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ESKIMEAUX – ” Tiny Desk Concert ” 28th August 2015

Posted: December 1, 2015 in MUSIC
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Eskimeaux’s OK is easily my most played album of the year, next to the Courtney Barnett record. There’s lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song. Here are OK’s first lines:

In my dreams you’re a bathtub running,
You are warm and tender,
And bubbling,
Oh, you are cold and bristling and struggling

As an adopted child, Smith discovered that her biological father is Tlingit Eskimo; she describes the -eaux suffix as “just a playful jumble of letters that represents the way I record — a confusing layering of sounds that somehow coalesce into something simple.”

Smith has performed at the Tiny Desk before: She’s part of a New York art collective that includes Told Slant, Small Wonder and Bellows, and Bellows played here not too long ago. Some of the players in those bands sing with Smith in her final song — one of my favorite songs of the year — called “I Admit I’m Scared,” which ends with a few perfectly chosen words:

And if I had a dime for every time I’m freaking out,
We could fly around the world
Or just get out of your parents’ house,

Set List
“Folly” 00:00
“A Hug Too Long” 02:42
“I Admit I’m Scared” 05:25

AURORA – ” Tiny Desk Concert “

Posted: November 21, 2015 in MUSIC
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The girl behind the christmas John Lewis advert,  Aurora , her vocals and style seem so new to her that each note, and each hand gesture accompanying each note, seemed like a discovery and an adventure for the singer. She was 18 when she first came to New York City, and now the Norwegian singer is 19; take a look at this Tiny Desk Concert, and her sense of innocence and discovery still rings as true as ever.

Aurora has just one EP and some singles out so far, and ever since seeing her at CMJ in 2014, I’ve been eager to hear what she  offers on her debut album. Due early next year, we should finally hear it — as well as more chances to see Aurora live, as she plans on touring soon.

Running With The Wolves is available now.

Set List

  • “Runaway”
  • “Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)”
  • “Running With The Wolves”

SOAK – ” Tiny Desk Concert “

Posted: August 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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August 03rd, 2015,  The opening line of SOAK’s debut album — “A teenage heart is an unguided dart” — contains the first words I heard from 19-year-old singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson. Now, she’s bringing that fragile, pure, thickly Irish-accented voice to the Tiny Desk.

Before We Forgot How To Dream, SOAK’s debut, is one of my favorite albums of 2015. Monds-Watson’s songs are about growing up and trying to understand adults and friends and life; though they’re quiet, they aren’t dour. They can be funny and smart, atmospheric and delicate — so much more than might be expected from a lone Irish teenager with an acoustic guitar. NPR Radio invited SOAK into their offices for a breathtakingly intimate Tiny Desk Session, featuring “Sea Creatures,” “B a noBody,” and “Wait.”

As host Bob Boilen explained: “Before We Forgot How To Dream, SOAK’s debut, Monds-Watson’s songs are about growing up and trying to understand adults and friends and life; though they’re quiet, they aren’t dour. They can be funny and smart, atmospheric and delicate — so much more than might be expected from a lone Irish teenager with an acoustic guitar

Set List
♪”Sea Creatures”
♪”B a noBody”
♪”Wait”

GIRLPOOL – ” Tiny Desk Concerts “

Posted: July 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Girlpool‘s Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad perform in unison: They play their guitars that way — Tucker on lead, Tividad playing bass — and they sing the same angsty, funny words simultaneously, or as if emulating a nursery-rhyme-style round, a la “Row Row Row Your Boat.”

The duo has made one of my favorite albums of the year so far, “Before The World Was Big”, which followed a self-titled debut EP from 2014. Girlpool’s words deal with the pedestrian, the mundane and the beauty locked away in both. In 10 songs and 24 minutes, the charming, talented performers find their strength in essence, without drums or unnecessary rock trappings. The ingredients require no cooking and are served strictly raw, with one caveat: If it’s good, double it for sure.

Set List

  • “Before The World Was Big”
  • “Ideal World”
  • “Cherry Picking”

CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING – ” Tiny Desk Concert “

Posted: July 7, 2015 in MUSIC
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Christopher Paul Stelling’s third album, “Labor Against Waste”, I expected a certain intensity to his performance. But I didn’t expect him to nearly implode behind my desk, as the fierceness of his heartfelt songs was set against deft fingerpicking on his beat-to-hell ’64 Gibson gut-string classical guitar. That guitar, bought in Asheville, looks like a well-worn friend, with its dark bruised wood and his initials hand-carved into its body. Stelling marked the instrument a year after he bought it, when he made New York City his home in 2007.By the time he played “Horse,” his third song at the Tiny Desk, Stelling seemed overtaken by the song he wrote. Watch him lean in as if he’s about to lunge, his eyes bugged out, sometimes rolled back in his head revealing just the whites, skin blood-red, voice like a preacher on fire. His music feels undeniable: Best witnessed live, it’s steeped in tradition yet filled with vitality, immediacy and soul — all the reasons worth discovering someone new.

Set List
“Castle”
“Scarecrow”
“Horse”
“Warm Enemy”

J MASCIS – ” Tiny Desk Concert “

Posted: December 21, 2014 in MUSIC
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The loudest guy in the world came to the Tiny Desk to perform some of his acoustic tracks  music. Dinosaur Jr.‘s  J Mascis, armed with just an acoustic guitar. I even had an amp for that guitar all lined up, but he decided to not plug in. A low-key J Mascis, performing emotional songs from his new album “Tied To A Star”, as well as Dinosaur Jr.’s classic “Little Fury Things.” If you think Mascis draws all his power from sheer volume, this ought to convince you otherwise.

Set List

  • “Stumble” .”Little Fury Things”. “Drifter/Heal The Star

JACKSON BROWNE – ” Tiny Desk Concert “

Posted: October 11, 2014 in MUSIC
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Jackson Browne had his first album released in 1971,the singer songwriter had been in the Nitty Gritty Dirt band, before playing gigs around Greenwich Village in New York. Meeting Nico his then girlfriend at the time, from the Velvet Underground, He contributed the song “These Days” for her first solo album “Chelsea Girl”, Jackson who now has turned 66 years of age is still writing such songs with conviction, his new album “Standing In The Breach” the 14th of his career.The Songs from this session “Call It A Loan”, Barricades Of Heaven” and “Long Way Around”

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