MUSIC FROM SPACE: Nora Jones - SINKIN' SOON
Friday, May 1, 2009
I know what you're thinking. "Music From Space is supposed to feature weird music videos of interest to the age 25-55, sci-fi/horror geek demographic! But Nora Jones is that mainstream, Grammy-winning, jazz singer lady I hear sometimes when I'm at the dentist! What gives?!" (Well, your thoughts probably didn't include that link to Jones' page on Wikipedia... But if they did, I'm impressed.)
Not so long ago, I'd never given Jones much thought either. But then I saw a few of her music videos, and they were as strange and arty, in their own mellow way, as anything Bjork has ever done. And the songs themselves were lovely things, too. Sinkin' Soon, off the album Not Too Late (click the cover image to buy it on Amazon) is a roguish charmer possessing what Jones has aptly described as a "drunken sailor vibe." The video is a little wonder featuring household objects that come to life, through the miracle of stop-motion animation, to form a little jazz combo with Jones (while a little dollhouse Jones joins in on a toy piano.) The song's percussion was done with pots and pans, Tom Waits-style, and Jones ended up busting her teapot. When a musician busts their teapot for you, you know they're the real deal.
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Not so long ago, I'd never given Jones much thought either. But then I saw a few of her music videos, and they were as strange and arty, in their own mellow way, as anything Bjork has ever done. And the songs themselves were lovely things, too. Sinkin' Soon, off the album Not Too Late (click the cover image to buy it on Amazon) is a roguish charmer possessing what Jones has aptly described as a "drunken sailor vibe." The video is a little wonder featuring household objects that come to life, through the miracle of stop-motion animation, to form a little jazz combo with Jones (while a little dollhouse Jones joins in on a toy piano.) The song's percussion was done with pots and pans, Tom Waits-style, and Jones ended up busting her teapot. When a musician busts their teapot for you, you know they're the real deal.
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