Dan Snaith, a.k.a. Caribou
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Music: Essential Tracks
Five songs worth listening to
robert everett-green
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
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ROCK/ELECTRONIC
Little By Little
Caribou Rmx, Radiohead, from TKOL RMX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, streaming here
Caribou (Dan Snaith) replaces the hustling organic beat of the original (from The King of Limbs) with an airless electronic loop, made lighter by upward sprays on a harp. Thom Yorke’s vocal stands apart from the increasingly autonomous instrumentals in this thoughtful exploratory remix.
Dan Snaith, a.k.a. Caribou— Handout
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FOLK/COUNTRY
None But Your Mother
Al Tuck, from Under Your Shadow, streaming here
Al Tuck, a national treasure unknown to most, offers an old-school sentimental ballad about the women who brought us into the world, rendered with a wit legible only between the lines of his elegant arrangement for steel guitar, soft-footed bass and his gently scuffed voice.
Al Tuck— Handout
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LATIN
Para Lennon e McCartney
Zimbo Trio, from Bossa Jazz: the Birth of Hard Bossa, Samba Jazz and the Evolution of Brazilian Fusion 1962-73, Soul Jazz Records, streaming here
The Brazilian trio gives a hard-driving gloss on a 1970 standard that Milton Nascimento brilliantly fashioned around a single phrase from the Beatles’ Can’t Buy Me Love. This instrumental take-down, more propulsive than the original, is one of more than two dozen tracks on a great soul jazz anthology.
The Zimbo Trio— Handout
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CLASSICAL
Loreley
Diana Damrau, from Liszt Lieder, Virgin Classics, streaming here
Liszt’s exceptionally varied setting of a well-worn lyric by Heinrich Heine is more like a tone poem with words than a straightforward strophic song. The opening phrases strongly anticipate (if that’s the word) the start of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, written years later. Beautifully performed by Damrau and pianist Helmut Deutsch.
Diana Damrau— Handout
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ESSENTIAL VIDEO
How Come You Never Go There
Feist, from Metals, Arts & Crafts, streaming here
The soulful sashay of Feist’s addictive single gets a little heavier in this black-and-white video, in which the star roams into the woods like a shaman, trailing a curtain of hair down to her ankles. The wind rises, the night comes down and the rites of solitude are enacted among the ferns.
Feist performs during a sold-out show in Vancouver on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.— Rafal Gerszak for the Globe and Mail
