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| my MJEML bandmate, Rachel Blumenthal caught this awesome moment |
Nate Greenslit (of HUMANWINE) and Vessela Stoyanova (of Goli) just launched their brand new project, Bury Me Standing with a month-long residency at the Lizard Lounge. I liked the band name before I knew what it meant, and I liked it even more after I found out that it’s an old Gypsy saying, “At least when I die, bury me standing, because I’ve been on my knees all of my life.” They played, in their words, a set of “Balkan folk music, thrash metal, and psychedelic avant-pop.” I was honored to have been asked to sing a cover of System of a Down’s “War?” with them. The next week, Mali Sastri of Jaggery sang the same song with them. It was really cool to see how we each approached the song – which is very heavy/screamy with some weird vocal rhythm stuff. I walked around for a full week just repeating the lyrics to myself!
Here is the videographic evidence:
and Mali singing it the next week (I love the extra scream she added in between chorus lines):
I also got a couple of other videos of Bury Me Standing: link; link; and here they are singing Happy Birthday in the mind-bending time-signature of 19/8; and another video of Mali singing with BMS.
[…] In other random music events, I was delighted to be asked to sing a System of a Down song with a group called Bury Me Standing in October – it was a awesome arrangement of marimba, horns, strings, back-up singers – and also resulted in one of my favorite photos of the year. VIDEO/BLOG link. […]