SOUNDTRACK: CAUTIOUS CLAY-“Sidewinder” Tiny Desk Family Hour (March 12, 2019).
These next few shows were recorded at NPR’s SXSW Showcase.
The SXSW Music Festival is pleased to announce the first-ever Tiny Desk Family Hour showcase, an evening of music by artists who have played NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert, at Central Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, March 12 from 8-11pm.
Cautious Clay is the “far-reaching and breezily soulful project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Karpeh.” I love his stage name, but I wasn’t that crazy about his music–it was a little too soft and flat for my liking.
And yet I really enjoyed this song.
The song is remarkably simple–a rubbery bassline (that never changes throughout the song) and simple slightly jazzy drum beat. Karpeh sings in his gentle voice and strums occasional delicate chords. The chords, while gentle, bring in some nice sharp high notes to the otherwise bass-filled song.
But the real joy comes when, after a couple of verses, Karpeh puts down his guitar and picks up his…flute. He plays a wonderful flute solo and it totally makes the song shine.
[READ: March 17, 2019] Toast on Toast
I have never seen the BBC show Toast of London, but I love Matt Berry and assumed this would be a very funny read. I see that this also came as an audio book and I assume it would 10 times funnier if it was read by Berry instead of by me.
So this book is an autobiography and “helpful guide to acting” from Steven Toast. Since I haven’t seen the show I genuinely don’t know if Steven Toast is any good at acting or not. I can tell from the book that he is a pompous ass (which is 3/4 of the humor), but I don’t know if he is justified by behaving that way.
I’m also unfamiliar with BBC practices and with British stage actors in general. So, while I assume that most of the names are made up (the more outrageous ones, surely), there may be a few who are real which might make the jokes even funnier.
Best of all, the book is fairly short, so while there are plenty of laughs, it doesn’t overstay its welcome. (more…)
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