Bruce Springsteen covering “When I Leave Berlin,” in front of 55,000 fans in Berlin. (Thanks, @stephenlowman)
Billy Bragg rewrites Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” (via @gregmitch)
And as Billy put it, “What am I going to do if Beethoven finds out?”
LargeUp.com breaks down the Wyclef-Whitney connection. RIP.
With a musical history that dates back to the late 18th century, the group has revitalized a long-lost culture through music performed largely a cappella and entirely in Haitian Creole. Watch The Creole Choir of Cuba mash up Cuban and Haitian cultures in this spirited set at the NPR Music offices.
(Source: NPR)
You heard the Rolling Stones covers and the Moby samples. Alan Lomax heard it first.
Bon Iver & St. Vincent | Roslyn
Easing into the morning.
(Source: nativelungs, via allthethingswelove)
Michael Beirut | Project: Create Logo for the New World Symphony in Miami
An award-winning designer, Bierut is a partner in the New York design firm Pentagram. He was commissioned by the New World Symphony to create a new logo inspired by the Gehry-designed performance hall itself. Here he shares the path he took to create the logo—a process by which art of one sort influenced art of another.
Read the rest at Project: First Drafts or read more on creativity in our special report.
A nifty look into one artist’s creative process, with a hat-tip to Gehry’s new Miami Beach building design.
Arcade Fire’s “Haiti” at the Oloffson Hotel.
(Source: youtube.com)
The Other Side of the Water gets its public television debut on Jan. 12. More about Haitian music since the 2010 earthquake is laid out here.
Anba Dekonb (Under the Rubble) by DJ Tony Mix
(Source: largeup.okayplayer.com)
Creole Choir of Cuba (who have toured previously in the U.S. as Desandann) for generations have passed down songs in Cuba’s Haitian community with roots going back to the turn of the 19th century: totally making me think of Manuel in Masters of the Dew.
Obvs, I’m jealous. … Who’s Alan Lomax, you ask? Only the guy with the coolest job ever.
