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November 20, 2009
What makes tUnE-yArDs special? | Video
tUnE-yArDs - "Real Live Flesh"
I found this studio recorded clip posted on Pitchfork. It's the best evidence answering the above headline. With the help from a sexy bass line, Merrill Garbus builds vocal loops and rhythms before your very eyes in the wonderfully shot video (care of 4AD Sessions). The track is called "Real Live Flesh" from the recently re-released BiRd BrAiNs. The Dirty Projectors cue is an easy one to point out, same with Garbus's R&B via indie stylings, but the finished product is all original. (via P4k)
tUnE-yArDs is in the middle of a 4 night run in NYC opening for the Dirty Projectors. The Village Voice was impressed. They posted a video too, from a recent Minneapolis show.
Look, the Projectors are doing fine, just fine. Just a wee bit overexposed at the moment, maybe. "All I know is this part of the city is the creative capital of the entire world," deadpans Dave Longstreth at one point. (Soon thereafter he's rambling about the unpleasantness of irony.) They play a lovely set that inspires maybe half the awe and exuberance whipped up by tUnE-YaRdS in an opening-act fiesta so absurdly enjoyable I'm actually going to indulge this weird capital-letters thing.I gather TY mastermind Merrill Garbus has been playing this spoiler/scene-stealer role for awhile now, a brassy one-woman band (plus an innocuous dude on bass) who expertly loops herself banging on drums or howling into a couple different microphones (or both, simultaneously) until she's crafted a sort of DIY Lion King fantasia, over which she then strums a ukulele and bellows marvelous stuff like "Do you wanna live? YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH!" This will put you in the mind of Pylon's surly femme disco-punk and/or Micachu's deceptively sweet noise-rock clatter, but mostly it just puts you in a pretty fantastic mood. It's gonna take me awhile to think of another opening act that energized an initially indifferent crowd this thoroughly. (Village Voice)
tUnE-yArDs - "Never Move To Maui" (?) Live @ the Cedar, Minneapolis 11.11.09
Posted by Merry Swankster at November 20, 2009 01:52 PM
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