcore era, all crashing breakbeats, airhorns and ragga toasting. Also present in his music, though, is a sort of ascetic centre – an emotional quality in some ways reminiscent of his peer Burial, but also redolent of Aphex Twin’s more melodic ambient work.
Dedication, Zomby’s debut LP for 4AD, resolves to explore this side of his music a little more fully. Recorded in tribute "to someone much loved and missed", it is a far more subtle collection than …In ‘92. Natalia’s Song, with its yearning synth and cut-up vocal line, is reminiscent of Burial, but throws in a wildcard of gentle, minor-key piano. Things Fall Apart, pixel-like melodies scattered over a snappy grime beat, boasts a sombre vocal from Animal Collective’s Panda Bear. And the drill’n’bass-ish Florence is exquisite in its construction, all beats like butterfly wings and synths so slender they might break in a strong wind.
The beauty of Dedication is the way it takes a sound palette familiar to the dancefloor, but uses it to paint an unfamiliar picture. When gunshots ring out on Witch Hunt, a wisp of choral synth and flickering snare, it feels less like a gangsta move and more like a metaphor only its maker understands. He probably won’t elaborate. Credit to this fine record that, when you actually listen to it, the need for explanation feels like the last thing on your mind.
source: www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/gpgw
the problem with hanging out with models at festivals, is they are so busy getting changed into morning/afternoon and evening outfits, and throwing shapes outside the tent- whilst your only chance to see the Breeders slowly slips away, that when your hear the intro to Cannonball you give up and know you'll never make it in time.
what makes it worse is when the girl in question doesnt know the who the Hell the Breeders are, no Tanya Donnelly, no Belly, no 4AD, no Kirsten Hirsch. I'm at a loss.
It was so great seeing Lush for the first time. When they toured 20 years ago, I was in high school and they didn't stop by my small upstate NY town. I am sorry for posting two concert photos in one day but I loved the thought of Miki Berenyi sharing a space with Jarvis Cocker considering their amazing duet on "Ciao!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z59DMRWh9s
More photos of Lush last night here:
www.thelineofbestfit.com/photos/live-photo-gallery/lush-a...
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Singer SM Roadster 4AD (1951-55) Engine 1497cc S4 OC Production 3440
Registration Number HSK 396
SINGER ALBUM
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623722487129...
Introduced as a four seater sports tourer, the 4AB model was powered by the same short stroke 1500cc engine as the SM 1500 Saloon, and the later Hunter. Cars had hydromech brakes and the old familiar late thirties styling as the 1074cc Nine Roadster. The 58bhp twin carburettor engine (optional from 1953 on) gave the car a fairly lively performance. Early models were export only until 1953
This car is a 4AD, exported directly to the USA from new. It returned to the UK in 1991, converted to right hand drive, and has under gone a more recent restoration
Diolch am 91,831,850 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 91,831,850 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 17.04.2022 Weston Park (Classic Car Show), Weston-under-Lizard, Salop 157-319
The Singer Roadster is a nine tax horsepower open 2/4-seater sports-tourer automobile manufactured by Singer from 1939 until 1955.
A 10 minute light, colour projection with sound onto the side of the 15th century Rufus Castle, Portland b-side.org.uk/events/of-sea-and-stone
The 1990 UK b-side of the 4AD single "Iceblink Luck"
bithbox # 174
Cocteau Twins "Mizake the Mizan"
PS : This image is an ammonite as it would have looked when alive in the oceans.
Photo taken in Kungsholmstorg at Gärdesloppet, or Prins Bertil Memorial, Stockholm, Sweden.
Driver: Rolf Lindblom.
Singer was an automobile company founded in 1905 in Coventry, England. It was acquired by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom in 1956. By 1928 Singer was Britain's third largest car maker after Austin and Morris. While 1952 was a prolific year of Singer production only 1,546 automobiles were manufactured. The Singer 4A Roadster 1074cc was produced from 1949 to 1952.
English car manufacturers were looking to the United States as a market place. 1952 was the first year that a left hand drive model was produced and featured trafficators (turn signals) that were modified for the United States.
www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z13736/Singer-4AD.aspx
Gärdesloppet, or Prins Bertil Memorial:
Prince Bertil Memorial takes place each year in Stockholm, Sweden, in honour of Prince Bertil, uncle to Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf. The Prince was a race-car driver in the 1930s, using the pseudonym "Monsieur Adrian" to placate his disapproving father, later King Gustaf VI Adolf. Prince Bertil continued to act in the monarchy's best interests by forgoing marriage to his British girlfriend, Lilian Craig. Under Swedish law, which has since been changed, such a union with a commoner would have rendered him ineligible to serve as regent, should the need have arisen, to Carl Gustaf, son of Prince Bertil's deceased older brother. The Prince finally married the patient Lilian in 1976, three years after nephew Carl Gustaf was safely on the throne.
Where The Journey Begins
It was the trip to Liverpool. The music plays, candles light up the space with beats from the music. It melts into my beating heart. Softened Lighting dances with the song.
City: Liverpool
Country: United Kingdom
© 2014 Kurosawa Michiyo
Bar:
The Smugglers Cove
Britannia Pavillion
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4AD
Acoustic Guitarist/ Singer
Alan Triggs
I thought to give this shot a 23 envelope look and feel. Maybe you know the works of Vaughan Oliver for v23 and 23 envelope for the discography of my life 4AD, maybe not, so check here for awesome works...Best known works were the sleeves for The Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance and Pixies in the eighties and early ninetiees.
Title after a delicatessen from The Cocteau Twins
Broken Face.
...I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu, oooo
I got a broken face
there was this man who snapped his poke
in little pieces
and then they drilled holes
and then they put 'em back in there...
(Pixies, 1988)
Ah, the late 80s really were exciting times for guitar-based music. And Pixies were one of the first American 'indie' bands I got into (via Sonic Youth and Throwing Muses). While 89's 'Doolittle' is the album that gets most press, the debut mini-lp 'C'mon Pilgrim' and the follow-up 'Surfer Rosa' (from which this track comes) are my favourites. The delivery is fast and edgy, the ferocity and darkness is flavoured and scented with melody... and it truly was something new.
Kurt Cobain said that without Pixies there'd be no Nirvana. And anyone who remembers the music scene before Black Francis and the gang arrived would have to agree.
Track available on: 'Surfer Rosa'/'C'mon Pilgrim' CD (4AD - GAD803CD)
Henryk Górecki
CD + Postcard :
Henryk Górecki
Symphony N° 3
4AD
CAD 477
Conductor . Yordan Kamdzhalov
Orchestra . Genesis Orchestra
Vocals . Lisa Gerrard
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
Day 60 2017 365 (C)
My first and long awaited visit to "Stone Chapel" at Stone-next-to-Faversham. This ruined Church lies on Watling Street between Dover and London. The first structure on this site (4AD) was a Romano - British temple that was later incorporated into a Christian Church around (7AD) and is the only example of this in the UK. Later extended and rebuilt is Saxon times 11th Century and again in the 13th Century the Church was dedicated to 'our Lady of Elwarton" and was used until the 16th Century when it fell out of use and abandoned. Now an English Heritage site and a pleasure to visit on a cold but bright spring morning.....
Photo taken in Kungsholmstorg at Gärdesloppet, or Prins Bertil Memorial, Stockholm, Sweden.
Driver: Rolf Lindblom.
Singer was an automobile company founded in 1905 in Coventry, England. It was acquired by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom in 1956. By 1928 Singer was Britain's third largest car maker after Austin and Morris. While 1952 was a prolific year of Singer production only 1,546 automobiles were manufactured. The Singer 4A Roadster 1074cc was produced from 1949 to 1952.
English car manufacturers were looking to the United States as a market place. 1952 was the first year that a left hand drive model was produced and featured trafficators (turn signals) that were modified for the United States.
www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z13736/Singer-4AD.aspx
Gärdesloppet, or Prins Bertil Memorial:
Prince Bertil Memorial takes place each year in Stockholm, Sweden, in honour of Prince Bertil, uncle to Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf. The Prince was a race-car driver in the 1930s, using the pseudonym "Monsieur Adrian" to placate his disapproving father, later King Gustaf VI Adolf. Prince Bertil continued to act in the monarchy's best interests by forgoing marriage to his British girlfriend, Lilian Craig. Under Swedish law, which has since been changed, such a union with a commoner would have rendered him ineligible to serve as regent, should the need have arisen, to Carl Gustaf, son of Prince Bertil's deceased older brother. The Prince finally married the patient Lilian in 1976, three years after nephew Carl Gustaf was safely on the throne.