SOUNDTRACK: BEAM-Tiny Desk (Home) Concert #40 (June 26, 2020).
BEAM is a Jamaica-born, Miami-raised reggae artist, whose
father, Papa San, was a dancehall superstar during the late 1980s and early ’90s before becoming a preacher.
BEAM performs four songs, and
the 23-year-old singer and his co-producer and keyboardist, Al Cres, brought a new flair to the Tiny Desk (home) concert series with some unorthodox visual effects.
A guy rapping quickly with a pretty heavy Jamaican accent is pretty hard for me to understand, so I tend to hear phrases like “makes sure you know how to [garbled]” and I think he’s saying NPR a lot.
“SOLDIER” starts the set.
“MAD GAAL,” featured on his 2019 major-label debut, 95, is sure to keep living room dancefloors bumping during the pandemic.
“STRANDED” is a slower, ballad-style song with gentle keys from Al Cres.
He concluded the set with an exclusive: “KUMBAYA”, a fitting song for this moment in history.
It is nice that he included a green screen for visuals.
[READ: July 1, 2020] Bird Trivia
I was looking up books about birds and this book popped up. It seemed like a fun book to check out. The original subtitle (the one still visible on Goodreads) is “Amazing Facts to Wow Any Bird-Lover.” This original subtitle REALLY overstates the quality of this book. The final subtitle is a bit more realistic.
Because this book is okay. It’s quite short and feels a lot like the forty some pages of information that Tekiela finds interesting. It feels like a very personal book (which is good and bad).
I don’t really know what one might expect from a book of bird trivia. Most bird lovers know a lot of trivia already about their birds (really, isn’t any information about birds trivia?). (more…)
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