Joy and strength through poetry, courtesy of Tank and the Bangas : NPR

Since the NPR’s Liny desk The concert series launched in 2008, a range of dizzying of musicals showed behind iconic desk. From Yo-i but at Billie land at Anderson .pAak at your reallyis almost impossible to choose a favored performance. But when the tank and the bangas played a set In 2017, as the winners of that year-old attacker of that year has brought such a performance of exercise, spontaneity and if you could look for youtube.

Since 2011, when the band members have met a new orleans ‘quarries’ quarries of the terrion, both who have an apprenticeship of expression, pitch and color. The tanks itself equal soul parts, eternal child, fall to the ground and ground and land the creative spirit on the clouds that may be made by cotton candy. Spotiary to write poetry as a continued years, and then started their words in music, create a significative contains of human experience, their companions and valleys.

Tank wants to fly high when we had this conversation to the blue note in New York. She had only heard the exhilarant news that his recording recording, a word collection speaks three-part called The heart, the mind, the soulhad earned a grammar nomination for the best talk a word of pure word. His phone blows with congratulations, and his mood was ebbulent. With this project, she intentionally indicates themselves in the bone as a lazy his life, shared the ninth for his childhood and the soul that brought to discover their strength cum ‘and a woman in this world.

The track of opening The heart it’s called “A poem is” – a song that clearly shows the tank mission to define in their poetry itself as music for our time. In their own words: “I want poetry be more respect and even younger to enter the expression of poetry. I want to be seen as fresh.” And if someone can fulfill that mission with intemporinal energy and grace – and a bit of cotton magic – is tank.