Rostam: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Robin Hilton, June 8, 2021 My greatgrandmother always used to say, Life is a train. People get on. People get And it just keeps going. Watching Rostam s Tiny Desk performance, it s easy to imagine you re on that lifetrain, traveling around and around, catching glimpses of instruments and faces as they pass by, before coming back where you started. It s a clever, if sometimes dizzying nod to the overarching themes of Rostam s Changephobia, a collection of songs that simultaneously look to the past and the future. Rostam and a group of backing musicians play two cuts from that album: the relatively breezy, escapist ballad 4Runner and the reflective These Kids We The group closes with In a River, a oneoff single from 2018 th