Other performers taking part in the series are FKA twigs, Denzel Curry, Monica, Adekunle Gold, and. "La musique nous réunit / Une famille," Russell sang in Québécois French. Madi Diaz: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert NPR Music 35 Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Maxo Kream NPR Music 36 Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Pom Pom Squad NPR Music 37 Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: KAINA NPR Music 38 Tiny Desk. Lenae’s Tiny Desk set is also part of NPR’s celebration of Juneteenth and Black Music Month. Then came "You're Not Alone," a song Russell originally wrote as part of the Americana supergroup Our Native Daughters, just rereleased as a duet with Brandi Carlile. The experience led me to an idea: I figured it would be cool to piece together a quick little ranking of my top 10 Tiny Desk concerts that you need to listen or re-listen to (Usher is in there).
The blues-rooted "Nightflyer" followed drummer Megan Coleman's green satin angel-wing sleeves shimmered as she marked a beat that guitarists Joy Clark and Mandy Fer intensified. The intense interplay of cellists Larissa Maestro and Monique Ross and violinist Chauntee Ross undergirded the propulsive arrangement. Russell, who burned a little palo santo wood and placed portraits of Prince and Joni Mitchell nearby as talismans before performing, began her set by invoking the ancestors with "Quasheba." She continued with the incantatory "4th Day Prayer," a spell cast to undo the oppression of childhood trauma. Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio on Apple Podcasts 300 episodes Tiny Desk Concerts from NPR Music feature your favorite musicians performing at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilens desk in the NPR office. This group - three string players, two guitarists, a drummer and Russell on her banjo and clarinet - embodies healing community, and its interplay and gospelized group vocals turbo-charged every song. Russell has cultivated this band's harmoniousness in the year she's been touring in support of her astounding, unclassifiable album Outside Child, which tells the singer's life story, from her childhood escaping abuse through an itinerant adolescence and young adulthood anchored, finally, by the love and community she's found as a feminist and a music-maker. "I am grateful and I am proud for this circle of goddesses," said Allison Russell during her joyful, rousing Tiny Desk set, reaching toward the six women surrounding her.
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