Blog: i'm waking up to...

i should be sleeping, but some hours after andrew bird 's concert at the esplanade concert hall, i'm still pretty awed by the genius of the whole performance, by how he put everything together on his own, building up his songs from scratch, loop by loop, layer upon layer. what put everything in place was the way in which he started the set with "the happy birthday song", taking his time in fiddling around with his compact ensemble of instruments, and somehow managing to create the most beautiful sounds from the most random collisions of loops and improvisations. the [...]

• Andrew Bird - Why [Live In Montreal]