I’m currently obsessed with the Fleet Foxes’ Black Cab Session of Crayon Angels. You can watch it here, or play the YouTube vid below.*

Fleet Foxes from Black Cab Sessions on Vimeo.

(I tried to embed directly from the BCS website but Vimeo didn’t give me permission)

If you’re not familiar with the Black Cab Sessions, it’s a website on which you see many famous artists (the likes of Calexico, Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, and Death Cab for Cutie) play a song, in a London cab, in one unedited take.

The result is, invariably, an incredibly poetic delivery of a song set against shimmery backdrop glimpses of the city through cab windows.

My ever-present companion in life has always been music. I will forever be in love with its spontaneity, its ability to stir the spirit regardless of whether you are a listener or a player (as opposed to a ‘playa’), its ability to evoke memories of the past and visions of the future.

The poignancy of the Black Cab Sessions stirs me in a way that is part-and-parcel identical to the joy I feel while performing and singing, and to that which I experience every. single. time. I practice yoga.

One might say both are trains to the astroplane. Or ways to see the ‘god’ to which you relate.

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