Go Go Penguin NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sept. 14, 2018, Colin Marshall During his setup, GoGo Penguin s pianist Chris Illingworth asked if he could remove our piano cover to access the inside and, after a few rotations of a screwdriver, he soon handed me a long plank of black painted maple, which has no convenient place to rest in the NPR Music office. If you look closely at the piano innards during Bardo, you can see a strip of black tape stretched over a few strings, opposite Illingworth s bobbing head. It mutes a group of strings, turning them into percussive jabs and dividing the instrument into more explicit rhythmic and melodic sections. What you can t see: GoGo Penguin s audio engineer a few feet to the left of frame, dialingin reverb effects on the piano, which we heard in the room. Set List Raven Bardo Window