Giving the Bizness
This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.
Merril Garbus of tUnE-yArDs performs in Paris this year (Wiki Commons).
Merril Garbus of tUnE-yArDs cite Barrington Levy, Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin, Ruth Garbus, Bertolt Brecht, Björk, Todd Rundgren, Fela Kuti and “you” as their influences. Here the band performs their original composition, “Bizness,” live for a public radio station in New York City.
Tanya Auclair (from West London, “via Canada and Rwanda” and citing as her influences Bongo Joe Coleman, Juana Molina, The Staple Singers, Laurie Anderson, Matthew Herbert and E.S.G, sings and plays ‘Origami’.
Trust Shabazz Palaces and Kahlil Joseph to do it again on “Black Up.”
While we’re in South Africa, I’m feeling this guitar band from Cape Town: MacGyver Knife. And their new song. While we’re on it, there aren’t that many corners in Woodstock left where bands or advertising companies can shoot a music video, spray a graffiti or do a photo shoot.
And to end, a new video by School is Cool arrives one year early.
