More Tunes//Keating

[Mark Sacha]

For some reason this reminds me of the Nick Cave soundtrack to that iffy
film adaptation of The Road. Much better, of course.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey everybody,
>
> I meant to post this a week ago, forgot, and was reminded of it by the
> music recommendations floating around recently.
>
> For the last year or so I've been really enjoying the music of this
> contemporary cellist named Zoë Keating. I'm sure many of you are familiar,
> but if you aren't...
>
> She uses a foot-powered laptop on stage to make these really complex,
> layered arrangements which she assembles at speed. In addition to the
> coolness of it, it's also just very, very beautiful music. No lyrics. Very
> dark, but also ethereal.
>
> I had the chance to see her live for the first time here in Chicago last
> month. There were a lot of hiccups--some of her equipment didn't make it;
> she has what seems to be a chronic finger injury that flared up
> mid-performance--but she was great nonetheless. (Man, watching an artist
> that talented perform--watching her hands and her feet move--really
> compelling stuff).
>
> I'm sending along a performance she gave at a TEDTalk in 2009 and two
> studio versions. If anybody else has any recommendations for me based on
> this stuff, love to hear it.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcoHf87He8
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfdPtNf7c4Y
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4xVOhVX8T4
>
>
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