Not really something I'm listening to at the moment, but the idea in itself is rather awesome and should be interesting to the music lovers in this thread.
Sometime in 2002, a Swedish artist (as in paint, video, installations, performance) bought the rights to a rather enigmatic Eighties love song called "You Don't Love Me Yet" and invited a number of local artists to perform versions of it at a small concerts. She subsequently recorded an all-singing, all-dancing version of it, complete with a small choir singing the main track and some form of bowed string instrument on lead and filmed and exhibited the recording. This, in itself, is only vaguely interesting. Next, however, she grabbed the idea and took it on the road.
Since then, she's been invited to exhibit at various places. At first throughout Sweden, then Scandinavia, then through the rest of the world. On the last night of every exhibition, as she did the first time in Sweden, she invites local bands and musicians to perform their own version of the song, however they see fit, as long as they stick to the lyrics. Thusfar, she's done this some 25 times, and at every exhibition, she sets up a table laden with DVD recordings of all the concerts, so you can sit down, ignore the videos being played on all sides and enjoy the sights and sounds of a hundred musicians performing one song a hundred ways.
The latest stop was this and last month in Oxford, my home town, but, alas, I won't be around for the concert.
Info and stuffs, including the Stockholm recording, are
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Pretty sweet stuff.
