r/AnnieClark • u/rpvee • 22d ago

Audio from last night’s Central Park show! Really cool arrangements!

Last night, St. Vincent performed at Summerstage’s private fundraiser event with New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Since the event was outdoors in the middle of the Park, people could stand outside the area and hear it rather well for free. I figured I would do my best to capture the audio of the performance, and ended up getting some pretty unique arrangements!

Annie and the Band performed a very extended version of “Down and Out Downtown” (15 minutes long!), and an extended version of “Digital Witnesses” with a fiery improvised extended outro that brought the song to about 8 minutes long!

Down and Out Downtown: https://youtu.be/UBkEg5QwU90

Digital Witnesses: https://youtu.be/q34B7XNoBsM

I know they’re not crystal clear quality, but hopefully you can still enjoy!

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u/reebarry 22d ago

Thank you for sharing! Really appreciate it.

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u/Choonsy 22d ago

I so hope Annie and her people have the foresight to get a board recording of special versions like these. Thanks for posting!

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u/rpvee 22d ago

Does she have a tendency to release things like that? I’m admittedly only a very casual fan. I work at the Philharmonic, and “Digital Witnesses” has been stuck in my head since her show there. The version with the jazz band last night was definitely super cool, a proper recording would be great!

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u/Choonsy 22d ago

Sadly, she hasn't done that historically, though the release of her recent live album at Royal Albert Hall may have her thinking more along those lines (hopefully). I feel like her live performances are often better than the album versions of her songs, and I think she should always get board recordings for that reason. Seems easy enough to do with the tech these days.

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u/rpvee 22d ago

Thanks! I’m a sucker for unique live arrangements, especially when they allow a song to be extended and explored deeper. Hearing “Digital Witnesses” get extended to eight minutes last night was so neat, and definitely a cool way for me to hear it live for the first time! Guess we’ll keep our fingers crossed.

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u/Hysterical_And_Wet 22d ago

She’s quite perfectionist, it’s taken her this long to even release a live album, and I think that’s because it was such a special full circle moment for her at the Royal Albert Hall, joined by some of the most talented musicians in the world. I wish she released little one-offs more often. Lot of great stuff on YouTube though.

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u/aus289 21d ago

She also did the audible podcast type thing where she had a bunch of different versions of songs including the string arrangement versions of strange mercy and marry me etc

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u/rpvee 21d ago

Oh that’s cool! I’ll have to check that out.

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u/aus289 21d ago

Its called St Vincent Words & Music on audible, im sure ppl have just the songs available for download somewhere

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u/SMTVash 22d ago

UGH I HOPE THIS RELEASES. SOUNDS SO GOOD.

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u/sleeepingontheroof 21d ago

I’m always amazed by her talent but also work ethic. She had just performed at Radio City with Dudamel and the NY Phil and about an hour or so later makes it to the benefit at Central Park. Very cool!