Live music has always tugged my heartstrings. The spontaneity that results from a live performance is energizing and inspiring, and hearing a live interpretation of a recorded song that's been played in headphones or speakers over and over, sometimes for years, allows a person to feel something he never did the first 100 times he listened to it.
More so, music is universal. A person can die, but his music can last forever. Not just through recordings of a song, but through the millions of people that hum, whistle or belt its lyrics in their homes, shops and markets. All over the world.
This cover of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" began as a recording of a street artist in Santa Monica, CA and ended as a beautiful collision of notes, beats and tones from unknown street musicians all over the world. An article from Gizmodo describes, "it just gets rock 'n' rolling bananas...the producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.”
Enjoy.
Playing For Change | Song Around The World "Stand By Me" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
1 comment:
I totally LOVE this video. I think the guy in New Orleans might be my favorite. love you miss you
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