Video: Tune-Yards - an awesome song that I don't know the title of (live in Minneapolis)

Photo used with the kind permission of David Atlas Merrill Garbus' tUnE-yArDs project was one of the late, great musical surprises of my 2009. Sean over at Said The Gramophone included Hatari on the Gramophone's best of the year compilation and I was well and truly knocked out by its adept mix of ragged DIY garage rock, African vocal flourishes reminiscent of Letta Mbulu or Dorothy Masuka and respect for melody. [...]

tUnE-yArDs - "Real Live Flesh" I found this studio recorded clip posted on Pitchfork. It's the best evidence answering the above headline. With the help from a sexy bass line, Merrill Garbus builds vocal loops and rhythms before your very eyes in the wonderfully shot video (care of 4AD Sessions). The track is called "Real Live Flesh" from the recently re-released BiRd BrAiNs . The Dirty Projectors cue is an easy one to point out, same with Garbus's R&B via indie stylings, but the [...]

Example of tUnE-YaRdS' wanton radness Dirty Projectors/tUnE-YaRdS Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, November 19 Look, the Projectors are doing fine, just fine. Just a wee bit overexposed a... Continue reading "Live: In Praise of tUnE-YaRdS, Who Rendered The Dirty Projectors A Mere Afterthought At Music Hall of Williamsburg" >