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[Dusty Chalk]

"I'm your secret...(shhhhhhhh!)...Santa..."

 

This is delightfully 70's creepy.  I feel so dirty now.

[mikeymad]

[Dusty Chalk]

I don't care what the guy looks like, this arrangement is fantastic.

[Torpedo]

Wow, very good indeed. Thanks for sharing, Peter.

[Dusty Chalk]

These are some very powerful a cappella singers, and it's a very nice arrangement approved by Oh Land herself:

[mikeymad]

kids are fun...

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She so hawt...

[ironbut]

[Dusty Chalk]

With Coldplay, it's always, "spot the influence" -- in this case...Fever Ray?  Anyway, as much as I usually hate them, I think this one's pretty:

[ironbut]

I love a good mystery.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

http://vimeo.com/63600754

[blessingx]

Singing while...

http://youtu.be/3h37xswCoY0

[mikeymad]

[Dusty Chalk]

[blessingx]

For Mothers Day

http://youtu.be/7bDLIV96LD4

[blessingx]

VU 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P7mJslbPPE

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[Sherwood]

 

Ric, I just watched a good chunk of that interview.  i love Jack White, and he touched on an idea that David Byrne has said more eloquently elsewhere.  The notion of music as divine inspiration, or as some ephemeral muse expressing itself through the hapless musician is silly.  How is it that every musician's muse happens to express itself in 3 minute, 30 second songs?  

 

Music is work, and White points out that he writes songs when he has to.  He books studio time, or someone books his time, and he buckles down and writes songs.  Byrne theorizes (in his excellent book "How Music Works") that music naturally evolves to fit the space it occupies, and better music does that better.  The Talking Heads, he points out, evolved to play CBGB.  That's the only place they played for a year or so.

[blessingx]

That's interesting. I latched on to the very related necessity of resistance in Art angle (which he also touched on in 'It Might Get Loud'). Probably heard it first from Matthew Barney, but White is the articulate one.

[Sherwood]

That whole section of it might get loud was brilliant, starting from where he nailed a string under tension on top of a pickup and built a lap steel, of sorts.  He touched on it here, as well, when he mentioned how comfort is the enemy of art.  I'm glad he's good at surrounding himself with people who have expectations, because I keep getting great music.