Little Desk (Household) Live performance : NPR

The Very small Desk is doing the job from household for the foreseeable long term. Introducing NPR Music’s Little Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from throughout the nation and the planet. It can be the exact same spirit — stripped-down sets, an personal setting — just a distinctive house.

For the Small Desk (home) live performance sequence, ‘home’ can imply many items. For CJ Camerieri and his undertaking CARM, home is exactly where the art is. He executed his live performance at the Pablo Centre in Eau Claire, Wisc., where the trumpeter and French horn player conceived and recorded all the tracks for his 2021 debut solo album, CARM. “This certain local community has been a actually large portion of my musical lifestyle for 10 many years,” CJ says immediately after playing the calming tune “Gentle Night time,” “so it would seem like the ideal area to be executing this.”

CJ Camerieri is a co-founder of the ensemble yMusic, a member of Paul Simon’s band, a collaborator with Bon Iver and a Tiny Desk alum. (You can hear his French horn with The Tallest Person On Earth from their 2019 Little Desk Live performance.) For this home live performance, Trever Hagen joins him to deliver the electronic pulse, trumpet, and other textures to the mix. On track two, he welcomes fellow Eau Claire musician S. Carey, a drummer and singer with Bon Iver, as perfectly as a person I’ve admired as a solo artist. In this article he plays piano and sings a music CJ co-wrote with Sufjan Stevens titled “Song of Trouble.” It really is a music published pre-pandemic and, like so many music, has taken on new importance. And that goes for both the jittery electronica and the calming horns we listen to it is really audio which is resonated with me all 12 months extended.

Set List

• “Gentle Evening”
• “Tune of Difficulty” (feat. S. Carey)
• “Nowhere”
• “Slantwise”

MUSICIANS

• CJ Camerieri: trumpet, French horn
• Trever Hagen: trumpet, electronics
• S. Carey: vocals, piano

CREDITS

• Video: Isaac Gale
• Audio: Brian Joseph

Very small DESK Crew

• Producer: Bob Boilen
• Online video Producer: Kara Body
• Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
• Affiliate Producer: Bobby Carter
• Tiny Manufacturing Team: Maia Stern
• Govt Producer: Lauren Onkey
• Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann