Son Lux: 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, April 28, 2021 Watch this stunning home Tiny Desk performance from Son Lux and you might conclude the band members live together in an allwhite universe without walls or boundaries. But it s all an illusion. In fact, guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, drummer Ian Chang and singerkeyboardist Ryan Lott, who started Son Lux as a solo project back in 2008, each shot their own, separate video with their iPhones, at different times, at their homes scattered across different states. So did the guest vocalists, Nina Moffitt and Kiah Victoria. Editor Evan Chapman then stitched all the videos together. The effect is dizzying and sometimes disorienting as superimposed images flicker and warble over one another against Bhatia s skittering guitar li
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