The pot lid did not sound the best way we needed. “What about our Webby?” I recommended. The award statue’s metallic spring had simply the correct amount of wobble — a trip cymbal with a drip like Dalí. What you are about to see has by no means been tried on the Tiny Desk earlier than: small, MIDI-triggered robots strike and vibrate glass bottles, espresso mugs, plastic wrap and a pizza field to make futuristic music out of the current’s refuse and garbage. What band in addition to clipping. might pull this off?
For greater than 15 years, clipping. has made its title from the deconstruction and celebration of hip-hop. This live performance takes that philosophy actually: Producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson spent months digging by way of thrift shops to search out the appropriate clinks, clangs and clongs that would reshape their hypnotic melodies and serrating beats. A sturdy cardboard field turns into the kick drum. A series bouncing off aluminum foil, the hi-hat. A panoply of glasses, bottles and mugs, the synths. Harmonium, piano and fretless bass fill out the perimeters. Child Koala, a turntablist whose distinctive model little question has had an affect on clipping., friends on “Evening of Heaven” and “Work Work.”
This set, that includes songs that span 2014’s CLPPNG to 2025’s Lifeless Channel Sky, exemplifies the concept that one thing thrilling and exquisite might be created from the noise and particles of on a regular basis life. Daveed Diggs, eternally sport to exquisitely rap over no matter inventive chaos bursts from his cohorts, sums up the method completely: “Thank y’all for this chance to do needlessly sophisticated s***.”
SET LIST
- “Nothing is Secure”
- “True Believer”
- “Code”
- “Dodger”
- “Evening of Heaven”
- “Work Work”
MUSICIANS
- Daveed Diggs: vocals
- Jonathan Snipes: electronics, harmonium, melodica, desk of nonsense
- William Hutson: percussion, loon name, desk of nonsense
- Sharon Udoh: vocals, piano
- David Rothbaum: bass
- Child Koala: turntables
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Lars Gotrich
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Body, Sofia Seidel
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
- Copy Editor: Daoud Tyler-Ameen
- Photographer: Maansi Srivastava
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Govt Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton