This track is on the Alan Lauris EP 'Q3 (the Quest part 3)'!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_D4H9NXDLo

Download or buy CD here: https://alanlauris.bandcamp.com/album/q3-the-quest-part-3-ep

Music and Lyrics by Alan Lauris

You dedicate your life to creation
You dedicate your life to the best 
You dedicate your life to your nation 
You dedicate your life to the quest 

A life’s a collection of moments
And every moment ‘s all right
Surely you don’t want to miss one
So you dedicate, you dedicate your life

You dedicate your life, You dedicate you life
Every moment again and again you dedicate your life.

It’s all about paying attention 
It’s all about looking around
When you dedicate your life to the sunrise
Then you dedicate your life to a sound 

You dedicate your life, You dedicate you life
Every moment again and again you dedicate your life.

Every moment again and again and again and again and again and again…
You dedicate your life!
Every moment again and again and again and again and again and again…
You dedicate your life!

You dedicate your life to your business
You dedicate your life to your car
You dedicate your life to the dishes
You dedicate your life to the stars

It’s all a about being connected
When you dedicate your life to the light
You dedicate your life to your smartphone
Then you dedicate your life to your wife

You dedicate your life, You dedicate your life
Every moment again and again you dedicate your life
Every moment again and again you dedicate your life
Every moment again and again you dedicate your life

You dedicate your life to the weather, the lonely, a sportscar, politics, the good cause, a boys band, the future, your music, the helpless, the laundry, your children, the answer, your passion, a journey, a phonecall, your breakfast, a party, a blackbird, a program

Dedicate

Het Voorzetselkoor strikes again! 5 jaar na de hit ‘Hattemerbroek’  komt het koor met ‘Kapot!’, een voorzetselrijk nummer geïnspireerd op een voorval dat daadwerkelijk in Hattemerbroek plaatsvond. De videoclip is opgenomen tijden een videovergadering van het koor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZggVirgD0Y

Kapot!

Het bouwen van meer woningen leidt tot een grotere vraag naar mobiliteit, die ons wegennet niet aankan. Uitbreiding is geen oplossing vanwege ontbrekende ruimte én omdat het leidt tot een ongezonde leefomgeving. Mobiliteitshubs, waarbij ov, fiets- en wandelpaden en deelvervoer gebundeld zijn, bieden uitkomst. Er zijn talloze studies gedaan en visies opgesteld, maar de realisatie van mobiliteitshubs komt maar mondjesmaat op gang. Hoe komen we tot een versnelling? Hoe zetten we woorden om in gerichte daden? Wat en wie is daarvoor nodig? 
 
In deze podcastaflevering van Samen koers bepalen gaat Alan Hoekstra, senior adviseur duurzame mobiliteit bij Rijkswaterstaat, en Bas Scholten, procesmanager en adviseur duurzame mobiliteit bij APPM, in gesprek over het waarmaken van de belofte van regionale mobiliteitshubs.

#17 Hoe regionale mobiliteitshubs wél van de grond komen

Perhaps it was 2007, I started a moleskine as I have done for centuries, but this time without writing any dates, and mostly consisting of drawings. It was the year I first conceived Dream Society, graduated from art school, became self employed, lived in Battersea in a house with green walls, somewhere in a world beyond time and space; spending hours writing the most extravagant colourful websites using only a text editor, creating experimental films in which I cut out each frame by hand, making music with house hold objects and discovering a world of books that opened my mind and being to infinite possibilities, pondering about the nature of reality, consciousness and existence. My pals and I would go to the supermarket at 2:45am; I wrote songs on an old ships piano I had to tune anew every day, and a harmonium in the key of not-quite-Bb. 

Sometimes I had visions, like lucid daydreams, or frames of future memories: I once saw myself in a flowery dressing gown, writing books, in a flat with green walls in Amsterdam.  Another one had me play on Top of the Pops. Now wouldn’t that be funny, I thought. Sometimes a song would appear like that. Like this melody that appeared, and I had to write it down, and it never became a song, just a small mantra that kept popping up, sometimes, especially at times when becoming aware of my supreme impatience; a wanting of it All, Now! 

Yet when I create, I am patient, there is -only- Now. 

Many years later, in Amsterdam, not yet with green walls but in a colourful flat on my favourite canal, I started playing around with some homemade sounds, a harmonium, some birds, and then pressed record as I sang into the mic and words and melodies flowed freely, and there it was, this melody that time travelled and brought the rest of its song along, because sometimes this is how it goes, and time folds, and everything is different and yet in essence, so very much the same; falling awake from the illusion of time and space and separation, and there is only Now, and Now, and Now, in tune and in sync with the divine perfection of life.

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Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Arrows flutter in the skies
And hollow holy earth,
The under breath of wanting to believe
And the slightest lion eyes
Behold
And the crowd is going mad
Cause they want us to glorify
And the flowers glow
Sleepless nights

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Round & round rivers,
And on the boat we rock
Back and forth
The lion sleeps and slides
Sleep and find me home

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle
Be patient, love will come
Be well patient
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Bloom de Wilde: Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Synth
Nick Trepka: Bass Guitar, Birds
Sam Ritchie: Flugelhorn, String Arrangement 
Juba Wetzler: Drums

Written by B. de Wilde de Ligny
Produced by Nick Trepka, Bloom de Wilde & Sam Ritchie
Mixed by Nick Trepka
Mastered by Nick Watson @Fluid Mastering

Recorded at:
Lullabye Factory, Amsterdam
Dream Society HQ, Amsterdam
Trepka Studios, Brighton

The Circular Being

Be Patient

Lyrics by Annemarie van Harten
Music by Alan Lauris

Poetry and Songs (2015 DEMO)

Off 'White Falcon' (EP at http://falconwhite.bandcamp.com)

The Barstow Stud

VIDEOCLIP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA3NTlOOm10
www.voorzetselkoor.nl
www.facebook.com/voorzetselkoor
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6PnCqvkiXgrG6UVPaNXJyJ
Maria vertelt op de radio over Hattemerbroek: https://soundcloud.com/voorzetselkoor/interview-maria-over-hattemerbroek-op-locofm
Geschreven en gemixt door Alan Lauris Hoekstra
Mondharp: Danibal
Mastering: Hay Zeelen

HATTEMERBROEK 

Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 
Hatteme nu nie zonne kouwe 
Hatteder beter veurgestoan 
Hatte mar nooit nie weggegoan 
Hatteme beter aangedoan 
Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 

Ze stonne inne duuster oppe stiep 
goatte mie na de plas 
te sluupe en te komme in geniep 
stoppe die mar inne tas 

Ze woare nie te houwe inne flits 
geete rap op mekoar 
da stoanne we te sjuuve mette rits 
Inne zak war te zwoar 

Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 
Hatteme nu nie zonne kouwe 
Hatteder beter veurgestoan 
Hatte mar nooit nie weggegoan 
Hatteme beter aangedoan 
Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 

Hatteme niks nie uutgekome 
Hatteme huus nie uutgetrap 
Hatteme gene enge drome 
Hateme welle warme hap 
Hatte mar nooit nie weggegoan 
Hatteme beter aangedoan 
Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 

De broek war uut de mik war overeen 
Gonge deur en mar deur 
Ze loate mich de mooiste sterre zeen 
oppe neer achter veur 

Mar da woare ze plotsklaps uut het zich 
Stonne ik me bloate mik 
Die tas en och die broek der war de nich 
schrokke lam me rikketik 

Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 
Hatteme nu nie zonne kouwe 
Hatteder beter veurgestoan 
Hatte mar nooit nie weggegoan 
Hatteme beter aangedoan 
Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 

Hatteme niks nie uutgekome 
Hatteme huus nie uutgetrap 
Hatteme gene enge drome 
Hateme welle warme hap 
Hatte mar nooit nie weggegoan 
Hatteme beter aangedoan 
Hattemerbroek mar aangehouwe 
Hattemerbroek nie uitgedoan 

"Bie Hoeveloake Rechtdeur!!'

Hattermerbroek

Maria wordt geïnterviewd over de single Hattemerbroek door omroep LocoFM van de gemeente Oldebroek, waar Hattemerbroek onder valt!

VIDEOCLIP! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA3NTlOOm10
www.voorzetselkoor.nl
www.facebook.com/voorzetselkoor
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6PnCqvkiXgrG6UVPaNXJyJ
https://soundcloud.com/voorzetselkoor/hattermerbroek

Interview Maria over Hattemerbroek op LocoFM

"So Humble The Afternoon" by Julia Holter

Listen to this track and more at adultswim.com/singles

Adult Swim Singles 2017

Julia Holter - So Humble The Afternoon

Midsized European Cities

'Break' is the first single from my new album, also called ‘Break‘, 
to be released in spring 2025 (digital, CD and vinyl).

The song is, like the other songs on the album, a piano-based pop song, a bit slower, darker, more introspective and less electronic than you might know from me. 

It’s about breaking points in life.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2GakcRpQ&list=PLtl4vJ2sJbAdCDwzfj5FZjOY3aQ1KdfRD&index=1

Break

Piano and electronics. Catching, melodic, sometimes touching, sometimes funny popsongs with jazzy, electronic and classic influences.
New album 'Break': http://www.alanlauris.com/break