Song of the Day
The talented musician and performance artist Imogen Heap
Hide and Seek- Imogen Heap Imogen is the vivacious, funny and gorgeous performance artist, singer and multi-instrumentalists who has greatly expanded her following via her confessional video blog on YouTube, over the past couple of years. Imogen is also a member of Frou Frou a band that hasn't been very active over the past five or so years.
Imogen began her v-blog in 2007, when she moved back into her family house and built a recording studio to begin work on her third solo album
Elipse which was finally released just a couple of weeks ago to much critical acclaim. Imogen has made her blog a showcase for her whimsical musings, her skewed sense of humor and her considerable musical talents. The v-blog is also the story of her own struggles with the creative process and the difficulties of making an album without any assistance from a record label or the mainstream institutions of popular music.
Imogen reminds me a quite bit of Laurie Anderson the New York City performance artist who pioneered avant garde electronica in the 80s. Laurie is also the wife of V.U. founder and rock and roll animal Lou Reed.
Below is a live performance of
Hide and Seek by Imogen on a live Internet music show.
Hide and Seek
Lyrics and Music by Imogen Heap
Where are we? What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to fall,
Crop circles in the carpet, sinking, feeling.
Spin me round again and rub my eyes.
This can't be happening.
When busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy.
Hide and seek.
Trains and sewing machines.
All those years they were here first.
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before.
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this
still life.
Hide and seek.
Trains and sewing machines. (Oh, you won't catch me around here)
Blood and tears,
They were here first.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it's all for the best? Ah of course it is.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it's just what we need? And you decided this.
Mmm what you say?
What did she say?
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.
Speak no feeling, no I don't believe you.
You don't care a bit. You don't care a bit.
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.
Speak no feeling, no I don't believe you.
You don't care a bit. You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
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The World Famous Imogen Heap Video Blog Imogen began her v-blog in 2007, when she moved back into her family house and built a recording studio to begin work on her third solo album
Elipse which was finally released just a couple of weeks ago to much critical acclaim. Imogen has made her blog a showcase for her whimsical musings, her skewed sense of humor and her considerable musical talents. The v-blog is also the story of her own struggles with the creative process and the difficulties of making an album without any assistance from a record label or the mainstream institutions of popular music.
Embedded below is my favorite episode (#24) of Ms. Heap's v-blog in which she demonstrates how to play a Burmese percussion instrument called the hang. Imogen's larger than life personae has the velocity of a tsunami. For all her her mile a minute verbage, she's a fascinating raconteur with a natural talent for story telling.