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You And Me, Beans

jtron — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:44:18 -0800

An Overly Intense Track-By-Track Analysis Of Joanna Newsom’s ‘Have One On Me’ [part one] [part two] [part three] (prev prev prev) {Amazon link with previews} {Label site for album}

Short music, long tail. Comptine d'un autre ete : L'apres midi

fake — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:01:15 -0800

Comptine d'un autre ete : L'apres midi is a simple, heart-rending piano piece by Yann Tiersen. It has inspired covers spanning the range of musical expression: classical guitar, violin, harp, and piano and flute. Maybe that's not surprising, but the depth, sincerity, and number of metal covers was.

Leopold!

jtron — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:07:58 -0800

Where did that great song from Long-Haired Hare come from, anyway? From "The Father of Tap" (Dance), that's where. Sheet Music LISTEN Len Spencer, 1896 Danny Barker & Dick Hyman, 1996

Have One On Joanna

porn in the woods — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:21:36 -0800

"My brother had an MC Hammer album that was riddled with silent patches because my mom had erased the dirty bits from the cassette. I really don’t know how she did it — that might be a lost art — but she had it mastered." Harpist Joanna Newsom talks to The Times Online about her lackadaisical approach to paying the cable bill, last year's experience with vocal cord nodes and her new triple LP Have One On Me.

We are gonna have ourselves a time

Rory Marinich — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:00:03 -0800

Not one to shy away from ambition, Joanna Newsom went from writing sparse harp tunes to releasing a lengthy orchestral album in two years' time. Four years later, her new album's on the way — and it's a triple. Yesterday her label Drag City released its first song, '81. Other miscellanea: Newsom, whose voice provokes instant love in some and instant revulsion in others, has been dating Andy Samberg (yes, that Andy Samberg) since 2007. Her previous album was notable not just for its concept but its personnel: It was arranged by Van Dyke Parks, recorded by Steve Albini, and mixed by Jim O'Rourke. Those who think Newsom's voice is unlistenable should listen to this song from her self-released EP Walnut Whales: It's both a fascinating look into her musical origins and impossible to stomach unless you're already a diehard fan.

Angel background theme.

Mblue — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:12:28 -0800

One Angel supplied his own. Others depended on h u m a n s.

Oddstrument

Upton O'Good — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:36:56 -0800

Oddstrument is a blog about unusual musical instruments and other interesting acoustic technologies.

That ain't doubling on flute. This is doubling on flute.

No-sword — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:58:31 -0800

Two flutes at once. Two guitars at once. (Honorable mentions.) Two recorders at once, 100% nose-powered. Two trumpets at once (breakdown at three).Two harps at once. Two saxophones at once. (Bonus: Clarinet/sax unos.) (Double-link YouTube filter in honor of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday this week.)

Catenaries and dirigibles

vronsky — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:55:07 -0800

Joanna Newsom "a special treat from your friends at Moistworks: Three bootlegs from Joanna Newsom's performance in Greensboro, North Carolina, last November, unavailable anywhere else. You won't be disappointed (unless, to steal the best thing Dave Eggers ever said, you are the sort of person who is usually disappointed, in which case this will be yet another disappointment)."