Sevdaliza: 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. Bob Boilen, January 5, 2021 Good afternoon humans, my name is Sevdaliza, you re very welcome on flight 808; our destination is And so begins our elegant, ethereal journey. We hear an old reeltoreel tape machine spinning some Brazilian bossa nova sounds, then shift to something more somber. Sevdaliza is seated, the tones are golden and brown, and her yearning voice sings, I am flesh, bones, I am skin, soul, I am The song, Human, which casts away the notion of artists particularly female artists as products. It s a defiant stand from this Iranianborn artist. Sevdaliza is an original, a truly creative soul. Her collaborators play delicate textures electronic percussion, buzzing, swirling synth sounds, and cello
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