Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

I do believe this song has signalled the coming of the messiah.

by which I mean, it's pretty great.

She sounded great in concert last night. It was really great hearing her voice surrounded by quite a few different instruments and great to see her jump on the piano a couple of times.

the leaked songs are my least favorite of what I've heard from the new stuff tbh

jim o'rourke produced this, right?

He did? Again? Oh man.

He only mixed Ys. :)

would ppl who are repping hard for jn's harp chops please list four or five of their other favorite harpists, please

(sorry)

my favorite harpists are Ann Hobson-Pilot and Elizabeth Remy

alice coltrane

Little Walter

oops I meant Elisabeth Remy Johnson

gotta get it right if I'm gonna pimp friends

that chick from owt

http://tejiendoelmundo.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/harpo_marx.jpg

http://www.elisabethremy.com/grandjany.mp3

^^^ ftr, also runs marathons

would ppl who are repping hard for jn's harp chops please list four or five of their other favorite harpists, please

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:05 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

think youre misreading some people? i dont think anyone is repping 4 her chops.

This is what I said upthread:

No one listens to her because she's the Yngwie Malmsteen of the harp -- she's isn't! There's no unnecessary display of technical prowess going on in any of her songs; they're all carefully, and painstakingly, composed pieces, and I personally don't hear anything "extraneous" in any of them.

I'm with max.

ksh highway what do you think of sonny boy williamson's harp playing

man, i'm impressed by anyone who can play a harmonica. i've tried. shit's hard.

(i used Wikipedia, btw.)

:-)

that chick from owt

zeena parkins, totally blanked on her name for a second there

Rhodri Davies, Xavier de Maistre, Alice Coltrane, Nicanor Zabaleta

i've heard her harp playing described as very idiosyncratic and sorta self-taught? it's all plinky plink plink to me.

not sure that anyone was repping that hard for the chops? Besides Evan's "extremely technically proficient", which isn't the most mindblowing of praise. (eesh many xposts, learn to type quickly.)

This song, I realise, kinda reminds me of Song Cycle, a kind of miniature excursion into the relatively-unmined-by-modern-pop-music side of the American vernacular.

no, her playing is equally influenced by trad classical training and african kora music

xp

i've heard her harp playing described as very idiosyncratic and sorta self-taught? it's all plinky plink plink to me.

― velko, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:14 PM (1 minute ago)

she's classicaly trainwd

yeah, like i said, i'm not sure i could tell the diff (i was probably remembering someone describing her vocals lol)

"classically trained" is kind of like "went to college"

I'm sure she's fine but yeah it was even's "extremely technically proficient" line I was thinkin abt

lol @ the JN opinion police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FuYpme0Cm4

I saw her on the YS tour, she played some pretty intricate stuff for 1+ hour and I didn't hear an off note so I'd put her in the beyond proficient category

talks a bit about her harp playing here
http://www.chickfactor.com/current/cf16_joannanewsom.shtml

no, her playing is equally influenced by trad classical training and african kora music

xp

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:16 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thought this was a joke at first

hey j0hn when are you gonna finally write a dude-from-the-fiery-furnaces-style rant on JN and her cult

From that chickfactor interview:

cf: what's your drink of choice?
joanna: hmm. if I had my druthers, I would only drink framboise lambic, which is a raspberry-flavored, frothy, garnet belgian ale that tastes like unicorn tears.

This is exactly the shit that kept me from listening to her way back when. I mean, yes my own issue and I did get over it, but ffs... "unicorn tears"???

thing is, she is kind of OTM

also framboise sucks

xp haha

that's a random line which in no way communicates with the general landscape of her lyrics. and it has to be said she grew an enormous amount from the debut to ys

she meant the bloody wounds(tears) a unicorn makes with its horn

she grew. . . into a unicorn

framboise lambic is nice in small doses but in order to drink a whole lot of it you'd need to be really technically proficient

my respect for joanna newsom has gone way up now that I know she actually says things like "unicorn tears" in interviews

Triple LP btw

(turangalia, the thing is, I'm not a hater of JN - I think she's kinda terrific in some ways, and, besides, I think it's really kinda icky when musicians from the same side of the block snark & spit real-world venom, that is completely not my style - I'm glad as fuck that JN is making records that inspire people to flights of hyperbole, make them cry, etc. poking juvenile fun at ppl whose appreciation for classical music seems to begin and end with classically trained indie rock musicians, OTOH, that is exactly my style iirc, and besides, there are presently-working women songwriters who are considerably better than JN who don't get mileage because they don't give indie dudes a sci-fi boner, and that's the kinda haterade I can really get down with on an ilm thread or two)

So you don't think it's demeaning to lob in an assumption that all of us get turned on and THAT'S why we prefer Joanna Newsom to your own A list of female songwriters..

yes, I think it's the most demeaning thing ever & you should be outraged

Diane Cluck to thread

itt j0hn lists female songwriters more worthy of boners than joanna newsom

that's a random line which in no way communicates with the general landscape of her lyrics. and it has to be said she grew an enormous amount from the debut to ys

Oh, I know that. Like I said, I got over myself and eventually gave her a chance - very glad I did. But, really, thats a line that would have me rolling my eyes no matter who uttered it. But back when she was fist being hyped, you combine quote like that with the pictures of her with elf ears and you can 100% understand why people might not be on board.