Damien Rice is an amazing artist with great talent. His voice and his style stand in a class of their own. Another great thing about Damien is that he’s worked closely with Lisa Hannigan on a lot of his tracks. Putting these two artists in the same room is like putting early Simon and Garfunkel together.
I’m not sure if these tracks, like yesterday’s post about Simon and Garfunkel, actually qualify as Christmas music but seeing as how this is my blog, and I don’t really care, I can post whatever I feel like. So here’s some tracks from Mr. Rice. Enjoy the tunes.
Well, while I wait for the underwater fiber optic cables to be repaired, not to mention my fileserver is going through some allegedly massive overhauls, I’m relegated to posting short little rants about worldwide internet and how thoroughly bad their service is.
All that aside I might have found a loophole to jump through for the next couple of weeks. And that loophole is ye old Yousendit. I’m old enough to remember when Yousendit was the king of the hill, before upstarts like Gigasize, MyDataBus, and Filelodge [etc. etc. etc.] undercut their user base.
Anyway, I’m not even sure if I posted this song before. In some trick of the twentieth century I’m not able to post to my blog but I can’t view it. It’s really rather hilarious. But as funny as that may be this song is not. It’s Damien Rice with his partner in crime Lisa Hannigan singing their own special rendition of Silent Night. I know Christmas is long gone, but this song is worth a listen at any point in the year.
Please watch the above video, you will not be disappointed. It’s Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan performing 9 Crimes live on The Tonight Show. If I had to use one word to describe this performance it would be ‘haunting.’
Damien Rice has always held my mind captive. It’s as if his voice demands that I listen to what he’s saying, even if it’s a song about Eskimos. There’s a certain plaintive quality to his voice, a sense of urgency that says “if you don’t listen, I just might fade away to nothing.” And so I listen, and so should you. He really is a great song writer, and apparently he has great stage presence as well.
