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She recorded this song by George Harrison and improvised new lyrics. She addresses the state of the world in a heartbreaking way. The recording just shakes with feeling. I saw Nina Simone the first time she came back to NYC at Carnegie Hall in about 1992 and it was only half sold. I clung to the balcony rails and cried for 2 hours.
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I have a strong memory of a walk I took when I was a particularly moody teenager full of all those super intense feelings that you can access super easily at that age. I was listening to All Things Must Pass and it was pouring rain and I was crying the whole time. Sometimes I can still feel those feelings when I listen to âIsnât It a PityâÂ
Jun 20, 2024
I would also be remiss if I didnât recommend some Nina Simone, who has such an incredible voice. Her version of âThe Other Womanâ is feels absolutely tragic.
Mar 7, 2025
The Nina Simone piano cover. that crescendo pulls all the right strings to bring out the waterworks
Apr 29, 2024
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Billyâs is my favorite music in the world. His whole catalog is immortal. He just released a new piece called September 23rd. It is a loop based ambient work comprised of a piano melody cut up from the early 80s that has been treated and processed. I always say Basinskiâs music is the most helpful artwork I have ever known. I must have listened to his records for tens of thousands of hours. I am playing it before my concerts.
Dec 26, 2024
Buffy is a remarkable song writer and activist. To me she is one the great American song writers of the last century, and she identifies the crisis of capitalism and the cruelty of these structures we are all beholden to in such a visceral way; her artwork is singular. I will always be grateful to her for her vision and her generosity as an artist.Â
Dec 26, 2024
In 2016, I was privileged to visit the Martu in  Parnngurr, a remote West Australian Indigenous Community located 370kms East of Newman, on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. The Martu I met changed the way I thought about life. One elder there, Nola Taylor, told me that after we die we âGo Back to Countryâ. She seemed to be suggesting that we remained in the world in some form, and that we do not leave upon death, challenging ideas I had learned as a child that our goal as humans was to escape the cycle of creation. That desire for escape from Nature seems dysphoric to me now.
Dec 26, 2024