On my way to get some coffee on Friday before work the radio was tuned in to KRCL and heard some pretty cool music. I was only half way awake as I had been stuck at work the night before and wasn’t really paying attention cause they were talking, not playing music, which I hate. Anyway, after a minute or two the interviewer asked the women being interviewed to perform a song.

It only took a second or two before I was mesmerized. This artist was playing cello while singing and it was really good. Not your standard cello but it was all funky and mixed up. Her voice was cool too, I guess she doesn’t consider herself a song writer at all but you can tell she has quite a bit of classical music theory under her belt. Anyway after she finished she said she was playing in SLC Friday and Saturday so I figured I would surpise Ang and go out to see her on Saturday.

I couldn’t remember where or when she was playing, again I was half asleep, but I did remember her name. So I got on her wordpress site and left her a message hoping I would hear back before the show. Well sure enough, she was cool enough to send me an email about the show and off we went. It was a great night, we stopped at the Bayou and had some expensive beer and food then sat through a wonderful show.

I don’t really know how to explain her performance but I can tell you I was really blown away. I was very interesting with all sorts of different sounds and techniques, a lot seemed pretty experimental to me. Being a huge Bjork fan, she really reminded me a lot of her, especially how she would compose some of her songs from sounds we are not at all used to, like slamming her cello with her hand as hard as she could or dragging a needle across a record by hand, all the while carefully crafting her song on the fly using loops. Way cool stuff.

To my delight she finished her encore by covering a Bjork song! If you get a chance check her out, she is from Salt Lake but lives full time in NYC now. I’m sure she will be back and I would recommend the show if you can make it.