Natalie Merchant must-see

[realthog]

Apparently Natalie Merchant has been working on a project for the past five or six years to set 19th- and early-20th-century poetry to music; the results will soon be released on a double CD called Leave Your Sleep. TED recently gave her the stage to preview a bunch of songs from this collection, and you can watch it -- or, at least, 27+ minutes of it, here.

It's fabulous stuff. I suspect TED's bandwidth is going to be getting a severe hammering over the next few days or weeks -- and that's just from me!

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[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

That unblinking mask she's wearing in the opener is hella disturbing, but holy cow, I might actually be able to tolerate her idiosyncratic voice if she's going to deliver songs like that. Thanks for the link!