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美国国家公共电台 NPR These Tiny Desk Contest Entrants Bring Mini-Symphonies To The NYC Subway

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

Recently, we've been listening to some of the standouts from the more than 6,000 entries into this year's NPR Tiny Desk Contest. And today, it's Bandits On The Run. In their video submission1, the trio performs on a completely empty New York City subway platform.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE IN THE UNDERGROUND")

BANDITS ON THE RUN: (Singing) I - I spent my ticket to ride going nowhere on a train past midnight. Bright city lights flicker2 in my eye...

MCCAMMON: Bandits on The Run is Sydney Shepherd on cello3, Regina Strayhorn on melodica and Adrian Enscoe playing guitar. And they join us now from, no surprise, our New York bureau.

Welcome to the program.

SYDNEY SHEPHERD: Hello.

ADRIAN ENSCOE: Thanks for having us.

REGINA STRAYHORN: Thanks.

MCCAMMON: And I should note, you all have aliases4, right? Adrian, you go by Roy Dodger5, I'm told.

ENSCOE: That's right.

MCCAMMON: Regina, you're known as Clarissa.

STRAYHORN: Mmm hmm.

MCCAMMON: And, Sydney, Bonanza6 Jellyfish - what's that?

SHEPHERD: That is correct (laughter).

MCCAMMON: Should I even ask why?

SHEPHERD: Well, we all sort of based our banded aliases on things in literature or pop culture that inspired us. And one of my favorite books is "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues7" by Tom Robbins. And there's a character named Bonanza Jellybean in there. So it's kind of a homage8 to that.

MCCAMMON: OK, so onto the music. Your submission to NPR's Tiny Desk Contest is called "Love In The Underground." And as I understand it, there is indeed a love story here. Is that right?

ENSCOE: (Laughter).

SHEPHERD: Yes.

ENSCOE: Yeah, that's right. Me and Sydney actually met on a subway platform in New York City about five years ago. And I had been busking around town frequently. And Sydney had come down late at night on a platform where there were also very few people. And we just - she was listening to me. And we just started chatting about playing music and art and that kind of things. And one thing led to the next. And we ended up having a long conversation that extended deep into the night. And we knew that we were musicians. We started kind of collaborating9 a little bit. Sydney and Regina had had written a lot of songs together when they went to school before.

SHEPHERD: Regina and I went to college together, so we go way back.

ENSCOE: (Laughter).

MCCAMMON: So Sydney and Adrian, you sort of start dating and the band sort of forms from that.

(LAUGHTER)

ENSCOE: So we learned, I think, three songs. And then I was like let's go down into the subway. And we just started playing these songs in the subway.

STRAYHORN: And we played those three songs over and over again because the audience left every 15 minutes. So it worked out.

MCCAMMON: I want to talk about - more about your music in a second. But real quick, Regina, I got to ask. What's it like being, you know, the third member of the band when the other two members are a couple?

STRAYHORN: Oh, my. Well, you know what? It is good. It's all - you know, obviously a lot of fire. And I think that fire makes good music.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE IN THE UNDERGROUND")

BANDITS ON THE RUN: (Singing) But we're not strangers now. Finally found love in the underground.

MCCAMMON: Well, you three have some pretty intricate, complex harmonies. You know, how do you - what's your process like? How do you develop those sounds?

SHEPHERD: We all actually didn't go to music school. We went to acting10 school. So I feel like a lot of the sort of music that we end up creating is very intuitive. So a lot of the harmonies, like, sometimes we don't even know what note we're singing, but we know that it feels right.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE IN THE UNDERGROUND")

BANDITS ON THE RUN: (Vocalizing).

SHEPHERD: And then it's a lot of repetition. And it's a lot of experimentation11 with that. And we know each other's voices so well by now that it's actually a very fast process, which is interesting. Like, sometimes we're writing the harmonies as we're writing the music. Like, it's sort of baked in to the fabric12 of the songwriting. It's not really just something that comes afterwards as an arrangement. And we don't really have like a set - like, you always do bottom, you always you middle, you always do top. Like, our things very much weave in and out of each other. And I think that's what keeps the sound interesting. I don't know. It's an interesting alchemy with the three of us.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE IN THE UNDERGROUND")

BANDITS ON THE RUN: (Singing) What a strange and sudden sound. But we're not strangers now. Finally found love in the underground.

MCCAMMON: The New York City subway is such a part of your story, it sounds like, you know, from your origin story even to how you put your music together. So it's fitting, I guess, that the song that you submitted "Love In The Underground" is filmed underground in a New York City subway station. So it's really fun to watch, I have to say. But I kept watching it and thinking how did you pull that off, how did you manage to find an empty train station in New York.

(LAUGHTER)

STRAYHORN: Well, it was late at night, first off. But it was funny. We set everything up. And there - one of the MTA workers came up and was very disgruntled and was like, you need a permit. You need a permit for this and do you have a permit? And we just went no (laughter).

SHEPHERD: But we were so - we were so not subtle about it, either. Like, our sound engineer brought down, like, all these microphones and, like, we were kind of, like, taking up a lot of space. So we couldn't really play dumb too much because we were just like, oh, yeah, we're definitely shooting a video down here.

STRAYHORN: Yeah.

SHEPHERD: It's, like, very obvious.

STRAYHORN: And so the - and the MTA worker left. But then 30 minutes later, the cops came. But it was actually a very New York moment because it turns out that I knew them. I'd served them coffee at a coffee shop close by, like, a million times and given them a bunch of free coffee. And so they were like, hey, sorry, it's all about money, but you can't do this. And we're like it's OK. We already got the takes. So have a great night. Thank you.

SHEPHERD: (Laughter) So then...

MCCAMMON: So that 30 minutes was enough.

STRAYHORN: Yes.

ENSCOE: Oh, yeah.

SHEPHERD: (Laughter).

ENSCOE: Every single take, though, we were wondering...

SHEPHERD: We were a little nervous.

ENSCOE: ...Are we going to get arrested for this?

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE IN THE UNDERGROUND")

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The next L train is now arriving on the Manhattan-bound track.

MCCAMMON: That's Sydney Shepherd, Adrian Enscoe and Regina Strayhorn of Bandits On The Run - one of our standout entries from this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

Thank you all so much for speaking with us.

ENSCOE: Thanks for having us, Sarah.

STRAYHORN: Thank you.

SHEPHERD: Thank you.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE IN THE UNDERGROUND")

BANDITS ON THE RUN: (Singing) In the city of a million doors, open one, there's a million more, so what is it that you're waiting for, waiting for (ph)...


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1 submission lUVzr     
n.服从,投降;温顺,谦虚;提出
参考例句:
  • The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
  • No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。
2 flicker Gjxxb     
vi./n.闪烁,摇曳,闪现
参考例句:
  • There was a flicker of lights coming from the abandoned house.这所废弃的房屋中有灯光闪烁。
  • At first,the flame may be a small flicker,barely shining.开始时,光辉可能是微弱地忽隐忽现,几乎并不灿烂。
3 cello yUPyo     
n.大提琴
参考例句:
  • The cello is a member of the violin family.大提琴是提琴家族的一员。
  • She plays a melodious cello.她拉着一手悦耳的大提琴。
4 aliases 9299da2529c98fccce0e32b476ba3266     
n.别名,化名( alias的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Can you allow the user to enter aliases for the longer entries? 可以允许用户为过长的文字选择别名吗? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • The criminal has several aliases. 该罪犯有数个化名。 来自辞典例句
5 dodger Ku9z0c     
n.躲避者;躲闪者;广告单
参考例句:
  • They are tax dodgers who hide their interest earnings.他们是隐瞒利息收入的逃税者。
  • Make sure she pays her share she's a bit of a dodger.她自己的一份一定要她付清--她可是有点能赖就赖。
6 bonanza ctjzN     
n.富矿带,幸运,带来好运的事
参考例句:
  • Bargain hunters enjoyed a real bonanza today.到处买便宜货的人今天真是交了好运。
  • What a bonanza for the winning ticket holders!对于手持胜券的人来说,这是多好的运气啊。
7 blues blues     
n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐
参考例句:
  • She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
  • He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。
8 homage eQZzK     
n.尊敬,敬意,崇敬
参考例句:
  • We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare.我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰。
  • The soldiers swore to pay their homage to the Queen.士兵们宣誓效忠于女王陛下。
9 collaborating bd93aed5558c4b146fa553d822f7c432     
合作( collaborate的现在分词 ); 勾结叛国
参考例句:
  • Joe is collaborating on the work with a friend. 乔正与一位朋友合作做那件工作。
  • He was not only learning from but also collaborating with Joseph Thomson. 他不仅是在跟约瑟福?汤姆逊学习,而且也是在和他合作。
10 acting czRzoc     
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
参考例句:
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
11 experimentation rm6x1     
n.实验,试验,实验法
参考例句:
  • Many people object to experimentation on animals.许多人反对用动物做实验。
  • Study and analysis are likely to be far cheaper than experimentation.研究和分析的费用可能要比实验少得多。
12 fabric 3hezG     
n.织物,织品,布;构造,结构,组织
参考例句:
  • The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
  • I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
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