I often go to David Byrne's web page and marvel at all the things Mr. Byrne seems to be capable of. For example, while the rest of us were busy decking the halls, down to the wire shopping for vaguely remembered relatives and whupping up clam dip, on Christmas Eve he took the red eye to Manila to do research for an operetta about Imelda Marcos. I mean he seems to have time to produce a series of albums featuring Inuit throat singers and Welsh mining choirs, building a sound instalation in Berlin that takes up a whole building, taking his kids to school, giving interviews, mantaining a complex website, doining a daily blog that is more than six lines and picking and tossing up a months worth of amazing music for his internet radio program.
Well no matter how he does it this month's radio offering is really special. He's focusing on "Avant Pop." What is "Avant Pop"? It's hard to describe; a little casio peeping, loops of hub caps being rubbed with a spatula, breathy, emotion drenched, whispered vocals and lyrics that could break the heart of Dick Chaney if he'd only tune in.
A big find for me is "Antony and the Johnsons." "For Today I am a Buoy," just kills me. At first listen I thought it was sung from the position of a strong but very gender confused 12 year old but considering that Antony is singing "Buoy" rather than "Boy" I can only guess that the message is something else entirely.
Man are we living great times or what. "poetic craftsman" are really whacking together some great stuff.
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