Posted on June 28, 2010 – 15:00 in Music | Steven
The Take-Away Shows
Every now and then my concept of modern music gets shaken to it’s core. Cue the “Take-Away Shows”. What makes matters worse is that the Take-Away Shows have existed since 2006 and I didn’t know. Unreal. From their website “Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session. Of course, what makes the beauty of it is all the little incidents, hesitations, and crazy stuff happening unexpectingly. Besides, we do not edit the videos so they look perfectly flawless, instead we keep the raw sound of the surroundings. Our goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without preparation, without tricks. Spontaneity is the keyword.”.
Here is a link to a rendition of “Killing Moon” by Echo and the Bunnymen, which is out of this world. I do implore you to check out the entire site, there are gems to be found here that will last you a few years. Amazing work all around. I’ll go as far as saying, that this is the best thing in music I have found in a long long time.
Check out this beauty also.
