joyful noise

[marycrawford]

I found this so charming, both the story behind the last minute collaboration and the feedback loop where the music makes the audience happy, which makes the organist happy, which makes me happy to watch:

"I often do middle-of-the-night practice sessions at the Royal Albert Hall , and have grown rather fond of hall staff calling up to the organ with requests. At 1am on Friday 20th, someone called up asking me to play Bach's Toccata in D minor. It turned out it was Bonobo's band. 12 hours later they had written me an organ part, and 18 hours later I was helping them close their show to an audience of 5000. This was, undoubtedly, the best moment of my life so far...!"

(warning for strobe lights and general light FX)

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Comments

[sef1029]

That's so fun!

[nnozomi]

This is great! Also, I love the idea of regular middle-of-the-night organ practices, and requests from the hall staff...

[miss_ingno]

Ohh, this was an interesting watch! What a sweet backstory, and I liked how they ended up mixing the two genres together, I'm always a fan of what should be clashing styles being merged :D

[elenothar]

This is lovely, I'm really enjoying her enjoyment! The Royal Albert Hall is a very neat venue (though, strangely, I've only been on the stage (as part of a background chorus, nothing grand) a couple of times, rather than ever in the audience - the one time we had tickets for something, Covid happened and I'm still very disappointed about missing that concert).

[tinny]

Amazing! Thanks for linking! <3