The way a song is accompanied can have as much effect as the way it's sung, or its melody and words. At its best, a song can hit you in all these ways at once. Beth Gibbons, singer from the British band Portishead, has a new (and not yet released in the U.S.) CD called Out of Season, on which the accompaniments are varied to suit the songs, and the results are beautiful. Host David Garland offers several selections from this release, plus songs with orchestral accompaniment by Beck, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Sigur Ros, Aiko Shimada, and others. Also featured are songs with homemade, eccentric orchestrations by Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and The Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers.
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