OHZ’s SONG OF THE MONTH: July 2010 (#2)
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire: Nuthinduan Waltz.
As this song doesn’t appear to be available anywhere online for live streaming, in order to share with you OHZ’s song of the month for July I am left with no choice but to provide a download link.
Thankfully in my current work environment –a warehouse full of boxes- we have been generously donated a CD player in order to numb the pain and escape from the tediousness the job tends to offer. As my colleague has conveniently placed himself next-door to this holy device, he up until now has had almost full reign on the daily playlists. While this dictatorship has brought with it many arguments regarding music tastes, it seems my predecessor’s obsession with playing random soundtracks has traumatised him to the extent whereby my colleague now sceptically chooses to stubbornly play only his own music.
As a consequence while being forced to endure the likes of Supergrass and Mumford and Sons, there has been besides the distressful, moments of mutual satisfaction. Among these comes the multi-instrumentalist, versatile, Chicago-born musician Andrew Bird’s effort The Thrills, a CD packed full of soothing, nostalgic pop tunes. Employing a hybrid of old music melodies, the CD illustrates influences as diverse as Django Reinhardt, Brecht and arguably to a lesser more contemporary extent even Tom Waits. Helping to bring light to my otherwise dull and monotonous duties as well as pacify hostile scowling, the song that has been spinning most frequently within my head this past month is Andrew Bird’s fresh and seductive Nuthinduan Waltz.
