Live: Thao Nguyen In The Afternoon
- story THE FADER
We don’t know about you, but when we were young, we used to try to think of sentences that had never been said before and say them so we could be the first in the entire universe to have done a thing. “Peanut water concrete giftboxes delivered by flying squirrel via cell phone radiation sun screen is agitating and momentous on my 48th birthday.” Or whatever. And while someone has probably said “Sorry, I was thinking about boobies” before, that person probably was not Thao Nguyen apologizing to her band and crowd for a false start. While there is a context for that, you should make up your own. It’s better that way. But what you cannot make up is the little hip/ankle twist-shake she does, or the jazz snare drummerman snaps into place, or everyone drinking white wine straight from the bottle at three in the afternoon on Sunday at Soundfix in Brooklyn. We just had some chamomile, extra pep for “Beat (Health, Life and Fire),” to which they added some extra cha-cha handclaps. That song is on our iTunes Top 25 Most Played, and it’s definitely not even number 25. Jams!
Related:
- Gen F/Video: Thao Nguyen, “Bag Of Hammers”
- Premiere: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, “Know Better Learn Faster” MP3
- The FADER Issue 52: BLK JKS, Esau Mwamwaya, Kwaito, Hiplife, Tartit, T2, Thao Nguyen, High Places, Buraka Som Sistema, Valet, Fuck Buttons, Sweat X, Congotronics
- Video: Thao, “Swimming Pools”
- Video: The Portland Cello Project f. Thao, “Tallymarks”
- posted on Mar 24, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS
- tags rock, Thao Nguyen
