SOUNDTRACK: GORDI-“Can We Work It Out” (Night Owl, November 20, 2018).
I wanted to finish out November with one more live recording. Turns out NPR was there to help out. They have a new feature called Night Owl.
Every so often, late at night over the past couple years, a team of NPR Music video producers has been toting approximately 80 pounds of audio/video equipment and a statue of a golden owl to the far reaches of American cities. The owl is our Night Owl, and it’s the totem that has presided over nearly every episode of a show that goes by the same name. Night Owl is our chance to get out into the field, put some of our musicians somewhere unexpected and see what magic may arise.
They have released a bunch of these videos on YouTube.
I picked one from an artist I didn’t know yet, Gordi.
I’ve heard of her, of course, but I think this was my first exposure to her. She has a lovely (slightly rough) voice as she sits at the piano singing this pretty, ache-filled song.
[READ: February 8, 2018] “Wars in Distant Lands”
This story was translated from the Arabic by Raymond Stock.
At first I really enjoyed this, it felt very contemporary and compelling. And then it just got weird and war-based.
The narrator pulled Teresa’s postcard from the mailbox. She was arriving on a train at 7PM on June 16. The end said, this is being mailed from Havana and will probably arrive the same day as her, which it did. (more…)
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