Joanna Newsom, "Time, As A Symptom" / "Anecdotes" (live), San Francisco, Nov. 25, 2019 (HD)

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  • Joanna Newsom plays her songs "Time, As A Symptom" and "Anecdotes" live in concert at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, California on November 25, 2019, switching instruments mid-song. Both songs were released on Newsom's fourth studio album, Divers (2015). Newsom performed as part of her "Strings/Keys Incident" tour, an intimate set of shows with just her singing and playing piano and harp, and marking her first return to touring since 2016.
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    The Strings/Keys Incident: An Evening With Joanna Newsom Dates:
    Sept. 6-7 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Kimmel Center
    Sept. 9-15 - New York, NY @ El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio
    Oct. 7-10 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
    Oct. 12-13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Irish Cultural and Heritage Center
    Nov. 22 - Carmel, CA @ Sunset Cultural Center
    Nov. 25-26 - San Francisco, CA @ Herbst Theatre
    Dec. 10-14 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Legion Theater (CANCELLED)
    Jan. 15-16 - Austin, TX @ Bates Recital Hall
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    Joanna Newsom official bio:
    Avant-garde multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom will embark on a national tour. The String/Keys Incident - An Evening with Joanna Newsom will feature her emotively beautiful songs in a rare and intimate concert experience by Joanna alone: solo voice, harp, and piano!
    Newsom was classically-trained on the harp at a young age and began her professional musical career as a keyboardist in the San Francisco-based indie band The Pleased. After self-releasing two EPs in 2002, she signed to the independent label Drag City where she released her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender in 2004. The album released to critical-acclaim, named “The 12th best folk album of all time” by NME, and secured Newsom a dedicated underground following.
    In 2006, she released Ys, which charted at Number 134 on Billboard 200 and received a 2007 Shortlist Music Prize nomination. She followed with the release of Have One on Me in 2010 and Divers in 2015. Her song “Sapokanikan” on Divers earned her a spot on NPR’s “The 200 greatest songs by 21st century women.”
    No stranger to critical-acclaim, she is often noted for her unique musical style, sometimes characterized as psychedelic folk, and her prominent use of harp instrumentation. In addition to her solo success in the music industry, Newsom has provided additional vocals for The Lonely Island’s songs “Ras Trent” and “We Are A Crowd.” She has appeared in MGMT’s music video for hit song, “Kids,” and has appeared as an actress in the popular television show Portlandia and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice.
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    Time, As A Symptom lyrics:
    Time passed hard
    And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do
    But she forgot
    The moment she saw you
    So it would seem to be true:
    When cruel birth debases, we forget
    When cruel death debases
    We believe it erases all the rest
    That precedes
    But stand brave, life-liver
    Bleeding out your days
    In the river of time
    Stand brave:
    Time moves both ways
    In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
    Joy of life;
    The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
    Joy of life
    The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
    Not axe nor hammer
    Tumor, tremor
    Can take it away, and it remains
    It remains
    And it pains me to say, I was wrong
    Love is not a symptom of time
    Time is just a symptom of love
    (and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
    Joy of life;
    The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
    Joy of life)
    Hardly seen, hardly felt-
    Deep down where your fight is waiting
    Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:
    Joy of life
    Where I know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
    Bow like the field when the wind combs through it:
    Joy of life
    And every little gust that chances through
    Will dance in the dust of me and you
    With joy-of-life
    And in our perfect secret-keeping:
    One ear of corn
    In silent, reaping
    Joy of life
    Joy! Again, around-a pause, a sound-a song:
    A way a lone a last a loved a long
    A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
    (Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
    A shore, a tide, unmoored-a sight, abroad:
    A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
    No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
    White star, white ship-Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
    White star, white ship-Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
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    Anecdotes lyrics:
    Sending the first scouts over
    Back from the place beyond the dawn:
    Horse, bear your broken soldier
    Eyes frozen wide at what went on
    And Time, in our camp, is moving
    As you’d anticipate it to
    But what is this sample proving?
    Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do
    I kid with Rufous Nightjar
    When our men are all asleep:
    “It ain’t about how rare you are
    But how hard you are to see
    Take, you and me-"
    “When are you from?” said he
    In our blind of winter leaves
    As we sighted out their fliers
    In the grayscale of the night
    Fumbled on the bare ground
    To bury round landmines
    While the dew lay down and dried
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Komentáře • 73

  • @birdlikebirds
    @birdlikebirds Před 3 lety +136

    being able to play both of these songs while switching between two instruments flawlessly is an athletic accomplishment honestly. none of these songs repeat any words and rarely repeat chord progressions. i can't imagine the amount of practice this took. not to mention writing all of it??? joanna newsom is other worldly.

  • @samfinnorchard9838
    @samfinnorchard9838 Před rokem +54

    5:13 shook me to my core. an album about time and eternity that returns to the beginning track to repeat infinitely, what a beautiful concept

    • @kitarnold6284
      @kitarnold6284 Před rokem

      Check out Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard! I’m not sure there’s a huge overlap of fans but it’s an awesome record with a similar feature

  • @katetylah
    @katetylah Před 4 lety +75

    She has a matching mic pack with her wristlets and dress 😭

  • @LolaSebastian
    @LolaSebastian Před 3 lety +68

    Hearing "Time, as a Symptom" right before "Anecdotes"... wow. Such a flawless transition. Eternal Recurrence made music. A not-so cruel birth that does not debase.

  • @Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh
    @Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh Před 3 lety +53

    She's the greatest recording artist. Her lyrics have such poetic texture that I can only compare her to Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare.

  • @pleiades_nuts
    @pleiades_nuts Před 4 lety +36

    5:14 blew my mind. I literally can’t stop watching it.

  • @heatheryyy
    @heatheryyy Před 4 lety +104

    Spontaneously started weeping on the transition between the songs, my heart clenched

    • @jessivlog5534
      @jessivlog5534 Před 4 lety +5

      me too

    • @Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh
      @Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh Před 3 lety +13

      I was there. She opened with 'Sadie' and I was immediately crying. I absolutely lost my shit when she played these 2 songs. She played at the same theatre the next night and the only songs that were in the setlist again were these 2.

    • @catazanoni1455
      @catazanoni1455 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh I wish I can listen to her playing one day❣️

  • @researchingsouls6268
    @researchingsouls6268 Před 4 lety +65

    When she sang ‘Time, as a Symptom’, I can’t help but feel how intimate/personal it sounded. Particularly in this performance. It’s so ethereal.

  • @pampoovey6722
    @pampoovey6722 Před 4 lety +19

    NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL THE REST OF THE WORLD THIS WAS HERE?
    Share, this shit. JOY!!!!!!!!!! Joy of life.

  • @lidianepeixoto9431
    @lidianepeixoto9431 Před 4 lety +169

    she is literally god

    • @nectarandice
      @nectarandice Před 4 lety +8

      Nope. She's a woman favored by God.

    • @gibberconfirm166
      @gibberconfirm166 Před 4 lety +3

      I remember I used to listen to the bootleg "Sawdust and Diamonds" over and over. It makes me sad but I guess life is sad.

    • @seansa6f916
      @seansa6f916 Před 4 lety +2

      استغفر الله العظيم

  • @itsclurg
    @itsclurg Před 3 lety +38

    The Divers album is literally a loop. Blew my mind when I found that out. I will never ever regret seeing her live. If you ever get the chance....

  • @o.steinman3855
    @o.steinman3855 Před 3 lety +13

    okay but her jumping between the piano and the harp like that is such a fat flex

  • @abongile464
    @abongile464 Před 4 lety +56

    "Transmit Tran_Sending the first scouts over" a secret we all share with joanna... she's so personal

  • @strangenessandcharms
    @strangenessandcharms Před 4 lety +33

    7:44. You play the piano and then switch to the harp. Her talent is otherworldly. I love her so much.

  • @Una...
    @Una... Před rokem +10

    First time hearing this. Sobbing like a heart broken child.

  • @juliancordoba8627
    @juliancordoba8627 Před 4 lety +28

    I just clapped out loud when she did that.

  • @BooksRebound
    @BooksRebound Před 2 měsíci +1

    3:13 the verse here really gets me. It's sooo beautiful and heartbreaking

  • @nathy12ful
    @nathy12ful Před 4 lety +22

    i cant stop crying omfg

  • @tdank6165
    @tdank6165 Před 3 lety +25

    this is the best video on the internet

  • @izzyizzy8074
    @izzyizzy8074 Před 2 lety +8

    I was at this performance. Never gonna forget it

  • @chim-choo-ree
    @chim-choo-ree Před 3 lety +10

    My god. She is the absolute best ever.

  • @dmimar2919
    @dmimar2919 Před 3 lety +17

    This song makes me so emotional.. I can believe she can sing such beautiful words without trembling... beautiful soul!!!

  • @nectarandice
    @nectarandice Před 4 lety +24

    She's playing right in the pocket when she swaps from keys to harp and back again! Luscious!!

  • @e0e1e3e2
    @e0e1e3e2 Před 3 lety +9

    she went from harp to piano like HOLY SHI

  • @ritchie07
    @ritchie07 Před 3 lety +10

    Joanna!!! You didn’t have to do THAT but I’m so fucking grateful you did!!!

  • @devonc3478
    @devonc3478 Před 4 lety +38

    Best performance of time as a symptom for me. Praaaaying she comes to London soon :(

    • @poppyalice3950
      @poppyalice3950 Před 4 lety +9

      Devon C I’ve been waiting for so long for her to play a UK show! I don’t even care where! I will travel!!

    • @Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh
      @Rehhhhhhhhhhhhh Před 3 lety +5

      Broooo, I hope you get to see her perform at least once. Her artistry is unreal and seeing it live is transcending. I was there at this performance and literally my only regret in life is not seeing her perform the next night. She's the greatest recording artist of all time.

  • @RoryBland
    @RoryBland Před rokem +6

    still to this day, seeing joanna newsom live in 2016 is the greatest concert i've ever seen. she is truly whimsical

  • @kit__mit
    @kit__mit Před 4 lety +37

    basically a religious experience

  • @alisha3205
    @alisha3205 Před 4 lety +8

    Mad at myself for not discovering this sooner

  • @cansinmusic
    @cansinmusic Před 19 dny +1

    She is amazing ❤

  • @MarleeTheKing
    @MarleeTheKing Před 4 lety +9

    God damn she is absolutely wonderful

  • @kaeleemallo6256
    @kaeleemallo6256 Před 4 lety +17

    this is so beautiful. i'm sobbing at 3 in the morning listening to this

  • @sidd676
    @sidd676 Před 3 lety +12

    Sending the first scouts over
    Back from the place beyond the dawn
    Horse, bear your broken soldier
    Eyes frozen wide at what went on
    And time, in our camp, is moving
    As you'd anticipate it to
    But what is this sample proving?
    Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do
    I kid with rufous nightjar
    When our men are all asleep
    It ain't about how rare you are
    But how hard you are to see
    Take, you and me
    When are you from, said he
    In our blind of winter leaves
    As we sighted out their fliers
    In the grayscale of the night
    And fumbled on the bare ground
    To bury round landmines
    While the dew lay down and dried
    We signal private poorwill, when morning starts to loom:
    Pull up from your dive
    Till we hear the telltale Boom
    Too soon
    Hotdogging loon, caught there
    Like a shard of mirror in the moon
    Now they've stopped giving orders
    But i follow anyway
    Laying in our state of torpor
    Waiting out the day
    While the dew burns away
    Rushing, tearing, speeding home
    Bound to a wheel that is not my own
    Where round every bend I long to see
    Temporal infidelity
    All along the road, the lights stream by
    I want to go where the dew won't dry
    I want to go where the light won't bend
    Far as the eye may reach, nor end
    But inasmuch as that light is loaned
    And, insofar as we've borrowed bones
    Must every debt now be repaid
    In star-spotted, sickle-winged night raids
    While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars
    And we sing in the meantime
    Wherever you are?
    In the folds and the branches
    Somewhere, out there
    I was only just born into open air
    Now hush, little babe
    You don't want to be
    Down in the trenches
    Remembering with me
    Where you will not mark my leaving
    And you will not hear my parting song
    Nor is there cause for grieving
    Nor is there cause for carrying on
    And daughter, when you are able
    Come down and join, the kettle's on
    And your family's round the table
    Will you come down, before the sun is gone?

  • @evomag115
    @evomag115 Před 2 lety +6

    im like a third of these views
    you're wrong, joanna. this is life-giving

  • @KennyMelan
    @KennyMelan Před 3 lety +6

    I was feeling fine before this video. Then why am I crying now?

  • @lee-sq6ob
    @lee-sq6ob Před rokem +5

    Can anyone listen to this song without crying???

  • @MCPT59
    @MCPT59 Před 2 lety +5

    Wonderful stuff. Glad to hear she appreciates the Wake as well

  • @alicemarks7468
    @alicemarks7468 Před 2 lety +2

    This never gets old

  • @oonapans
    @oonapans Před 2 měsíci

    I was at this show, wow! No idea this video was out there. An amazing performance!

    • @TimBracken
      @TimBracken  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Glad you found the video! This was an amazing show. I managed to shoot a few of the songs, which I gathered here in a playlist: czcams.com/play/PLwdc0qZNx0tZebgvnH9KZStkKvu_qy5Tk.html

  • @williamroby3011
    @williamroby3011 Před 3 lety +6

    Four people forgot to trasmit: transcend

  • @alicemarks7468
    @alicemarks7468 Před rokem +1

    Aaaaaand I'm back here again

  • @feliponsh
    @feliponsh Před 4 lety +34

    Existence is a loop

  • @vivipotee4252
    @vivipotee4252 Před 3 lety +6

    she is soooo crazy

  • @miakaneen2242
    @miakaneen2242 Před 7 měsíci

    This song is so powerful. I can't even get through it without crying. Im confused why this song isn't one of her bigger hits because to me it's so much deeper and stronger than her other stuff

  • @brianplummer961
    @brianplummer961 Před 3 lety +3

    wow is all i can say. this is wow . thank you

  • @Natronwasserglas
    @Natronwasserglas Před 4 lety +9

    Thank you for filming and uploading all these videos, I just keep playing your playlist in the background on loop, its amazing, such beautiful audio quality and amazing performance. This one especially...I saw some of her New York shows last september and remember the moment I realized she was gonna do the TAAS/Anecdotes loop about halfway through TAAS, when I remembered that I had expected her to play Anecdotes because before this song the stage hands had arranged the harp to help her make the switch...I sat there too shocked to continue crying for a second and still couldn't believe it when it actually happened. Absolutely incredible.

  • @michelleinhawaii
    @michelleinhawaii Před rokem

    touchstone song 🙌

  • @selkie168
    @selkie168 Před 2 lety +1

    holy shit, this is amazing.

  • @alicemarks7468
    @alicemarks7468 Před 2 měsíci

    just crying

  • @mayathirkell
    @mayathirkell Před rokem

    Ridiculously beautiful. Gives me tingles every time.

  • @TheMonolake
    @TheMonolake Před 3 lety +1

    She is the Mistress .of the Universe

  • @TeraBitts
    @TeraBitts Před 4 lety +22

    Andy Samberg is a lucky man

  • @BlueCliff72
    @BlueCliff72 Před rokem

    SHE JUST SWITCHES

  • @zesius21
    @zesius21 Před 4 lety +3

    Hi guys, not to be rude but I don't get the good about this. I'm so sorry. Please educate me.

    • @alexlight4178
      @alexlight4178 Před 4 lety

      Check out her song Easy, studio version. More accessible

    • @rumademedoit
      @rumademedoit Před 3 lety +4

      @Don Fatale thats true. her music isn’t for everybody bc her sound is so truly unique

    • @alejandrolizama9564
      @alejandrolizama9564 Před 3 lety +1

      Personally, i just like it because yes, her harp skills and her unique way or singing, it relax me, but i understand it may not be the like of everyone. If i can recomend something from her it would be the Ys album, specially Monkey and Bear and Emily.

    • @sidd676
      @sidd676 Před 3 lety +8

      Even if you don't like her voice, in this video you can clearly see her exceptional talent her vocal capacity like cmon

  • @pierre-louisparotin9883

    You're as good at singing as jake is at being a cop (plz french boy here)