“Heard Your Voice in Dresden” - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
NPR All Songs Considered extensively covered the 2009 Newport Folk concert two weeks ago.
The festival sounded amazing and I’ve really enjoyed listening to a couple of the live sets
- Fleet Foxes nail Blue Ridge Mountains as the closer
- Iron & Wine brought back “Such Great Heights” which I haven’t heard since I was 17
- Lastly, Mavis Staples’ set is unreal - Making her 1960s Gospel/Soul/civil rights anthem sound so fresh
My big discovery from the Festival has to be Elvis Perkins. His straightforward singer-songwriter sound gives way to a wide variety of fleshed out, exciting sounds - including New Orleans jazz, ragtime, Tom Petty-ish rock, and Arcade Fire-ish orchestral pieces. In the end, it’s all folk. Check out “I Heard Your Voice in Dresden” and listen to his, and other, live set at the NPR website.
La Blogotheque- Les Concerts à Emporter
Check out this music/film project from the French music blog La Blogotheque. Since the spring of 2006, director Vincent Moon has been putting together short films of “Take Away Shows,” or semi-impromptu concerts featuring a great mix of artists. Moon explains (and I roughly translate, sorry): “Each week, we film with an artist or band that we’ve invited to play in the city, a bar, the street, a park, an apartment, and we leave in all the accidents, the hesitations, the ‘moments of madness’. Without much editing, with raw sound: to capture an instant, to film the music as it comes, without preparation, without tricks.” The videos are really beautiful, and they give us the opportunity to see and hear some of our favorite bands in unexpected ways. Most of the filming is done in Paris, but recently La Blogotheque has been traveling to other cities. For now the blog appears to favor the indie rock/folk scenes; I’ll be interested to see if they diversify as the project grows…
Anyway, I’ve posted one of my favorites from the site: Fleet Foxes playing Sun Giant and Blue Ridge Mountains. Enjoy, and check out all the other great artists on the site:
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Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
