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Sussex man charged with explosive and terror offences following counter terrorism investigation
The man was initially arrested in Burgess Hill
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A man from Haywards Heath has been charged after a counter terrorism led investigation.
Scott Porter, 43, of St Josephs Way, was arrested on Tuesday, August 25, in Burgess Hill by officers from the Counter Terrorism Policing South East, with colleagues from Sussex Police. He was charged today (August 27).
Porter was charged with making or possessing an explosive substance in suspicious circumstances and also charged with three offences of possessing terrorist related material.
In a statement from police a spokesperson said: "Scott Porter was arrested as part of an investigation by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East, assisted by Sussex Police.
"The charges come following an arrest carried out on Tuesday in Burgess Hill.
"Porter has been charged with making or possessing an explosive substance in suspicious circumstances under Section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883."
"He has also been charged with three offences of possessing terrorist related material under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing South East."
Porter has been remanded in custody and was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates today.
Chief Superintendent Jerry Westerman of Sussex Police said: "We have worked closely with the Counter-Terrorism investigators to support their operation and through this effective police action we are confident there is no current risk to the local community."
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Writing Forum > Writing Related > Writing Discussion > What are your methods for creating character/place names for fantasy worlds
Thread: What are your methods for creating character/place names for fantasy worlds
May 23rd, 2019, 05:45 PM #1
Taitus
What are your methods for creating character/place names for fantasy worlds
Like playing any RPG game where you can create a character, the name is always the hardest part.
If some of the more experienced writers could give us some insight on the matter, it wouldnt just help myself but many others that are struggling to think of the perfect name.
ArrowInTheBowOfTheLord
There are many ways to do this. The hardest way is Tolkein's way -- to invent a fantasy language and create names from that. Me, I'm not much of a linguist, so I just mash random syllables together until something sounds good. Or I use an already-established name -- it's totally fine to have a fantasy universe where characters have names from real life. For place names you can also use qualities of the place (i. e. Iron Mountains, South Marshes). You could also smash real words together like David Lindsay ("Maskull," "Wombflash," "Joiwind," "Polecrab").
Rojack79
I start by researching the culture my fantasy world is supposed to emulate and then go from there.
This might not be my best work but that just means there's room to improve.
Also, one more thing: don't worry too much about "the perfect name." It doesn't have to be a perfect name; it just has to be good. Do I really care much if Aragorn's name sounds cool or not? No, not really. It's him as a character that matters. As long as the name fits, is not impossible to pronounce, and doesn't sound too silly (i. e. "Joost" from Six of Crows, which sounds like "juiced" when said out loud), you're fine.
"So long is the way to the unknown, long is the way we have come. . ." ~ Turisas, Five Hundred and One
"[An artist is] an idiot babbling through town. . .crying, 'Dreams, dreams for sale! Two for a kopek, two for a song; if you won't buy them, just take them for free!'" ~ Michael O' Brien, Sophia House
Christ is risen from the dead,
trampling on Death by death,
And on those in the tombs,
lavishing light.
luckyscars
Get some alphabet pasta, separate vowels and consonants.
Make a list of abstract nouns: Beauty, Love, Happiness, Lust
For each word, replace all the vowels with random alphabet pasta vowels.
Once this is done, switch up to three of the consonants for random alphabet pasta consonants.
Repeat until you have names.
Write these names down...
Happiness = Roppokast, The High Priest of Dungmir
Go write story.
"If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree."
lenvillecards
Try to imagine what they look like. What their characteristics are. A hero or villain. If they are an aggressive, rugged, strong , etc give them a hard name to match. For a softer, gentler character give them a smoother name. If a common name seems to fit, mix it up a little bit.
Sir-KP
My steps:
- Get a couple of keywords that describe the subject whether it's human or world
- Find translation in another language
- Mash it or tweak it
- Ask yourself if this character or world 'looks like' a bearer of that name
Place names can be created by using some descriptive qualities. World's edge for the last outpost of some kingdom perhaps?
I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life


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Breidablik was featured in episode #125, broadcast on 27 January 2018
From the album "Penumbra":
1. Penumbra Part 1
About Breidablik
In the search of light, we forget the beauty of darkness.
Morten Birkeland Nielsen is a Norwegian synthesist who artistically goes by Breidablik. Breidablik's second full-length album "Penumbra" was released on Pancromatic Records in the autumn of 2017. The album contains four songs and has an overall playtime of more than 40 minutes. "Penumbra" is a concept album exploring the forces of darkness and light. A penumbra is a region around the edge of a sunspot. It's darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.
Breidablik uses mainly analog synthesizers as the creative tool. He builds large electronic soundscapes with sequences, drones and ambient textures. "Penumbra" follows the footsteps of artists such as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Michael Hoenig. But the album also adds distinctiveness and innovation. "Penumbra" should appeal to fans of progressive electronic music and especially to those who enjoy the music from the Berlin School of Electronic Music.
In 2012 Breidablik started out. He debuted with "Songs from the Northern Wasteland" in 2016, a split cassette with folk-proggers Jordsjø. The debut full-length album "Vinter" followed as a cassette release in January 2017. Sophomore album "Penumbra" is available digitally at Bandcamp and as gatefold-cover LP on well-renowned label Pancromatic Records. The LP is limited to 300 copies on transparent vinyl.
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Is it possible to do so? Hopefully I've explained myself decently lol

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Update: All scores have been updated for games played to 13/12/2015.
On a day where there were few points scored all round, Watford's Ighalo and Everton's Lukaku continued their good form with goals.
Manchester United lost 2-1 to Bournemouth with their only goal coming from midfielder Felaini. Bournemouth are up to 14th now after back to back wins against the "big boys" whilst Crystal Palace and Watford are continuing their excellent recent form sitting 6th and 7th respectively. A Man City win over manager-less Swansea saw them jump back to the top of the table.
On Sunday, Spurs lose at home to a slowly reviving Newcastle (no goals again from Kane), Liverpool are held 2-2 at home to WBA and Aresnal win at Villa to go top of the EPL – Giroud netting again.


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Paulina Porizkova (en tchèque : Pavlína Pořízková, prononcé [ˈpavliːna ˈpor̝iːskovaː]), née le  à Prostějov (Tchécoslovaquie), est un mannequin et une actrice d'origine tchèque naturalisée suédoise puis américaine.

Biographie

Enfance
Née à Prostějov, en Tchécoslovaquie, Paulina Porizkova est encore une enfant lorsque ses parents quittent le pays en 1968, fuyant l'invasion des troupes du pacte de Varsovie conséquemment au Printemps de Prague. Ils gagnent Lund, en Suède, en laissant la jeune Paulina sous la garde de sa grand-mère en Tchécoslovaquie, en croyant que leur fille pourrait émigrer plus tard.

Toutefois, les autorités tchécoslovaques ne permettent pas ce départ, et la bataille juridique qui s'ensuit pour la famille est largement médiatisée en Suède, faisant d'elle une cause célèbre. Après une tentative de sauvetage avortée, dans laquelle sa mère est arrêtée par la police, la pression politique menée par le ministre d'État suédois Olof Palme amène le gouvernement communiste à laisser la famille Porizkova se retrouver, après sept années de séparation. Paulina Porizkova acquiert la nationalité suédoise. Pourtant, rapidement après, ses parents se séparent. Son père part ; elle en est d'ailleurs toujours éloignée aujourd'hui.

La famille fait alors face à des difficultés financières, et la jeune fille et son frère - Jáchym Pořízek, né en Tchécoslovaquie lors de l'arrestation de sa mère - sont parfois obligés de voler du pain pour avoir quelque chose à manger.

Carrière

Mannequinat
En 1980, un ami photographe en herbe prend des photos de Paulina Porizkova et les envoie à l'agence de mannequins Elite Model Management, en espérant qu'on l'engagerait lui, pour ses compétences en matière de photographie. Cependant, au lieu de porter son attention sur lui, un directeur d'Elite, John Casablancas, remarque le potentiel de la jeune Paulina Porizkova et lui offre un billet pour Paris. Elle mesure , une taille idéale pour un mannequin.

Sa notoriété progresse rapidement dans le milieu parisien au cours des années 1980, et sa renommée se répand bientôt aux États-Unis où elle pose en maillot de bain pour le magazine Sports Illustrated. Elle apparaît également sur la couverture du Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue en 1984 et de nouveau en 1985 (sa première apparition en tant que mannequin dans le magazine date de en 1983). Elle apparaît sur la couverture du magazine Playboy en , et pour un calendrier en maillot de bain (non-nu). Les deux calendriers publiés en 1988 et 1989 et conçus par le photographe Marco Glaviano se vendent à des centaines de milliers d'exemplaires.

Elle est choisie à deux reprises par le magazine People comme l'une des cinquante plus belles personnalités dans le monde, en 1990 et 1992. La revue Harper's Bazaar la nomme parmi les dix plus belles femmes du monde en 1992. American Photo, dans son premier numéro déclare qu'elle est le mannequin des années 1980. Elle apparaît sur les couvertures de nombreux magazines à travers le monde durant les années 1980 et 1990, y compris dans Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Self, Cosmopolitan et Glamour. Elle apparaît aussi dans la publicité pour la boisson « Sprite Zero ». Elle fait la couverture de Cosmopolitan pour le vingtième anniversaire du magazine, en .

En 1988, Paulina Porizkova gagne le contrat de mannequin le mieux rémunéré de l'année : six millions de dollars avec les produits cosmétiques Estée Lauder Inc., remplaçant le mannequin Willow Bay. Dans les années 1980, la stratégie d'Estée Lauder Inc. est de s'éloigner de l'ancienne génération de femmes afin de cibler les jeunes citadines, des femmes actives professionnellement. C'est à partir de photographies en maillot de bain que la société transforme radicalement l'image de Paulina Porizkova, qui reste jusqu'en 1995 l'égerie de la marque.

Ses photos apparaissent dans le livre-photo de Marco Glaviano Models and Sirens (Des Modèles et des Sirènes), ainsi que dans celui de Patrick Demarchelier Fashion Photography (Photographie de Mode) dont elle fait la couverture. Ce dernier comprend quelques-unes des photos faites en maillot de bain pour le magazine Life, datant de plusieurs années. Elle apparaît également dans le livre Women (Femmes), par Herb Ritts.

Après avoir donné naissance à son premier enfant en 1993, Paulina Porizkova consacre de moins en moins de temps au mannequinat  et commence à s'intéresser aux films indépendants. Elle ne tarde pourtant pas à obtenir un nouveau contrat avec la marque Escada. Début 2001, elle est présentatrice d'une émission de télévision américaine sur la chaîne E!, qui appartient au réseau Style Channel.

Télévision
Elle fait partie du panel des juges du programme télévisé America's Next Top Model des dixième, onzième et douzième (février-, septembre- et mars-) saisons de l'émission, remplaçant le mannequin Twiggy. Le principe est de sélectionner dans une série d'émissions hebdomadaires un mannequin et de lui offrir une chance de percer dans le milieu du mannequinat. Elle continue à mener régulièrement les évaluations hebdomadaires de America's Next Top Model jusqu'à ce qu'elle a annonce avoir été congédiée au cours d'une apparition au talk-show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, sur CBS, le . Elle participe au printemps 2007 au programme télévisé Dancing with the Stars (qui consiste à apprendre à danser à une personnalité, sur une série d'émissions éliminatoires), mais elle est éliminée dès la première émission, diffusée le .

Elle participe à l'émission satirique The Colbert Report le . Elle apparaît dans un épisode de la série comique Head Case, diffusé le . En janvier 2010, elle joue le rôle de Clarissa, dans le soap opéra de la chaîne CBS As the World Turns. La même année, elle joue dans le dix-septième épisode de la sixième saison de la série télévisée Desperate Housewives, où elle interprète son propre rôle.

Cinéma
La première apparition de Paulina Porizkova dans un film (Portfolio) est en réalité un faux documentaire de 1983, qui intervient dans le cadre de sa carrière de mannequin. Elle a seulement dix-sept ans et laisse transpirer une certaine maturité qui lui vaut de devenir la « cover-girl » du film (de faire la couverture). Elle apparaît dans le film de 1987 Anna (dont la vedette est Sally Kirkland) et reçoit de bonnes critiques des lecteurs du magazine Vogue. Son rôle le plus connu à ce jour date de 1989, où elle tient l'affiche du film Son alibi avec Tom Selleck (dont la rumeur veut qu'il ne s'entendait pas avec elle). Toutefois, elle est sélectionnée aux Razzie Awards (dixième édition) en tant que « pire actrice ».

Elle apparaît dans le film d'Emir Kusturica Arizona Dream, avec Johnny Depp et Jerry Lewis, dans le rôle mineur de la jeune fiancée polonaise de ce dernier. Elle apparaît également dans le film C'est pas mon jour ! (Thursday), en 1998. Elle écrit et réalise le film Roommates (Colocataires). En 2004, elle joue dans la comédie romantique, Amour, amitié et petites infidélités (un film aux États-Unis, un téléfilm en France), mais refuse de tenir le rôle d'une James Bond girl dans le film GoldenEye (1995) : en effet, elle touchait alors en tant que mannequin un cachet plus important et ne voulait pas s'éloigner de sa famille pendant la durée du tournage.

Filmographie
 1983 : Portfolio : Elite Model
 1984 : Covergirl
 1987 : Saturday Night Live (série télévisée) : plusieurs rôles
 1987 : Anna : Krystyna
 1989 : Her Alibi : Nina Lonescu
 1993 : Arizona Dream : Millie
 1995 : Ned and Stacey (série télévisée) : Alexa Miroslav
 1996 : Female Perversions : Langley Flynn
 1996 : Wedding Bell Blues : Tanya Touchev
 1998 : C'est pas mon jour ! (Thursday) : Dallas
 1998 : Long Time Since : Diane Thwaite
 2000 : Dans les griffes de la mode (The Intern) : Chi Chi Chemise
 2000 : Liés par le crime (Partners in Crime) : Wallis P. Longsworth
 2000 : Talk to Me (série télévisée) : Teresa
 2000 : After the Rain : Ellen Maxfield
 2001 : Dark Asylum : Maggie
 2001 : Roomates : Eliza
 2002 : Au plus près du paradis : Mary Rafelson
 2002 : People I Know :  Fahri
 2003 : Essential Music Videos: Hits of the '80s (court métrage) : The Girl
 2004 : Second Best : Allison
 2004 : Knots : Lily Kildear
 2009-2010 : As the World Turns (série télévisée) : Clarissa
 2010 : Desperate Housewives (série télévisée) : Paulina Porizkova
 2011 : Are We There Yet? (série télévisée) : Katrina
 2012 : Jane by Design (série télévisée) : Paulina Porizkova
 2015 : Les Mystères de Laura (The Mysteries of Laura) (série télévisée) : Charlotte Bernice
 2016-2017 Nightcap (série télévisée) : Ana

Écriture
Paulina Porizkova est coauteur avec Joanne Russell d'un livre pour enfants, Les Aventures de Ralphie le cafard (The Adventures of Ralphie the Roach) (), illustré par son beau-fils Adam Ocasek et publié en septembre 1992. En 2007, elle publie son premier roman, A Model Summer (Un été de mannequin, Modellsommar en suédois ; ), en 2007. Le livre raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille suédoise de quinze ans (Jivina) choisie par un agent de mannequins, pour passer un été à travailler à Paris, en 1980.

Elle est actuellement blogeuse pour le site Modelinia et The Huffington Post.

Vie privée
Le , Paulina Porizkova épouse Ric Ocasek, le chanteur du groupe de rock The Cars. Ils s'étaient rencontrés en 1984 lors du tournage du vidéoclip « Drive », réalisé par Timothy Hutton et dans lequel elle est la vedette. Elle n'a alors que dix-neuf ans et Ric Ocasek est déjà marié. Le couple a ensemble deux enfants.

Elle est le sujet de la chanson Friends of P, du groupe The Rentals, sur leur album sorti en 1995. Écrite par le chanteur Matt Sharp, elle est présente sur l'album Return of the Rentals.

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Membre du jury de RuPaul's Drag Race
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Photo:Larissa Petruk, right, and the Barvinok dance troupe from Mississauga, Ontario, perform during the Ukrainian Festival in Irondequoit on Sunday.
IRONDEQUOIT — Hundreds of festival-goers stopped what they were doing to watch as dancers took the stage Sunday in red boots, black heels and swirling costumes.
The fourth and final day of the Ukrainian Festival at St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Irondequoit drew large crowds even as temperatures soared into the upper 80s. All day, the kitchen pumped out varenyky (Ukrainian-style pierogi in melted butter), kovbasa (Ukrainian sausage) and holubtsi (cabbage rolls), among other traditional favorites.
The festival, in its 37th year, is the church's biggest fundraiser, said festival Chairman Richard Pucher. About 20,000 people attend each year.
Pucher says the festival keeps Ukrainian traditions alive, shares these traditions with people who are not Ukrainian, and allows older parishioners to show off their expertise in such things as cooking and crafts.


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LA Rapper Ab-Soul to headline Potbelly's on April 28.
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Potbelly's is stepping its game up. Following the announcement that J Cole will be coming to Pot's on June 3, the venue has announced that LA-based rapper Ab-Soul will be coming to the Tallahassee venue for a show on Friday, April 28.
Ab-Soul's career took off in 2007 when he was signed to TDE and formed the hip hop group "Black Hippy" with Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, and Schoolboy Q. Ab-Soul's new album, titled "Do What Thou Wilt," is a chronology of his early life in LA, and everything that led to his 'big break.' Other notable hits from the west coast rapper include "Illuminate," his hit with Kendrick Lamar, and "Terrorist Threats" with Danny Brown.
Ab-Soul will be performing songs from Do What Thou Wilt, as well as hits from his older albums when he performs at Pots on April 28th. Doors open at 8 p.m. with the show following at 9 p.m.. Tickets are $25 general admission, and $65 for a meet-and-greet with Ab-Soul.
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Switzerland, Serbia meet for spot in last 16 at World Cup
Serbia's Aleksandar Mitrovic , 9, celebrates scoring his side's third goal during the World Cup group G soccer match between Cameroon and Serbia, at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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DOHA, Qatar —
When Serbia plays Switzerland at the World Cup on Friday, it will be a head-to-head elimination match to get into the knockout round.
The European rivals will meet at Stadium 974 looking to advance alongside Group G leader Brazil.
Serbia coach Dragan Stojković said Thursday "in April we knew Brazil would be in a different dimension" and the other teams were playing for second place.
"The prediction brought us to this point and there was no other way," Stojković said through a translator.
Brazil's 1-0 win over Switzerland on Monday, days after beating Serbia 2-0, sent the five-time world champions to the round of 16 even before playing its last game against Cameroon.
That left Switzerland in second place and likely needing only a draw with Serbia to advance. Not that the Swiss plan on settling for less than a victory.
"I don't know a single team in the world that would go on the pitch aiming for a 0-0. That's really dangerous," Switzerland midfielder Djibril Sow said.
Still, Switzerland have a proven record of managing these situations in modern tournaments, advancing out of the group to the round of 16 at the past two World Cups and in the past two European Championships.
Serbia has not played a World Cup knockout match since becoming an independent nation, and a relative lack of tournament experience — playing at three of the four World Cups since 2010 but no European Championships — perhaps showed in Qatar.
Leading Cameroon 3-1 on Monday, the Serbians lost control and conceded back-to-back second-half goals quickly to draw the game.
Stojković said his team made "silly mistakes" in that game but added criticism of his players back home was disrespectful to Cameroon.
"It cannot be seen as a tragedy," the coach said. "Nothing is lost for Serbia here. The good thing is we decide our destiny."
The five goals Serbia has so far conceded is as many as the rest of the group combined, while Switzerland has let in only Casemiro's rising shot in Brazil's 1-0 win.
Switzerland didn't have a shot on Brazil goalkeeper Alisson Becker, but should have two creative threats on Friday: Xherdan Shaqiri in a playmaker role and Noah Okafor, whose pace and direct play can be used late in games.
Shaqiri and captain Granit Xhaka were key figures — with their goals and provocative celebrations — when the Swiss beat Serbia 2-1 at the last World Cup. Shaqiri was born in Kosovo, the former Serbian province that declared independence in 2008. Serbia doesn't recognize Kosovo's independence and relations between the two countries remain tense. Xhaka's parents are originally from Kosovo and they are of Albanian heritage. His brother plays for Albania's national team.
Both camps have declined to revisit that tense history this week, with Switzerland coach Murat Yakin on Thursday explaining a decision taken in April to speak only about the game ahead.
"We are ready and mature enough to just play soccer and ignore everything else," said Yakin, who took charge of the Swiss team only last year.
That was a game in Russia that Serbian fans still remember ruefully for a penalty call not given for an apparent foul by two defenders on forward Aleksandar Mitrović.
Mitrović scored his first goal in Qatar against Cameroon, though a partnership with Dušan Vlahović has not developed.
Stojković did not call on Vlahović against Cameroon, after the Juventus forward lacked match sharpness from a recent groin injury when coming on late in the opening 2-0 loss against Brazil.
Barring an unlikely big win for Cameroon against Brazil on Friday, Switzerland and Serbia are playing for second place in the standings and a last-16 game Tuesday against the Group H winner — possibly Portugal.
That could suit either team. Serbia qualified for the tournament in Qatar by winning in Lisbon to top its qualifying group, while the Swiss and Portuguese traded home wins in June in the UEFA Nations League.
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09 - Tesi di dottorato
Understanding volatile evolution associated with active volcanic magmatic systems is of paramount importance because volatiles control and determine the magnitude of an eruption owing to the large change in molar volume that volatile species show depending on their physical state (volatiles dissolved in silicate melts vs. volatiles exsolved as vapor). For active volcanic systems studying the volatile evolution can help to assess the potential hazard associated to a certain locality. Also, volatile evolution in magmatic system controls the formation of certain ore deposits. Despite the importance of understanding volatile evolution of magmatic systems, concentrations of volatiles of evolving magmas are not easily available especially for magmas originated in the deep crust. Fortunately, sample of melts can be entrapped as melt inclusion (MI) into growing igneous minerals in crystalizing magma chamber. After the entrapment, the crystal works as an insulating capsule from the external magmatic environment. Researchers have started to use MI because they provide some advantages in respect to the classical whole rock approach to petrological studies. One of the most important advantages is that MI often represent sample of a deep and non-degassed melt (glass) available at Earth's surface. This dissertation is a compilation of four publications produced during six years of research and is addressed to give a contribution in understanding the volatile evolution in magmatic systems and also to improve the present understanding of information that can be obtained using the melt inclusions technique. In the first chapter, I present an alternative interpretation of H2O-CO2 trends obtained from MI. In this study, we demonstrate that these trends can be due to post entrapment crystallization on the wall of the MI and not to magma ascent. This alternative view is more realistic especially for cases where in the same phenocrysts MI show strongly different CO2 concentrations. In the second chapter, I present a study to test for the MI reliability in recording volatile concentrations. We used the approach of the melt inclusion assemblage (MIA) that consists of analyzing groups of MI presumably entrapped at the same time and, thus, at same chemical and physical conditions. The results show that most of the MIA studied show consistent volatile concentrations corroborating the reliability of the MI technique. CO2 shows the highest degrees of variability and we have assessed this behavior mostly to C-contamination in the surface of the sample. The third chapter is a study case (the Solchiaro eruption in Southern Italy) that shows the potential uses of MI to understanding the volatile evolution. I present a model showing the dynamic of the magma based on MI. This study also discusses the origin of anomalous MI and which MI provide the best information. The final chapter is dedicated to test the applicability of the new Linkam TS1400XY heating stage. I was able to show how this new microthermometric tool is capable of homogenizing MI at high temperature and to quench MI to a homogeneous glass state
(2012). Studies of volatile evolution in magmatic systems using melt inclusions. (Tesi di dottorato, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2012).
Studies of volatile evolution in magmatic systems using melt inclusions
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by Dan MacIntosh
Rupert Hine is not a household name, unless artists like Tina Turner and Bob Geldof are residents. That's because Turner and Geldof are just two of the stars Hine has produced over the years. In the '80s, he had much to do with the success of folks like the Fixx and Howard Jones, to name but a few.
Songfacts was built on the idea of learning about the songs from those who created them, and Rupert has been crafting classics for 40 years as a songwriter, producer and musician. It was our pleasure to discuss his career highlights, as well as the next stage in music publishing - something Rupert calls "rights management." The idea is to nurture and empower songwriters so by the time a song enters the studio, it's already well beyond good.
Dan MacIntosh (Songfacts): I was looking at your Web site and all the different people that you've produced, and I don't imagine somebody gets into music to become a producer. That's something that happens along the line. Was your initial desire to become a rock star and then production became something that you discovered?
Rupert Hine: Exactly. Yeah, it was that second alternative. I never wanted to be a rock star. I was making my own albums and loved the idea of communicating passionately through music. The idea of that being in any way a parallel to a rock star was not really in my mind. But I've always loved the idea of painting pictures with sound, and my passion was definitely songwriting. So I've done 12 albums as an artist myself, and those albums of my own, half as songwriter and record maker, have always fueled all the other productions that I've done. Most artists that asked me to produce them, it was off the back of them liking my own albums, which are obviously nowhere near as famous as most of the people that I've produced, but nonetheless have a good sort of core audience, and it's often amongst the artists themselves.
Songfacts: You said that of the singles you produced, one of your favorites is "Better Be Good To Me" with Tina Turner. What was it like to produce Tina Turner, and what did you learn from the experience from her?
Hine: I worked on all three of her big albums in the '80s, in fact. Some tracks on all three of them. So I've worked with her a lot. And she's just truly extraordinary, really. And I'm not one of those people that just talks up all the artists I've worked with. In her case, she's extremely special and I've never ever witnessed such a one-take wonder as Tina Turner. And that's because she approaches things in such a diligent way and she "owns the song" - that's the phrase she used to use, which basically means she sings along with it at home. I give her a songwriter's demo and then she'll sing it in her key. And then the point where she sings along with the tape and she feels she's got it, it's now her song. Then she'll call me up and say, "Okay, it's my song now. I'm ready."
Then I literally go and pick her up, take her to the studio, and with not even a cup of tea or any sort of small talk, she'll go straight up to the microphone and give it one take. She'd be professionally happy to give you as many takes as you'd like, but you don't need it. The one take is just extraordinary. And if you ask her how she does that, she says, "I do it the same way I do all my live vocals. When I go up and stand in front of a quarter of a million people in Brazil and sing at one concert, each song I only sing once."
Songfacts: She's going to give it her absolute best, because in concert, she only has one chance.
Hine: Yep. She's very much a live artist. Her passion is singing in front of people. She was never a great fan of the whole process of studio recording. And not in a sense that it was something she would get into. It was something that was plainly necessary and she would enjoy it, but only as far as capturing that moment. So the very first time I did it, it was quite nerve-wracking, because I had no idea it was going to be quite that literally one-shot. I did ask her for a second take the very first time that I ever recorded her, on the basis of just covering my nuts in case we got a technical error, was the way that I put it. And that was the only reason I needed to do it. The second take was almost imperceptibly as good. But almost - meaning it was staggeringly good, but you could tell all the everything-ness of it was all in that first four minutes.
Songfacts: The other group that you worked with, the Fixx, you list quite a number of their songs among your favorites. Those songs jumped out on the radio because of their production. How do you recall that experience, working with the Fixx? Would you say it was collaborative as well as being the man behind the boards producing their songs?
Hine: Very collaborative. With the Fixx, more than any other band that I've worked with before or since, I always felt that I was becoming a bit like the sixth member of the band. I would be there at all their rehearsals and we'd sort lots of the arrangemental ideas, and even, to some extent, the production I did would be sorted out in the rehearsal room, which is not something you see very often these days. So all five of them came through the songs, we'd make all the basic changes there, and all the improvements on song structure, and all the way through that one thinking in terms of sound and what we may or may not try in the studio.
So then moving into the studio, one could concentrate very early on the coolest way of recording things. And my engineering half of the team, Stephen W. Tayler, was just extraordinarily brilliant with being a sound craftsman and an originator. So working side by side, it was a strong team. I was able to concentrate on the arrangements and the performances and song structures and Steve's very, very, very capable mind and techniques took care of the sound side. Every song, we dreamt up something different or intriguing. Steve was brilliantly adept at sorting out what I was really getting at. And I still work with Steve, and he's still brilliant at it. But this was in the relatively early days in our association and both of us were very excited by what we were doing with the six guys and we were all sort of growing together.
Songfacts: I especially think of the song "Stand or Fall," there's so much that's going on in that song for something that's a pop hit. Do you remember the session for recording that one, and what stands out in your mind from that session?
Hine: "Stand or Fall" was always a lovely composition. And I knew from the very beginning of the first rehearsal that it was all going to be down to just these two guitar chords. And they are the two chords that open the song by way of an intro. But they're also the same two chords that permeate the entire track. They just played the two separate chords that really needed to stand out and be a hook in themselves, not just be two chords in a pop song. They really needed to stand out as two sonic moments that you would hopefully get tingles. And I tried to get them to have this sort of hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck quality just being played on a guitar.
But of course, to devise that, we spent quite a few hours working on how we were going to create this unusual impression from sounds like a guitar player just playing two sprangy chords, when in fact it was quite cleverly crafted by a few tracks and a few different methodologies. It was constructed to produce that effect. I remember that most of all. And also the singing from Cy (Curnin) became a definitive vocal performance, the backing vocals particularly on the outro became a hook in themselves. It sounds like backing vocal, which became also a kind of… not a template, but certainly a subplot for lots of the production with the Fixx - I was always working very closely with Cy on completely fresh backing vocal ideas that came about during the recording process. But "Stand or Fall" is still one of my most favorite production tracks, there's no doubt about it.
Songfacts: Are you surprised that they didn't have a more successful career?
Hine: We did have a lot of success throughout the whole '80s. I produced four albums with them all back-to-back through the '80s. And because they stood between pop and rock music, they were neither or they were both. And it really depended on the way you came at it. But what I wanted them to have was for us to find, with the production side of it, a way of keeping the sound itself feeling aggressive. Finding new ways of doing an aggressive guitar sound without the guitar being in any way distorted or classically old school rock.
And we came up with this very aggressive bitey but sort of shiny guitar, which was very different than any other bands at that time. And that certainly was a huge part of the band's success. I mean, the amount of interest that went into the guitarist was huge - quite rightfully, I think. Also the whole production technique we came up with was very new at that time. And still in a way sounds unique.
But going back to your question, the fact that they were stuck between pop and rock music, by the time the '80s ended, it became very difficult for that non-genre to exist. There were other bands in the '80s - bands like Simple Minds - that hovered between those same schools as well, and all those bands' days became quickly numbered, partly because the record companies insisted that they became either definitely pop or definitely rock. They were no longer happy to have this sort of no man's land in between. And that, to me, was a problem. That's when they fell from the top end of the charts. But they're still going as a band, they're still making records. My friend Steve is mixing an album with them as we speak, right now. So although those records don't appear in the top end of the charts anymore, they're still bought by the fans, and they still gig with the completely original lineup.
Songfacts: You worked with Howard Jones, who couldn't be more different than Tina Turner or the Fixx. I remember seeing him open for the Eurythmics, and he was pretty much a one-man band. Was it a challenge to work with him in the studio and try to fill out his sound a bit from the live performances?
Hine: Not really. I mean, I guess that's exactly what we were doing anyway. But I don't recall it ever being a challenge. It was always very exciting, very intriguing. Howard always came with most of the arrangement ideas in his head already and most of the time actually being played, as well, between his various keyboard lines and various keyboards. And because I was also a multi-keyboardist myself, and used to making records out of keyboard sounds at that time and making it work, that was probably the reason it wasn't a challenge. But the idea was that it should be at this very strong pop end of songwriting, which I wasn't doing. I was doing sort of dark and mysterious almost soundtrack-like work on my own albums at that time, and Howard was really full-on pop songs. But his songwriting and his arrangements or techniques were very, very musical - he's one of the most musical artists I've ever worked with. Classically trained, he was, in fact, a piano teacher when he was making his first record, and had been for years. So he's extremely skilled, and that came across and made the whole recording process that much more fun, particularly because it was really full-on pop music.
These days, Hine is excited about the YouBloom Song Contest, which is an annual internet-based songwriting contest. He is joined each year by founder Phil Harrington, A&R man Nigel Grainge and Bob Geldof in this exciting search for the next great songwriter.
Songfacts: How did you get involved in the YouBloom song contest?
Hine: I've known Phil Harrington - who's the main man behind it - for many years, and that contact has been through Bob Geldof. I produced many of Bob's records over the years, so Bob and I are good friends. And he introduced me to Phil Harrington many years ago when it was still just called Liberty Bloom, which is the parent company behind the YouBloom venture. So when they suddenly needed more active involvement from other people with experience in the business, he asked me to get involved and, as I knew Phil already, was a natural.
Songfacts: Have you discovered some great songwriters through the process?
Hine: It was funny. It was interesting, at the beginning I would say the general quality was much lower than I had anticipated. With the Garage Band style of programming which makes everything so easy, it does seem like everybody figures they can make something sound like a record, so they do. But there's absolutely no point to it whatsoever. There was a lot of that around, which was a bit discouraging to start with. But as things progressed and towards the end of the 2010 year, there was a sudden buildup of people that were more interesting and were trying harder.
Songfacts: What have you been working on recently and what can we expect to hear from you?
Hine: Well, I've spent the last two years working on things. A couple of years ago I did an album for the Dalai Lama, which was the third most downloaded album on the planet in August of 2008. It was called The Art of Peace. But I produced some of the tracks directly and executive produced the whole project. It was basically a combination of artists like Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Sting, all kinds of artists that came together and came up with new versions of songs with a lyrical context of peace. Putting that project together was a ginormous task. That was great fun. I mean, I don't think much happened to it on the hard release, but the digital release was spectacular.
Since then I've worked with two or three new young artists that have spent enormous amounts of time working on the business side of life and trying to get all kinds of new models together. I have a new company with BMG Rights Management called the Original Song Company. I think this is probably the first time I've mentioned it. It will be announced imminently.
Songfacts: Is it fun to do new things and experience different ends of the business?
Hine: It is. Particularly rights management, which has replaced the old phrase "publishing," in essence. The background is in fees for publishing. But the idea of signing the writing entity, the actual songwriters themselves, is far and away the thing I'm most interested in. It all starts with the song. And I want to work closely with new younger writers and help mould them into really palpable communicative writers, and to work at a very high level of expectation in the writing. People spend hours and days getting studio recordings to be the way they want them, but that same attention to detail does not go into the songwriting. And I feel at this point we really need to make songs be more extraordinary, more outstanding, more breathtaking, and not just settle, which most people do, with a song that just sounds really good. Really good isn't good enough, we want to get way beyond really good. We want to find songs that are truly great and outstanding songs. And then the production of those, or any way we approach making a record out of a song that's that good is just so much fun, because you're doing so little. If it's that good, you do the very minimum on it and it's going to be outstanding, or you can flesh it out and make it incredible. The options are enormous with a song that's that good.
So that's really the philosophy behind that, which will be announced very shortly. The You Bloom activity is a parallel part there, too, because with You Bloom music, they're looking at distributing recorded music, as well. They're taking on some bands, finding new writers and new material through the You Bloom Web site, and it's a combination of artists and friends. The plan in 2012 is that You Bloom will have the means to take that recorded music and run with it, and to have our own piano editing and a full equivalent of all the mechanisms to distribute music in this day and age, rather than seeding the talent and then passing it on.
Songfacts: Well, I think that kind of brings us full circle. And it's exciting to me to hear that you're still excited about songs.
Hine: My pleasure. I have to say that I've been looking at Songfacts myself. I've been asked to do a TV show for the States that's essentially a program based on my interviews with songwriters. In essence it will be kind of the story behind specific songs, pulling on my 40 years of record making with different kinds of songwriters. I'm in the process of working through some of the initial material. And your Songfacts Web site has been more than a touch useful.
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Gregory from ConnecticutThis was really a great insight. Thanks for publishing this... uh rights managing?
Andy from The Hague, NetherlandsIn the '70s, the first album by Rupert's band Quantum Jump was brilliant - it's worth tracking down for the clever hit single The Lone Ranger and the guitar wizardry of No American Starship, which was, I think, a poke at Paul Kantner & co.
David S from Miami, FlThanks for the interview of this great producer, and serious songwriter and musician in his own right. Rupert Hine's 1982 album "Waving Not Drowing" is worth tracking down - it's amazing stuff.
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Now you didn't think that Amber could be involved in two New Jersey shows in two days without #1 O'Neal fan Ed Darcey being in the stands to root her on at both venues, did you?! Today, Ed reports on Amber's WSU King and Queen of the Ring appearance...
Yesterday we were reminded of how well Alicia had done this past weekend for WSU/NWS and were made aware of the fact that Amber O'Neal had lost her title bout vs. Mercedes Martinez. The next night, Ms. O'Neal had planned to start a new winning streak at the WSU/NWS King and Queen of the Ring Tournament. Unfortunately for Amber and her partner, Bison Bravado, a veteran of the King and Queen tourney, they were matched against some very formidable opponents: a true fan favorite and an ECW original, Balls Mahoney, and his partner, former WWE champ and recent WSU Hall of Famer, Jazz, who was none too thrilled at having been O'Neal's 6th WSU victim!
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While Alicia had a remarkable weekend, this was a weekend Ms. O'Neal would rather forget. But she has vowed to gain a measure of revenge in June...though she may have started early by costing Jazz a place in the King and Queen finals later that same night.
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The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2016 - The List (+Spotify Playlist)
For the benefit of those who like cold, hard data, here is The Metaphorical Boat's top songs of 2016 in easy to digest list form -
1. Bear's Den - Auld Wives
2. The Strumbellas - Spirits
3. Teenage Fanclub - I'm In Love
4. Meilyr Jones - How to Recognise a Work of Art
5. Draper ft Prides - Break Over You
6. Ciaran Lavery - Return to Form
7. Turin Brakes - Keep Me Around
8. INHEAVEN- Baby's Alright
9. Anteros - Breakfast
10. Town of Saints - Short Circuit Breakdown
11. Suede - What I'm Trying To Tell You
12. M83 feat. Mai Lan - Go!
13. Ten Fé - Elodie
14. The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra
15. Walking On Cars - Speeding Cars
16. The Divine Comedy - Catherine The Great
17. Starwalker - Holidays
18. The Wood Burning Savages - We Love You
19. SOULS - Bad Girl
20. Catholic Action - L.U.V
21. Lucius - Born Again Teen
22. Courtney Barnett - Three Packs a Day
23. A Northern Light - Paranoia
24. Rukhsana Merrise - Money
25. Flowers - Pull My Arm
26. Half Japanese Half Muscle - Loose Fitting Girls
27. Porter Robinson ft Madeon - Shelter
28. Helen Love - A Boy from Wales Called Gareth Bale
29. Bob Mould - Voices in My Head
30. Radiohead - Burn the Witch
31. James - Nothing But Love
32. Jagwar Ma - O B 1
33. Enigma ft Aquilo - Amen
34. RADWIMPS - Zenzenzense
35. Paul Simon - Wristband
36. Nada Surf - Cold To See Clear
37. Wild Beasts - Get My Bang
38. Stop the wheel - Shape Up
39. The Zolas - Swooner
40. Hello Bear - We Held Hands Once, But Then She Got Embarrassed
41. Ward Thomas - Guilty Flowers
42. BABYMETAL - KARATE
43. Biffy Clyro - Re-arrange
44. Christine and the Queens - Tilted
45. Glass Animals - Life Itself
46. Darren Hayman - I've Been a Bad Bad Boy
47. Yakima - Burn
48. Brash Isaac - In The Dark
49. Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold
50. David Bowie - Lazarus
And for those of you who do that whole Spotify thing, here is a playlist of all 50 songs in order of awesomeness -
Labels: Top Songs of 2016
The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2016 - Number One
But I swam across the ocean to find your memory,
A trace of all you've left behind.
And the Auld Wives swore that you were born to die
Without a child for to call out your name
And so, The Metaphorical Boat's Top Song of 2016 is "Auld Wives", by London based duo Bear's Den. "Auld Wives" takes its name from a group of rocks found in Scotland (funnily enough, quite close to the town of Bearsden), and lyrically the song is about band member Andrew Davie's grandfather, who suffered from Alzheimer's.
Musically, the song combines the modern folk style that marked the band's debut album with a surprising 80s style synth-pop sound, and despite the genres being quite disparate, it works incredible effectively on this track.
So congratulations to Bear's Den, hit "play" on the video below, and enjoy 2016's best song -
The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2016 - 5-2
We're really close to finding out just what The Metaphorical Boat's Top Song of 2016 really is. We hope you're as excited as we are to find out just what song has made it to #1. But before we get there, let's find out what fantastically brilliant songs ended up at numbers 5 through to 2 on our countdown -
We may have been rather hyperbolic and/or incorrect back in April when we insisted that "Break Over You" was going to be a #1 hit single. Although in fairness, it wasn't the worst incorrect prediction to be made in 2016. Still, it made it to #5 in our countdown, which is something, I guess. The Draper/Prides collaboration is a wonderfully powerful synth-pop single that gives you the same kick as 2 litres of Red Bull injected directly into your eyeballs.
There haven't been many breakthrough artists in the chamber-pop genre for many years now, which is somewhat explicable, given the large expense involved in hiring and touring a full orchestra for the purposes of recording an album and/or touring isn't as easy as it was 20 years ago when there was more money available for developing emerging artists (indeed, it's not just an issue with newer artists - when 90s chamber-pop group My Life Story reconvened earlier this year, they ditched the orchestra altogether).
Perhaps that's why "How To Recognise a Work of Art" by ex-Race Horses member Meilyr Jones was such a delight. A cacophony of instruments over Mr Jones' crooning on the subject of the valuation of pictures and ornaments. It helped to catapult the parent album to the Welsh Music Prize, and we are reliably informed that they never stop playing it in Starbucks.
We're always going to love anything that comes out of the minds of Teenage Fanclub, and "I'm In Love", their first single in six years, was no exception. Like most of their post "Songs From Northern Britain" material, it's a lot less noisy and more subdued, yet still has all those qualities that make us love the band - the sunkissed harmonies, the jangly guitars, and that unbridled optimism that shines through.
And the song that narrowly misses out on our top spot is "Spirits" by Canadian band The Strumbellas. This was another song that we were absolutely sure would become a massive hit in 2016, although despite millions of YouTube streams, high placings on specialist radio in the United States, and playlisting on Radio X over here, it never really took off like it should have done. Still, "Spirits" is a spectacularly poppy indie-folk tune with a rousing chorus that you just cannot help but sing along to.
The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2016 - 10-6
We're into the top 10 now, and the creme-de-la-creme of all the songs that were released in 2016. We now have the songs ranked 10-6 in our countdown, alongside a few words why each of these songs are rather great -
We kick off the top 10 with Dutch/Finnish indie-folk band Town Of Saints. "Short Circuit Breakdown" is a song that combines boogie-woogie rock with stadium-sized choruses and soaring strings to create a rock-hopping masterpiece.
No Place Like This by Town of Saints
We loved "Breakfast" when we first heard it back in April, and loved it even more when we saw Anteros open their set with it at The Great Escape. A delicious indie-pop tune about being kept up late at night by a partner for all the wrong reasons.
8. INHEAVEN - Baby's Alright
On "Baby's Alright", post-punk band INHEAVEN pull off that great musical trick of hiding rage-filled, angry, vitriolic lyrical verses around a rousing sing-along chorus that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the song in question. Favourite moment in the song is the 2nd chorus, when the guitars double up and the song soars into the stratosphere.
Turin Brakes are one of those bands that have for years been in my category of acts that we feel we would absolutely love if we made an effort to explore their music further, but haven't yet set aside the time to do so (see also: Cold War Kids). Well, in 2016 we made the first tentative steps towards that after falling for love with "Keep Me Around". There's something about that acoustic guitar hook and soaring strings that keeps me listening to the song time and time again. Who knows? This might be the start of a beautiful friendship.
It almost feels like an artist is tempting fate when he names his comeback single "Return To Form", especially when it comes off the back of a highly streamed, successful debut, although Northern Ireland Music Prize winner Ciaran Lavery need not have fretted, as the song marked a new high watermark for him. It's certainly the most radio-friendly song that Ciaran has released to date ( if you exclude the polite f-bombs on the album version), and calls to mind "I'm Not The Only One" by Sam Smith, although with the choirboy swooning replaced with Lavery's trademark world-weary ragged vocals. Definitely not a return to form, but a strengthening of it.
The Metaphorical Boat's Top Songs of 2016 - 15-11
It's getting more intense now, as we approach the songs ranked 15 to 11 in the countdown. We've got some Irish emotional-rock, a sample-happy band back after a 15 year hiatus, last year's chart-toppers, French electro, and of course, the greatest band of all time -
We are getting even more serious now (not that we've ever been that serious, mind you), as we enter the top 20, with songs from 20-16 in our countdown. We've got some rollicking good garage-rock, some trip-hop with samples with 1930s blues, face melting rock from Derry, a side-project from 1/2 of Air, and Neil Hannon being his whimsical, sarcastic self -
If you thought the music on offer in between numbers 50 to 26 were amazing, well you'd better get yourself strapped in, because the music is only going to get a whole lot better, as we enter the songs in the top half of our 50 favourite songs of 2016.
Next up are songs from 25-21, which includes luscious indie-pop, alternative hip-hop, Belfast based drum & bass rock, an ode of noodles, and some powerful alt-rock -
Indietracks Compilation 2016 by Flowers
Paranoia by A Northern Light
We're almost at the half-way point in The Metaphorical Boat's Top songs of 2016, as we count down the songs we ranked 30 to 26 on our list. Incidentally, this particular section features our two favourite music videos of the year, from Porter Robinson & from Radiohead. It also features an alt-rock legend, a surprisingly good Euro 2016 song, and some great electro-pop -
We're coming along nicely now, as we enter the songs ranked 35-31 in this countdown. We've got rock legend, a song taken from the best film of the year, Your Name, a collaboration between a chart topper from 1990 and a blogger's favourite, psychedelic rock & Brit-rock legends -
33. Enigma ft. Aquilo - Amen
Numbers 40 through to 36 in this part of the countdown next. Contained within this golden five is some confectionary-based pop-punk, Canadian indie-pop, Italian multi-tracked melodies, artsy Kendalites, and some alternative-rock legends -
After our first five songs in the countdown, the next five naturally follow. Because it would be rather silly if we went from 50-46 straight to 15-11, wouldn't it? Indeed it would.
So songs from 45-41 in our countdown next. Contained within are some art-rockers, a French artist whose captivating choreography captivated so many of us this year, one of the biggest British rock bands about, a Japanese band who've brought the worlds of metal and J-pop together, and the leading lights of contemporary British country -
Time for the annual listageddon here at The Metaphorical Boat. Over the next few days we will be counting down the blog's top 50 songs of 2016. There will be songs that have featured on the blog, songs that didn't feature on the blog, songs that have graced our lovely Spotify playlists over the last 12 months, and songs that really should have featured. But regardless, they are all awesome, and hopefully there will be a few songs here that will float your Metaphorical Boat.
We start with the songs from 50-46 on the list, which includes the final single from one of the greatest songwriters of the last 50 years, Glaswegian indie-rock, a young Northern Irish upstart, some throwback balladry, and...a song that took part in this year's Eurovision Contest!?
Bad, Bad Boy by Darren Hayman and Papernut Cambridge
The Metaphorical Boat Spotify Playlist - November 2016
For those of you who like your musical recommendations in playlist-able Spotify form,
The Metaphorical Boat posts a selection of songs that we have been enjoying over the past few weeks, new songs that we haven't written about but are enjoying nonetheless, and a few older but fantastic tracks that are currently floating our Metaphorical Boat.
Below you can find our playlist of songs that we really enjoyed in November 2016. Although we usually post this every two months, given that December is usually thrown over to year-end listageddon, we've condensed the list to just what we discovered in November time. If you like what you hear, or just want another playlist to add to your growing list of playlists, then we really hope that you'll take the time to visit the playlist on Spotify and give it a follow. You never know, your new favourite song of all time could be somewhere on this playlist!
This month's playlist is shorter than others from this year, but no less brilliant, featuring songs from established artists like The xx & Enigma (the latter in collaboration with the highly rated Aquilo), songs from recent discoveries to us, like Henry Jamison & Earwig, and local acts Hannah McPhillimy & The Jepettos. Plus, some great songs from Japanese artists courtesy of Shiggy Jr. & RADWIMPS, the latter of which wrote the theme song for my favourite film of the year, Your Name. Lots of great music from lots of great people for your ear-based amusement.
Labels: Spotify
Hannah McPhillimy - Ruins
It has been a while - nearly four years in fact - since we last mentioned local singer-songwriter Hannah McPhillimy on these pages. Not that she's been silent the past few years mind you - she joined synth-pop band Go Wolf, whom we've talked about quite a bit, and has still been plugging away on her own material, most notably the "Disappear Here" EP released in 2015 in collaboration with author Jan Carson.
Her most recent release is "Wind Machine", which came out in June. Produced by Julie Mclarnon, who's worked with Neutral Milk Hotel & King Creosote among others, the E.P mixes folk and jazz influences into a package topped off by Hannah's plaintive and honest vocals.
Taken from the E.P is "Ruins", which for lack of a better term, is the most accessible song on the E.P, with it's familiar chord structure and emotive and endearing chorus, so it's no surprise to see that it receive the video treatment. The video sees Hannah singing in the forest, interspersed with scenes of what can only be described as the most intensive game of Jenga ever played. We were under the impression that the video is a pastiche of the chess game from the Ingmar Bergan film The Seventh Seal, although we've been since informed that it's most likely a coincidence.
The "Wind Machine" E.P from Hannah McPhillimy is out now.
Wind Machine by Hannah McPhillimy
Labels: folk, jazz, Northern Ireland, singer-songwriter
The Metaphorical Boat Spotify Playlist - September/October 2016
For those of you who like your musical recommendations in playlist-able Spotify form, on a bimonthly basis The Metaphorical Boat posts a selection of songs that we have been enjoying over the prior eight weeks or so, containing songs that we've written about, new songs that we haven't written about but are enjoying nonetheless, and a few older but fantastic tracks that are currently floating our Metaphorical Boat.
Below you can find our playlist of songs that we really enjoyed in September and October 2016. If you like what you hear, or just want another playlist to add to your growing list of playlists, then we really hope that you'll take the time to visit the playlist on Spotify and give it a follow. You never know, your new favourite song of all time could be somewhere on this playlist!
This month's playlist feature songs from established artists like Teenage Fanclub, My Life Story, Turin Brakes & Jagwar Ma, songs from newer bands such as Catholic Action, The Rhythm Method, The Shimmer Band & JR Green, and local acts The Wood Burning Savages & Son of The Hound. Plus, now that Spotify has extended into Japan, we've got some great tunes from that country, with electro disco-jazz from Lotus Land, and ska-punk from Gotch. Lots of great music from lots of great people for your ear-based amusement.
Blisss - Porcelain/Chalk Air
You've got to love it when an artist picks a name for himself that encapsulates the sound of their music so perfectly. So when it comes to the music produced by London based Tom Greenwood, the moniker he chose for the project, Blisss, couldn't be a better fit (the additional "s" in the name presumably there for improved Google-ability).
Blisss have released two singles to date. The first, "Chalk Air", was released at the end up August and has picked up quite a bit of love from the blogosphere for its psych-pop sound. It's the follow-up single however, "Porcelain", which has really impressed us. The song is a powerful, enrapturing song that reminds us strongly of Primal Scream at their most blissed out (for lack of a better term), or more contemporaneous influences like Jagwar Ma, plus you really can't say no to a towering guitar coda that would make "The Four Horsemen" proud.
Labels: London, psychedelic
Northern Ireland Music Prize 2016 - Who's The Most Popular?
As we mentioned last week, the nominees for the 2016 Northern Ireland Music Prize have been announced. To recap, here are the twelve albums to make the cut for this year's prize -
The Bonnevilles – Arrow Pierce My Heart
Ciaran Lavery – Let Bad In
David C Clements – The Longest Day In History
Documenta – Drone Pop #1
exmagician – Scan The Blue
Foy Vance – The Wild Swan
Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision
Jealous of the Birds – Parma Violets
Michael Mormecha – LOFi LiFE
Ports – The Devil Is A Songbird
Ryan Vail – For Every Silence
Sea Pinks – Soft Days
As has been the case for the NI Music Prize the past few years, I decided to do a bit of number crunching using data gleamed from available resources to see which artists and albums nominated are the most popular. Due to its near ubiquity in the streaming world, as well as the fact that it makes its data about listening readily available for anyone to read, I will be relying solely on information taken from the world's most popular music streaming service, Spotify.
First, I wanted to find out which individual track taken from the 12 nominated albums is the most popular. Below you can find the most popular song from each of the nominated artists, as well as a ranking from most to least popular -
Most popular individual track from each nominated album on Spotify (streams):
(Snapshot from 21/09/16):
She Burns
Miss Misanthrope
exmagician
Kiss That Wealth Goodbye
Reticence
Sea Pinks
Love As a Ghost
Ryan Vail
David C Clements
My Dear Mother
The Bonnevilles
No Law In Lurgan
Michael Mormecha
Less than 1,000
(For comparison's sake, one of the most popular songs of 2016, "One Dance" by Drake, has been streamed over 807 million times)
As I'd somewhat expected, the artist whose most streamed song tops the rankings is former NI Music Prize winner Foy Vance with the lead single from his album, "She Burns", which has amassed over 3 million plays for the track taken from his Ed Sheeran-signed album. It's also unsurprising to see Ciaran Lavery ranking #2 with "Okkervil River", the only other artist nominated to have a song collected over 1 million streams to date. Lavery's recent success has been largely as a result of his music becoming incredibly and unexpectedly popular on the platform over the past few years, to the extent that he even recorded a live album for them. What's more surprising is to see Jealous of The Birds at #3 on the list - having only started recording music barely a year ago and being quite an unknown quantity even when the album was released this year, it is still surprising to see her song "Miss Misanthrope" outstream the top songs from more established names like Girls Names, Sea Pinks & exmagician (albeit under a different name for the latter).
Soft Days by Sea Pinks
To show just how ubiquitous Spotify has become for artists, this year the top 7 artists all have at least one track which broke through the 100k stream barrier, compared to just one from the list in 2015. The others have at least 1 song with a five-figure stream count, with the exception of Michael Mormecha's "Lofi Life", which fails to get a single song even to the four-figure amount on Spotify.
Of course, as I mentioned last year, there are a few disclaimers to go with this data - this is just a snapshot from a certain point in time before the contest - for all I know, Michael Mormecha could get a song featured on a popular Spotify playlist tomorrow, gain 30,000 streams overnight and parachute into the top 10, so this shouldn't be treated as scientifically rigorous. Also, I have only included versions of songs taken from the parent album on Spotify, so I haven't taken into account other versions of any of the songs (There is a single version of Ports' "Ancient Wave" which has been streamed over 130k times, but as it seems to be slightly different from the album version I have excluded it from the above table. If included, Ports would have moved from 6th to 4th).
After looking at individual tracks, I decided to see how popular each of the albums are as a whole on Spotify. As each of the albums have different track numbers, I thought that the fairest methodology to decide which album is the most popular as a whole is to take the same amount of tracks streamed from each album, then divide it by itself to get an average amount of streams overall.
Therefore, I picked the six most popular songs from each album (6 were chosen, given that the album with the least amount of songs, "Drone Pop #1", contain 8), added up the totals, then divided by six to give an average amount of album points for each. The results of my findings were as follows -
Most popular nominated album on Spotify (stream average):
The Wild Swan
Let Bad In
Parma Violets
Scan The Blue
Arms Around A Vision
Soft Days
The Devil Is A Songbird
The Longest Day In History
Drone Pop #1
For Every Silence
Arrow Pierce My Heart
LOFi LiFE
*All songs on this album have been played less than 1000 times on Spotify, so for the purposes of working out an average, I assigned all tracks a play amount of 500.
(For comparison's sake, one of the most popular albums so far in the same period, "25" by Adele, has an average of nearly 163 million based on this methodology).
So once again, Foy Vance & Ciaran Lavery find themselves well ahead of the rest of the pack, with album stream averages of well over over half a million for each of them. The top five remain identical to the highest track table, and there's a couple of shifts around the mid-table positions (David C Clements is #8 in this table compared to #10 in the single track rankings, which would seem to imply that more people are likely to listen to his album in full compared to his peers), whilst Michael Mormecha remains firmly anchored to the bottom position.
LOFi LiFE by michael mormecha
What is notable about this year's averages is that last year's average appear to be lower than those of this year, even though last year's list had more higher profile names. I'm guessing that the fact that most of the names on the list have managed to find themselves on some popular Spotify playlists has really helped (particularly Jealous of The Birds, which explains the explosion in popularity in such a short space of time). It seems even getting onto a playlist for an upcoming festival can be quite beneficial (quite a few of these artists have managed to amass pretty hefty streams from these self-made playlists), so one can never underestimate the power of the playlist, regardless of its size.
Once again, I should stress that due to the nature of the working, this is not entirely scientific, given that it only takes into account the top 6 streamed songs on Spotify. It also doesn't take into account when the album was released - a few of these albums were released near the beginning of the cut-off period for the prize, whilst others were released much more recently.
Still, I hope that this gives an interesting overview as to which album nominated for the prize has the largest number of fans, and therefore might give some indication as to who we might see take home the prize come November 11th. To give you a flavour of the nominees, here's a Spotify playlist of the most popular song (as of today) from each of the twelve nominated albums -
The Northern Ireland Music Prize will be awarded in the Mandela Hall on November 11th. Ports, Jealous of The Birds & Girls Names will perform at the ceremony, as will Ash, who will receive the Oh Yeah Legend Award & perform their album "1977" in full.
Labels: Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Music Prize
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