It's hard to spot everything Hauschka deployed for this mostly improvised set, from pink putty to strings stuffed with tin foil.
It's hard to spot everything Hauschka deployed for this mostly improvised set, from pink putty to strings stuffed with tin foil., back in 2010, he dumped handfuls of Ping-Pong balls and anything else he could think of over the strings of our in-house grand piano, a performance captured in one of NPR's pristine studios . But for the Tiny Desk, the pianist and composer assumed the challenge of preparing our significantly smaller upright in a much-less-controlled environment.
Hauschka is joined by cellists Carol Anne Bosco and Devree Lewis who, since the set was mostly improvised, were told to simply come on"about 10 minutes" into his performance. Note that the songs are named for the location they were performed, in this case"Washington," and numbered. The closing cut,"Loved Ones," is from his latest album,
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