Shearwater - Backchannels (Live on KEXP)
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2016
- KEXP.ORG presents Shearwater performing "Backchannels" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 25, 2016.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Shelly Corbett & Luke Knecht
Director: Justin Wilmore
Editor: Jim Beckmann
Photo thumbnail by Alan Lawrence
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the greatest emotional performance by a drummer that ive ever seen, that dude rocks
Beautiful. I'd like this played at my funeral. Thank you.
cancel my appointments, I'm about to add 1000 views to this 😍😱👏👏👏
Oh, when you whistle down the wind
When you needle the dark with your mind
When you're firing volleys of words in an arc
When you're snuffing out all that's still alive
And a droplet falls
From the dropper's eye
Blooms like a wave
That slowly overruns all of your days
And slips the caul
From off your eyes
You face alone
A fear that's dragging us all in its wake
And you kill the lights
I know
You're in the river now
And you yield to the water's embrace
And you lie like a stone on the banks, giving out
As it carries off all of our names
I know that sound
I know what it likes
I know it feels
Like all the guns of a battery trained
Right at your eyes
Because it's real
Because it pulls
A thread of slowly unraveling days
Annihilates
Your mother tongue
Your only light
But hold this sound
Follow it all the way
And put down the knife
The night is here
But still is spinning out stars in its wake
And that stubborn light
Pools in your heart
Warm and nacreous, baby
The milk of sighs
And dreams
What is funny, I thought this is so hard song to get right live, but they did it beautifully! Down to perfect harmonics. Such a haunting, melancholy song that pulls you right in.
How can this sound so clumsy and genius all at once?... This is one of the most puzzlingly beautiful piece of live music I've ever heard. 💜
I don’t even know how I found Shearwater but I love this album more than anything I heard in the past decade.
I just discovered them from a song in a movie called Pure white bitch. I'll be listening to a lot more
Absolutely the best indie band in the business then, and now. So intense, but without any of that b.s. indie self-consciousness. Shearwater, they rule.
Oh my God. The droplet falls from the dropper's eye... This gave me the shivers. What a voice. So deep and soft.
When it's time for me to shuffle off this mortal coil I wish for this song to be playing within earshot as I leave.
Beautiful comment, thanks.
I love the vocal harmonies.
Pure beauty from start to finish 🌹🎶🌹🎶🌹
Jonathan Meiburg says the song is about a reckoning with suicide, what he calls a robocall from the universe. But to me it also reads as one of the great emblems of the psychedelic experience. “And the droplet falls / from the dropper’s eye…”
Such a fantastic performance😻👍Love this songs for a long time and this live version is absolutely fantastic. Can't stop watching! ❤❤❤
The 'down the wind' part of the phrase comes from the sport of falconry. When hawks are released to hunt they are sent upwind and when turned loose for recreation they are sent downwind. Thus, to 'whistle someone/thing down the wind' is to cast it off to its own fate. Shakespeare alluded to this in Othello, 1604:
If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses [leather straps] were my dear heartstrings, I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To pray at fortune.
The first appearance of the phrase as we now know it that I can find in print comes from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1826:
Surely someone who can whistle down the wind this painful weakness of his nature ... is an anomaly, not a man.
Did you study at the School of Deep Shit? Cause that is some deep shit man.
I can't explain why I like this song... But I do. Maybe the soft-spoken voice, maybe the simple but perfect guitar arrangements. Or maybe the conjunction of all.
Marcos Pérez Don't forget those lyrics!
The lyrics are incredible
this band is dripping talent
Amazing piece of music. Lyrics are outstanding. I'm floored. Thank you so much.
Really incredible music. I listen for a day more than 15 times. Really likes vocals i really enjoy when singer make such vocals ....an drumms ohhhhh . Thanks Spotify recomendations.!!!!
What a fantastic performanc of one of the most powerful songs I've heard in a very long time.
HELL WHAT A VOICE
Just love 💕
Buralarda bir yerlerdeysen eğer Limon, şarkıyı keşfetmemi sağladığın için teşekkürler :)
I have such a terrible music crush on this guy, it is UNREAL
So does my gf. I'd let her, because he is amazing...
Genius 🦋
Undulating, powerful assemblage.
Tremenda pieza! Transporta! Genios todos
How is everyone in this band so pretty
Esta pieza es brutal!!...
Nice.
Wow...
PE DRA DA!
Is the drummer playing that triplet hit snare or is that on the drum machine?
99% certain that's all played live. I'm obsessed with the drumming on this tbh!
Reminds me of Beck Morning Phase
Does anybody know who that drummer is?
That's Josh Halpern. :)
He's utterly mesmerising on this... such a fantastic groove, so crisply & cleanly played, amazing feel, and he looks almost more into it than any drummer I've seen! Meiburg picks amazing musicians to play with him.