Now here’s one I made earlier
Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna) curates an exhibition featuring Rotterdam-based duo Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum at ADN Platform Barcelona from 25 January – 30 April 2014. The exhibition opens with a performance by avant-folk maverick, Nathaniel Robin Mann. He will be unveiling a process-based performance piece, featuring a new song from his ever-expanding repertoire of songs about other people who have to work for a living. This time it’s the Basque work song Oi Pello Pello – a dialogue between a tired spinster and her unsympathetic boss.
First collected in Cancionero Popular Vasco in 1918, the song was popularized by singer-songwriter Mikel Laboa, founder of “Ez Dok Amairu” (“There is no 13”), the cultural movement of Basque poets, musicians and artists.
Nathan plans to sing the song to accompany a video showing men and women at work in the Lea Artibai region in Basque Country, where they trim rubber parts destined for the global automobile industry
In classic Blue Peter style, he intends to assemble a small radio by hand during the performance, through which he will then transmit the song, performing a duet with himself. What could possibly go wrong?
Update: here’s a video of the performance.
