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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Last Night An Internal Monologue During a Dirty Projectors Show Might be More of a Dialogue

Posted by on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:26 PM

Damn, this is amazing.
I kinda feel like I'm watching white kids appropriating African music.
Yeah... but they're really good. Their polyrhythms are blowing my mind and when Amber and Haley went into that alternating stacatto on the intro to "Remade Horizon," my jaw hit the floor and I am as yet unable to pick it up.
Um, but it's white kids playing African music.
Okay yeah, but... I mean it's not like they're going all Paul Simon and entering into questionably exploitative interactions with indigenous musicians, so... (shrugs) who are they hurting, really? Maybe I just want to enjoy this without overintellectualizing. God.
(Awkward silence.) I love Paul Simon.
...Woah, did you see the size of the Dirty Projectors' tour bus? Fuck.
I have never seen so many pairs of glasses in the front few rows of a Neumos show.
You need to be smart to like this music. When was the last time you heard something that was indisputably pop and yet you completely can't sing along to it? Like, you can't even try? Look at them. They're even having trouble nodding their heads.
Everyone is loving this.
Globalization needs a soundtrack anyway. Aren't we all suffering to integrate our newfound overload of information into our creative output?
True, but if this ends with Britney Spears Tuvan throat singing all over the Billboard chart, I am OUT.

 

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Posted by vinD on November 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Grrr 2
I'll say that I'm one of the few guys up front with the pairs of glasses. I'll have to say though that Bitte Orca speaks to me differently. I hear what sounds like outtakes from Yes' Close To The Edge more than world music. I guess it may be that Longstreth's guitar parts remind me of Steve Howe's passages. I also realized last night that the other factor that would tie it to Yes is the use of the Rickenbacker bass and that distinctive tone.
Posted by Grrr on November 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM

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