Tin Hat: The Rain is a Handsome Animal (New Amsterdam, 8/28/12)
A few weeks ago, the ever-daring Tin Hat collective released another new adventure — a 17-song exploration of the modernist work of poet EE Cummings, with each member offering his or her own interpretation.
“A Cloud on a Leaf,” the album’s opener, is another beautiful, wandering chamber-folk piece, this time penned by clarinetist Ben Goldberg and sung by violinist Carla Kihlstedt. Kihlstedt’s vocal arrangements are integral to the album, and here she offers a melodic interpretation of Cummings’s “Speaking of Love (of… (LV)),” whose punctuation, capitalization, and spacing break the rules in the poet’s typical style.
In the song’s live-style video, the four members present a shuteye performance with a disturbing twist — especially from a distance. Stay strong for the final stare-down at the song’s conclusion.
first music video. check it out.
Fantastic “chamber music” goes outside!
Nice work, Wellington. I am a fan of all Kihlsedt/Ben Goldberg projects.
Great stuff… the eye things short is unnerving! A great effect.
Or, rather,… the eye THING SURE is unnerving…..
Beautiful!
fantastic. exquisite sound too, of course.
Now that’s fun.
wpw! amazing!
@[100002433023890:2048:Elif Karaduman] bu grubu seviyoruuuum!
Wow! Nothing like eeing with one’s eyes closed! Perhaps we see more that way! Thx tin hat for a wonderful song and a remarkable video.
Woops…I meant Seeing, not eeing…though perhaps giving the ee cummings connection, eeing isn’t so off base.
shara aklıma geldi dinlerken..
E yuh.
At first I thought the make-up would be creepy but oddly it creates, very economically, a puppet-like effect that’s quite charming and apropos, as if the musicians were human and not human at the same time. The distancing works perfectly; I was never bored, which is a little rare for me….