Artists who play the Tiny Desk aren’t all the time positive what they’re stepping into. “I wasn’t anticipating it to be in a giant constructing,” lady in crimson‘s Marie Ulven tells the NPR crowd. “I believed I used to be going to enter a bit home or one thing.”
Any confusion apart, Ulven and her band ship a set appropriate for the type of cozy area she imagined, certainly one of real allure, good humor and unbridled pleasure — a vibe that lady in crimson has all the time cultivated via music. She will be able to discover trigger for celebration even in life’s bleakest moments, like when Ulven and the band deploy rapid-fire handclaps throughout a tune in regards to the vacancy of unrequited love (“Phantom Ache”) or the best way she says “Melancholy!” with a smile and a cheerleader’s fist within the air simply earlier than “Summer time Melancholy.” “It is a regular factor to really feel like this,” she sings, providing a much-needed dose of heat and empathy on what was an in any other case chilly, overcast day in Washington, D.C.
SET LIST
- “Phantom Ache”
- “Summer time Melancholy”
- “Too A lot”
- “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend”
MUSICIANS
- Marie Ulven: vocals, guitar
- Martin Dybal: guitar, music director
- Henrik Bakken: bass
- Bror Brorson: guitar
- Erlend Hisdal: drums
- Viljar Dunđerović: keys, piano
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Zayrha Rodriguez
- Audio Engineer: Josh Newell
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Sofia Seidel
- Tiny Desk Crew: Lars Gotrich, Maia Stern
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins