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Make Up Your Own Vocals For Joanna Newsom's "Instrumental 1999"

Brett Warner
03/20/2012
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It's been a hot minute since we've heard any new music from hipster-friendly harpist Joanna Newsom. While you're busy waiting for a proper follow-up to 2010's Have One On Me, do yourself a major favor and check out a previously-unreleased instrumental Joanna tune from 1999 titled... get ready for it... "Instrumental 1999". According to our friends over at Drag City, the song was recorded during Newsom's formative years, back when she was "making waves in the greater Tahoe-area wedding-music circuit, and dreaming of a musical world somewhere between fin de siècle Symbolism and West African counterpoint." See, and I thought I was the only one who dreamed about that musical world!

Download a free mp3 copy of "Instrumental 1999" right here.

Music fans turned off by Joanna's voice (I know more than a couple of those) won't complain about its absence—"Instrumental 1999" is all gentle, sprawling, lush harp plucking... spacious, dreamy, evocative... insert your own feel-good adjective here. The modern classical influence is definitely on full-display, though there's also a distinct pop dynamic in her phrasing and rhythms that would later grow into fruition on 2004's The Milk-Eyed Mender. Sure, it's more of a rough sketch than a fully-formed song—but it's gorgeous background music that'd fit in splendidly on any naptime playlist.

p.s. "Instrumental 1999" is featured on a charity compilation CD called Harpfelt Connections (get it?) with proceeds going towards the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation. Since none of us will be paying for our download (ahem), feel free to visit their site and make a small donation right here. Thanks, guys.

Joanna fans—what do you think? Let us know in the comments section below.

Follow Brett Warner on Twitter: @Erasurehead

 

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