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After wrapping their 4th performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, band members from Bonobo heard someone rehearsing on the hall's enormous 9,999-pipe organ at 1am. They convinced her to join in for their last performance and wrote her part in secret. The audience was not informed.
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u/scottonaharley
Mar 23 '23
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I follow Anna Lapwood on instagram. You can find the back story to this there. She was rehearsing when the Bonobo music director shouted up to play Bach. After that they came up with the idea of incorporating the pipe organ into the performance.
She is a truly genuine person and her posts are always positive
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u/rexmons Mar 23 '23
I hadn't heard of her before this video but her joy brought me joy.
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u/Ttoctam Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
She played for Benedict Cumberbatch while he was getting a tour of the hall, and he loved it so much he asked her to do a performance at the end of show of his there. She was such a fan of his, and her seeing him moved to tears by her music is one of the most wholesome things I've ever seen.
Edit: The Performance in YouTube short form. I think Cumbledor's Letters Live clip is available in full as well and hopefully contains the full organ performance.
Edit 2: Couldn't find this anywhere other than Reddit's least favourite app, tiktok; but here's the full (3 min) story and video that was the super heartwarming one.
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u/Whoshabooboo Mar 24 '23
Any chance for a link to that? After watching this I would love to see this one as well.
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u/Ttoctam Mar 24 '23
I watched it over the course of several tiktoks as it happened, so I'll hunt for the more talky ones where she explains the situation and her and Cumblebatch's reactions. But for now I've linked the performance in the edit.
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u/Whoshabooboo Mar 24 '23
Can I just tell you I really appreciate you and thank you for sharing the link. You didn’t have to but you did anyway. You are awesome. I loved it and it was a nice break from stressing out over March Madness. I wish you the best!
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u/FabiusBill Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23 •
What you felt is the emotion mudita: vicarious joy.
Edit: thank you for the gold kind stranger! This is my first gilding that I know of.
I discovered mudita as an emotional expression many years ago and I love the idea so much, this inverse of envy, that I share it whenever appropriate.
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u/GozerDGozerian Mar 24 '23
What a wonderful word to have learned today.
Thank you!
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u/cola104 Mar 24 '23
Compersion may also be a fitting word, the opposite of jealousy, described as "the wholehearted participation in the joy of others".
Hadn't heard mudita before but I love it.
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u/SpongeJake Mar 24 '23
Having now learned two completely wholesome - and welcome - new words and adding them to my vocabulary, it’s probably time for me to exit Reddit for the night. I like leaving on a high note.
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u/Atlas-Scrubbed Mar 24 '23
You could just see the joy in her face when she played. Absolutely amazing.
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u/No_Spell_2683 Mar 24 '23
Christ... she became a Director of Music at an Oxbridge college at 21. Impressive as fuck.
Hot damn... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyxq39JN_sE&ab_channel=AnnaLapwoodVEVO
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u/Chapped_Frenulum Mar 24 '23
Yeah, she's a beast. I'm glad she's getting some recognition.
It's already insane enough for anyone to make a career playing pipe organ, considering access to one is insanely limited as it is. You need to prove your skills before you're even allowed to practice on it. And you need to practice on one before performing because they're all different and often somewhat cranky old mechanical instruments. Keyboard skills alone won't cut it.
Imagine it's like spending your whole life practicing on a bare fretboard before you're even allowed to pick up a guitar.
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u/No_Spell_2683 Mar 24 '23 •
It's already insane enough for anyone to make a career playing pipe organ, considering access to one is insanely limited as it is. You need to prove your skills before you're even allowed to practice on it.
I was reading that. Apparently, she started on piano and was good as hell at the harp. Then at 15, someone started letting her use their organ and she was apparently so damn good that she got an organ scholarship to Oxford... and apparently, that's the first one they've given to a woman in the entire college's history. Absolutely insane.
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u/TheArborphiliac Mar 24 '23
I read something, I think in the book Blink, where, after changing the auditions to be blind, so the performer sits behind a screen, the admission rates of women to a certain musical school like tripled or something (I just made that number up but it was a big jump).
Kind of crazy to me, I just can't imagine even considering that when I can hear what they're playing and whether or not it's good.
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u/skintwo Mar 24 '23
Not one school. THE ENTIRE ORCHESTRA INDUSTRY. It was insane. And remember-this is everywhere. Most jobs can't interview blind :(.
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u/3d_blunder Mar 24 '23
after changing the auditions to be blind, so the performer sits behind a screen,
IIRC, they also had to lay a carpet down, because the judges could tell gender by the sound of the auditioners' steps.
It's a sad commentary that gender bias managed to weasel its way into what should have been purely meritocratic. At least it's been addressed in some small degree.
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u/Locke92 Mar 24 '23
It's an important reminder that many systems can appear to be meritocratic while in fact being plagued by systemic bias. Indeed it would likely behoove us to assume systems have systemic biases unless proved otherwise...
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u/Missusmidas Mar 24 '23
Orchestras were horribly misogynistic for a long time. It wasn't until just 4 years ago that women were allowed to play in the Vienna Philharmonic, for instance.
I have a friend who auditioned for the "President's Own" Marine Band, and got in. Her audition was not only behind a screen (which is generally the rule for at least the early rounds of an audition), but she had to remove her shoes so the judges couldn't hear if the player might have heels on as they walked across the stage.
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u/Mechakoopa Mar 24 '23
Mostly commenting here as a reminder to myself and a suggestion to everyone else to come back later and listen to this with proper speakers or headphones as phone speakers just don't have the range to fully appreciate this.
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u/Dragonasaur Mar 24 '23
She must've been pretty big already if she has her own Wikipedia page
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u/ezone2kil Mar 24 '23
I was thinking no nobodies would be allowed to rehearse on that 9999 pipe organ.
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u/TripperDay Mar 24 '23
They couldn't afford one more pipe to make it an even 10k?
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u/rnzz Mar 24 '23
that's when all the 9,999 pipes combine together like power rangers robots to make one really long alpine horn
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u/Joessandwich Mar 23 '23
I just gave her a follow, she seems amazing and so incredibly talented. As someone once wisely said, stop following influences/models and start following artists… it’s much more inspiring.
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u/Plasibeau Mar 24 '23
Once I dropped all the news/political and celebutants/influencer shit my scroll became a lot more entertaining and my mental health vastly improved.
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u/Mr_YUP Mar 24 '23
tons of great artists that are worth following. every like and comment they get is immensity helpful too
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u/phrankygee Mar 24 '23
I inadvertently improved my quality of life by being banned from the politics subreddit.
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u/FlipThisAndThat Mar 24 '23
https://i.imgflip.com/7fmzhz.jpg
You are an inspiration Joessandwich.
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u/marvellouspineapple Mar 23 '23
Is she the same girl that Einaudi found playing Cornfields from Interstellar?
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u/scottonaharley Mar 24 '23
I’ve heard her play the interstellar theme on that organ. It’s pretty spectacular
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u/NotThatZachRoberts Mar 24 '23
I love how much she loves her awesome job. I’m guessing if you’re an organist there’s few better places to be.
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u/MiklaneTrane Mar 24 '23
She's my weirdest/most obscure celebrity crush.
Crazy talented musician, clearly super passionate about what she does, always putting positivity out into the world, cute af and that accent 😍
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u/shalafi71 Mar 24 '23
Her passion, damn that's attractive. Never knew what girls saw in rock stars until I was in a little bar on Cherry Street, Tulsa, OK. This young woman belted out Stevie Nicks and it was like she was standing in front me. Oh my.
And then my gf, who I had known in high school, starts singing opera on the couch. Oh my.
Talent is wildly hot.
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u/Cold_Situation_7803 Mar 24 '23
Yeah, love her IG content. She’s just a sweet, genuine and incredibly talented person.
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u/scottonaharley Mar 24 '23
Learning about pipe organs too. I’ve already decided if I visit the UK I would try to catch a performance or rehearsal. She has posted videos of followers coming to visit and her showing them the organ
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u/sykokiller11
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I’m not familiar with the band but I have heard a pipe organ in a large cathedral. The power cannot be described properly and no recording can do it justice. You have to be there. What a treat for that lucky audience. Just hearing this made all my hairs stand on end exactly like that time. Reading some of the comments I see I’m not the only one with watery eyes and sniffles! I know people who aren’t affected by music and I feel so bad for them.
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u/lavos__spawn Mar 23 '23
Stronggggggly agree!
Yeah, if you haven't experienced a large pipe organ in a resonant space...it's worth trying to get the chance at some point in life. There are few instruments beyond the human voice and singing together with others that are so incredibly physical. You can literally feel the consonance and dissonance by how they vibrate through your body.
Organ and piano have different technique, too. Organs cut off sound immediately when you let go of a key (there's no more air passed through the pipe) whereas a piano has a bit more resonance of the strings and has a fast action that allows nimble playing that could sound choppy on an organ. Organists learn to very slightly overlap when playing in exposed circumstances. Flip side though, when an organ is played in a space like this, a cut-off can hover in the air for seconds, and when it's gone that absence is so palpable.
This was such a fucking treat to listen. I totally had watery eyes too.
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u/cal679 Mar 24 '23
One of the coolest things with massive pipe organs like this is when you realise the building you're sitting in is basically part of the instrument as well. It's truly amazing sitting in a massive space like that and having the sound just fill the room.
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u/ariegel57 Mar 24 '23
I worked at Meadowbrook hall and the pipes went through all 3 floors of the house, it was absolutely insane.
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u/nsa_reddit_monitor Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
The local cathedral has a nice pipe organ, but when they were doing a bunch of maintenance and tuning a few years ago someone decided it didn't go hard enough. So they added two downward-firing subwoofers, each the size of a refrigerator. Standing next to one of those when the organist pulls all the stops is an experience all by itself. Your whole body vibrates in sync with the floor and the music.
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u/DuraMorte Mar 24 '23
"You know what this massive pipe organ needs? Some fuckin' SUBS."
Total stoner sound guy logic.
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u/Falanin Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
Hell yeah.
I mean, if you want bass like you can get out of a subwoofer you need a 16ft. stop for the regular bass lows, and a 32ft. rank of pipes for the really low and growly notes.
Not a lotta places have enough space for a 32ft tall set of pipes that are over a foot in diameter... and the 16ft pipes to go with so the big boys don't sound out of place... and an air system powerful enough to make a 32ft. pipe actually make noise.
Shit, our 16ft. open diapason stop is actually too big for my church, despite the pipes and air system fitting in nicely. It's loud enough and low enough that the organ will, no exaggeration, start shaking the building if you hold the right notes long enough.
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u/zeedonutnovel Mar 24 '23
Not trying to one up here or anything, but one of my favorite songs of the past year with pipe organ:
Earthside - 'All We Knew And Ever Loved' feat. Baard Kolstad of Leprous
Blow your fucking mind.
Absolutely love this song.
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Mar 24 '23 •
I knew my depression was improving when I actually started to feel something when listening to music again. It’s surreal. Music was such a huge part of my life in my teens, then by my early 20’s I just felt nothing. Now at 45, I’m starting to feel like a human being again.
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u/justausername99 Mar 24 '23
Same! It's amazing to rediscover music. It is truly one of life's greatest pleasures.
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u/sykokiller11 Mar 24 '23
Keep it up! Listen to new things. The best thing is being caught by surprise by a song or band you didn’t know before. It can be awe inspiring for sure.
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u/Original-Document-62 Mar 24 '23
I've been a bit of a musician my whole life... up until the past few years when I had a bunch of things go wrong with my life, and I just... stopped with music. Stopped playing, writing, and listening. It wasn't that I felt nothing... it's that I felt way too much. I'm trying right now to ease myself back into music. It can really trigger emotions though.
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u/Boredombringsthis Mar 23 '23
We had our highschool graduation ceremony in the castle chapel and one teacher played the student anthem on the castle organ. It was amazing. We suddenly felt so important :D
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u/FoxMajor1138 Mar 24 '23
There are just some instruments that are so visceral, so alive, and so haunting. Instruments that have their own soul, and when played by the right hands, are more than capable of making you feel their majesty. It's something you feel physically, but it also makes your soul cry out. As if it starts to bring emotions and memories of your past lives back. Personally, the pipe organ, hurty gurty, bagpipes, war drums, violin, and piano do this to me. There is something ANCIENT and primal about them. It takes you to a place you've never been to, and yearn for a home you've never known.
Sorry for the ramble, but I wish I had a better way to express or explain this phenomena.
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u/hughk Mar 24 '23
A pipe organ on this scale isn't an instrument as we understand it. It is just the "acoustic driver". The whole hall is the resonant cavity. It also means if you need to practice,, you have to find a good sized chapel or church.
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u/Earlier-Today Mar 24 '23
Yeah, notes from a huge pipe organ don't ring in your ears, they ring through your entire soul.
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u/CustosClavium Mar 24 '23
I went to my favorite monastery for Holy Week one year. All during Lent, liturgy is toned down to emphasize the penitential nature of the season. No Gloria is sung at mass, no Alleluia is uttered. On Good Friday the altar is stripped bare and all works of art are covered with a purple cloth to signify the death of Christ and his absence from the world. Then at the Easter Vigil, when the Gloria is finally to be sung, there is the Great Alleluia which gets increasingly loud to show the triumph of Christ over death.
They played what are essentially power chords on the pipe organ at full volume and strength. I could feel my whole body literally vibrating from the sound. Like in my very bones. It was absolutely amazing and you would have to be dead inside to not feel any emotional impact. The pipe organ is probably one of the greatest things mankind has ever created.
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u/sykokiller11 Mar 24 '23
Couldn’t agree more. It’s hard not to feel spiritual when you hear it. Regardless of your religion, or lack there of, for that matter!
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u/Primatebuddy Mar 24 '23
I am sitting here listening to it for the second time and I tear up in anticipation just as I did for the first. I can't imagine not feeling this way about music.
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u/PrelectingPizza Mar 24 '23
One of my favorites lucky things about myself is that I get to experience /r/frisson from music. It is always a good day when I listen to music and experience this.
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u/grubas Mar 23 '23
One of my guitar teachers was a church organist. He let me poke around because any idiot with a bit of music theory can figure out a keyboard
It's a POWERFUL feeling.
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u/Nimmyzed Mar 23 '23
I'm not a music fan but even I was impressed by the immense power and impact of this event
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u/forresja Mar 24 '23
I didn't know people existed that just...don't like music. I thought that shit was baked into our DNA.
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u/fllr Mar 24 '23
Yeah. A good organ creates an experience that goes beyond just audio. It becomes a physical experience, allowing you to feel the music, and creating an almost spiritual thing.
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
Fucking chills man. One of my favorite live bands/artists of all time. Thank you so much for posting this
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u/JanB1 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
Better quality for better chills!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEdqx3MdZA
The organist is called Anna Lapwood.
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u/Tattorack Mar 23 '23
Gods damn I wish I was there to hear it. I love Bonobo and the pipe organ added so much majesty to this performance!
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u/Geodude532 Mar 23 '23
I've always loved the organ when it's used well. It can produce the most hauntingly beautiful sounds or the worst dying animal sounds lol I don't think I've ever listened to a recording that could grab all the nuance that a live performance gives. Definitely jealous of these people!
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u/hmasing Mar 23 '23
You can hear a pipe organ, but you don't experience it until you can also FEEL the pipe organ. It's a very visceral experience.
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u/faceman2k12 Mar 24 '23
Particularly these full size multi thousand pipe organs. The lowest stops are deep into the infrasonics, and when running with all the stops out the sound unlike anything you've ever heard or felt.
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u/drewsaster Mar 23 '23
Also wanted to say thanks for sharing her info, ended up spending time learning about how these instruments work and it's fascinating. Highly recommend checking her channel out!
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u/BrettTheThreat Mar 23 '23
Rob Scallion has a few awesome videos on pipe organs.
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u/katwoodruff Mar 23 '23
She‘s brilliant! Such talent & passion.
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u/lallimona Mar 23 '23
And such a lovely person! Anna is very kind and thoughtful and interesting on top of being an amazing musician!
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u/QueenAmpharos Mar 23 '23
Thank you for sharing her info, I came to the comments to do the same! :D
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u/Chester-Ming Mar 23 '23
Same, Bonobo is an absolute legend. First time I heard The Plug on some random web designers website (as background music) about 20 years ago I immediately found my favourite artist.
Saw him live at the Roundhouse in London a while ago and he was epic.
Edit: fucking hell it just dawned on me that it was 20 years ago and now I feel old af.
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
That's about when I found him too. I swear there was an animated video of The Plug on his website back in the day. Can't seem to find any trace of it now though!
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u/DeathN0va Mar 24 '23
I did the math when I was telling my kids about seeing Portishead live. I couldn't believe it, so I double checked the year Dummy was released.
Lie down --> curl into a ball --> try not to cry --> Niagara Falls
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u/Extension_Ask_6954 Mar 23 '23
Yeah sitting with chills too. Didn't expect that...
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
I just can't believe this happened last year and I'm only hearing about it now. Love that song
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u/Pancer_Manda Mar 23 '23
Can't wait to play this when I get home.
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u/bigtallsob Mar 23 '23
Yeah. Everyone should do themselves a favour and play this on a real set of speakers. Cell phone sound cannot do an organ justice.
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u/TheChoonk Mar 23 '23
No household speaker can do it justice, since his instrument is literally bigger than a house.
Go to a church and listen to it live if you ever get a chance, the size of the sound is insane.
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u/Seppic Mar 24 '23
Never listened before but as soon as the organ hit I got goosebumps. Ended up watching the rest almost in a trance. It was so good.
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u/oblivionionion Mar 23 '23
Bonobo shows are so damn amazing. He's an incredible electronic producer, but when he tours they perform the songs with a full band and really brings them to life. My favorite artist by far.
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u/BrendaHelvetica Mar 23 '23
Sad the band will no longer be touring in the US, at least for awhile.
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u/honestFeedback Mar 23 '23
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u/comicsansisfugly Mar 23 '23
Simon said it's getting far too expensive to tour, particularly after the recent US one.
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u/offoutover Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
Sadly I’ve been seeing a lot of established bands/musicians saying this lately. It’s just too exorbitantly expensive to tour to the point where they don’t even break even but are paying out of pocket.
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u/TheBearOfBadNews Mar 24 '23
Apart from all the pandemic-related issues that made it more difficult to tour, US immigration services wants to increase the cost of a visa as well.
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u/MFbiFL Mar 24 '23
Seeing Bonobo DJ set then straight into Chris Lake at a festival a few years back was just… chefs kiss. Sound so good and clean for two shows in a row that I had to go find something else to do while Skrillex was playing because I was completely sated.
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u/adsvx215 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
In the last 62 years I've not only loved music, but played out and taught for a couple of decades, been to a zillion great concerts, and--without a doubt--this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen/heard. I can only imagine what it was like to experience live. I may have chills for a long time. Amazing. Thanks so much for posting this.
BTW, never heard of Bonobo but plan on checking them out.
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u/lindh Mar 23 '23
Good first album to check out (imo) is Black Sands, first one I listened to and I've loved him ever since.
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u/CravingMocha Mar 24 '23
You will not be disappointed. Black Sands is awesome, but the album that got me into them was The Northern Borders. Honestly, all of the albums are just plain good. Have an awesome time!
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u/RobGrogNerd Mar 23 '23
my question is, why didn't they add just ONE MORE pipe to that organ?
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u/themeatbridge Mar 23 '23
Because that would be too many.
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Mar 23 '23
Clearly excessive!
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u/GullibleDetective Mar 23 '23
And they usually build the building around the organ
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u/zylstrar Mar 23 '23
And since people usually build the building around the organ... well... they have to keep the pipes down to a reasonable number. It's all quite logical.
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u/Canucksfan2018 Mar 24 '23
Now they know how many pipes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
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u/bg-j38 Mar 23 '23
This says it has 9,997 pipes:
https://mander-organs.com/the-grand-organ-royal-albert-hall/
When that reference was added to Wikipedia on April 6, 2021, the person who added it changed the value from 9997 to 9999 for some reason. I checked the Wayback Machine saved versions of the Mander page to see if it had different info at the time and it seems to have said 9997 the entire time. Odd.
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u/gophergun Mar 24 '23
Part of the confusion is that the Royal Albert Hall website itself repeats that info.
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u/JGG5 Mar 23 '23 •
It's actually quite a fascinating story. When they were restoring the Royal Albert Hall's pipe organ in 2004, they bought 9,999 pipes from a reputable company based in New York City which was running a deal: buy 9,999 pipes, get the 10,000th pipe free. But on that fateful day, August 3rd, 2004, when they presented the punch-card with 9,999 holes in it to the company, the company pointed to the fine print on the back of the punch-card that clearly indicated that the "10,000th pipe free" offer was only good through 4/8/2004. The representatives from Royal Albert Hall left the meeting crestfallen. And that's why you can't play an A-flat in the third octave of the flute pipe on the grand organ at Royal Albert Hall.
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
I had to check the username about half way though 😂
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u/Auctoritate Mar 24 '23
Man i checked it before I even finished the first sentence, just set off the warning bells lol
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u/cookies4me04u Mar 23 '23
US vs UK/EU dating is hard. Which is a long running joke in IT.
‘What is your favorite date?’
‘I prefer DD/MM/YYYY format’
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u/codeprimate Mar 23 '23
I much prefer YYYY/MM/DD. It's plaintext sortable and non-ambiguous.
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u/cookies4me04u Mar 23 '23
Username checks out lol
Agree esp database storage ^ this is the way. I work in data visualization and ‘humans’ hate this format. *sigh
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u/lII1IIlI1l1l1II1111 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
YYYY-MM-DD is only perfect format. All other formats have issues. /r/ISO8601
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Mar 23 '23
Fortunately we do know how many holes it takes to fill The Albert Hall.
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u/PherryCie Mar 23 '23
Anna Lapwood is the GOAT
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u/donatedknowledge Mar 23 '23
Yeah she has a great personality, is fun on IG and is a professor I believe, her explanation video about the organ is amazing to watch!
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u/MeccIt Mar 23 '23
a professor
She's Director of Music at and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK, the one founded in 1347... the sort of talent that's allowed use The Albert Hall just for practice
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u/the_Synapps Mar 23 '23
Pretty much anyone who’s going to perform there gets to practice there. Every organ is different, so you’ve got to have time on the instrument in the hall. That said, she practices there a lot because she performs their a lot.
Because she’s very, very, good.
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u/3xc41ibur Mar 23 '23
If you've got a performance upcoming, it's regular for organists to get time on the organ to set themselves up. They need time to get all the sounds sorted out and familiarisation with the instrument, because there's no such thing as a standard organ. Every one is different.
If she was there at 1am, it'll probably have been for one of these sessions, and have come in overnight between shows.
Source - I stage manage orchestras professionally.
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u/Refun712 Mar 23 '23
Yes...that's where I learned the origin of "Pulling out all the stops"
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u/External_Outcome5678 Mar 23 '23
I cannot explain how much i wish i could have experienced that.
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There's no feeling like performing the thing you love doing in front of people and having them react positively. What an incredible moment for her.
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u/kush4breakfast1 Mar 24 '23
Organs are dope.
“What instrument do you play?
“I play the fucking building”
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u/Urban-mosquito-bite
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Otomo is the song. Banger alert!
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u/Fit_Cryptographer_96 Mar 23 '23
Been looking for this and it’s literally the last comment in the list.
Bless you.
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
I'm replying twice because GODDAMN I can't even imagine being there, straight up religious experience. That looks and sounds amazing. Haven't seen them play in over a decade and certainly not like THAT. tears in my eyes
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u/Draymond_Purple Mar 23 '23
The sound of an Organ is already naturally epic, but create this kind of circumstances around it... I can see how folks back in the day found god.
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
I found god in a warehouse full of speaker stacks and fancy lights a long time ago. Music is truly the only way I've ever felt that connection. Well, and psychedelics of course. Two great tastes that taste great together!
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u/violetauto Mar 23 '23
Oooh have I found a GenX raver
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
JNCO made all their jeans again a few years ago. You can still buy them on their site! At some point maybe ten years ago when my last pair finally tore (up the leg, of course) I came to realize that function was far more useful than form and switched my style up. #raverstruggles
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u/copper_rainbows Mar 23 '23
Elder millennial maybe cuz I remember that too lol
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u/SirChasm Mar 24 '23
Yeah it's kinda sad the gen Z kids will not get to experience raves in all their glory. It's all been commercialized to fuck now. I know there are still great local club events happening, but it's not the same.
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u/StellaArtois1664 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
Honestly, it was insane. I didn’t even know the organ wasn’t meant to be used until after. I don’t think anyone did.
Sounds a little ridiculous, but it felt a little outer-body. The acoustics in there are mind blowing
Edit: just read the last line of the description, got too excited and had to see people’s opinions. Felt like a lot of people at the time, but now I feel very humble I was able to experience this
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
It's not ridiculous at all. I've been there fellow redditor, well not the Royal Albert Music Hall, but there. Insanely jealous, lucky you! I've seen him DJ once and with a full band once in a very small venue, but never a production like in this video. I've had a silly grin on my face all day
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u/broforange Mar 23 '23
i love that you can see her counting the measures to herself to make sure she comes in at the right time lol. shit was great. never heard of bonobo but imma check em out now
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u/supercyberlurker Mar 23 '23
I love the first part, before she plays the most actually.
It's the most authentic image of anticipation and excitement I've ever seen.
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u/rollicorolli Mar 23 '23
She knew what was coming and the audience didn't. It's her instrument in her building, and she knows what that enormous beast can do.
I don't know if I could have survived it.
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u/supercyberlurker Mar 23 '23
Yep, she knows the profound effect it'll have on the audience.
So she's got that big grin like blue fairy about to sprinkle magic on everyone.
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u/LusoInvictus Mar 24 '23
Spot on. Exactly how I've pictured it for a couple of times that I've been listening to it. First time I've heard of one or the other musician and I've been swept of my feet. Not a regular music listener or anything but this was something else... So good.
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u/Scrambledcat Mar 23 '23
Hard to explain why this makes my eyes water nonstop and too choked up to speak properly
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u/PostMerryDM Mar 23 '23 •
Music works on the subconscious level, in ways that is not limited by constraints of our conscious thinking (language, education, etc.).
I always find it most powerful when it generates something within us that connects us—something akin to a sublime feeling or an idea that we do not yet have words to describe.
Whatever this is, is that.
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
Yup my 4yo just asked why I was talking funny. Crazy the way music does this to a person. There's a connection to something bigger than us at play, I'm certain of it.
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u/Single_Effect_7721 Mar 23 '23
Emotion? Has to be some sort of magic
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23
Hearing about the way some artists are a conduit for their work rather than a creator really gets the brain going. I've heard multiple times "it just comes to me" and then they produce it. Can't say I relate, anything I've created has been trial and error with the tool.
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u/Robbobloblawboblaw Mar 23 '23
Can only imagine the power that organ commands. Such beauty for someone to recognize and incorporate. Well done
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u/flowerytwats Mar 23 '23
Oh shit that's Anna! I used to work with her and yeah, she's hella fucking talented (and like the nicest lady also).
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u/Mediumofmediocrity Mar 23 '23
Wow, just wow! That was incredible. I’ve only streamed Bonobo here and there, but that was straight the fuck up spiritual. I can’t wait to get home and play this on my tv and home sound system (apologizing to the neighbors ahead of time).
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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
I saw them in a tiny venue with the full band in 2013. Started listening to them in 2004. I can still feel what it was like to be in my old apartment the first time I put on Animal Magic and heard Terrapin. I had a screenshot from one of their videos that was digitally animated as my desktop background for a few years. it was some kind of futuristic western scene, looked for a few but can't remember which song it was. Really digging in the dirt now after listening to this, what a treat.
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u/Miserable_Drink_8920 Mar 23 '23
Hi: we’re Bonobo, this is Stan our frontman, Rick’s on bass and Sandra, the final boss.
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u/MandaRenegade Mar 23 '23
I can never describe how much music moves me. Just smiling thru the beats and then when her part comes thru, I get so choked up! Incredible story telling ❤️ I need to look this group up!
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u/eastcoastflava13 Mar 23 '23
God, I fuckin love Bonobo. Lucky enough to see him (with the band) twice.
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u/prudence2001 Mar 23 '23
That's awesome. I'd love to hear a massive pipe organ like that in full flight...
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u/ThommyPanic Mar 23 '23
Fuck yes! That was beautiful!! I love Bonobo so much, especially the live shows. That must have been a religious experience to say the least.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I gave me goosebumps.
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u/Ok-Force9281 Mar 23 '23
I’m fairly certain she is on Reddit! The organ player that is. I know she has a fairly big reels/shorts following.
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u/futureman07 Mar 23 '23
They couldn't add one more pipe and make it an even 10k?
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u/neusen Mar 23 '23
I’d be so scared I’d lose count of the measures and miss my cue or come in at the wrong time 😳
(I love this video so much, absolute chills every time)
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u/dispatch134711 Mar 23 '23
Same, but I guess that’s why we’re not professional musicians. I think that would be like Michael Jordan being scared of missing a free throw. They live for it.
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u/ToXiChRoNiC6669 Mar 23 '23
This performance and video already brightened my day, but seeing all the love for Bonobo in these comments makes me even happier. I had no idea he was this well known and appreciated. He's one of those artists who's sound has matured but is still true to its roots and his sound remains distinctively his. You can hear his growth throughout his discography. Start at the beginning. It's simple breakbeat and downtempo, and now he's doing things like this!
Haven't heard of Anna before today but I'm glad I have now!
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u/Jennynumpkins Mar 23 '23
I remember seeing The Guillemots playing with the CBSO at Birmingham Town Hall and they used the hall's organ in the final song, Sao Paulo. I have never seen anything so majestic and powerful. The song just built and built and built, and then the organ kicked in. It was magnificent.
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u/marxy Mar 23 '23
Reminds me a bit of Hans Zimmer's Interstellar, which I see she also performs. Moving.
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u/RealDonKeedic Mar 23 '23
Bonobo was one of my favorite live shows. Simon is fantastic and the band slaps
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u/DenYennick Mar 23 '23
Now I'm sitting here with a smile that won't leave me for a long time
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u/Roph Mar 24 '23
Why would you steal this from her youtube and re-upload it without naming her?
She's Anna Lapwood and here's the video OP stole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdyAF9M3XVw
[edit] SOURCE, for anyone searching
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u/Roadie02 Mar 23 '23
I love how there are spots where she is tying to play it cool but the giant smile breaks through briefly when she lets herself feel how awesome it is.
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u/thebanishedturnip Mar 23 '23
She really pulled out all the stops on that performance
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u/foamingturtle Mar 23 '23
I’ve been crying for the last month in grief for my cat,and two friends that have passed away, so maybe I’m a bit emotional right now, but I cried tears of joy at this. Bravo!
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u/ClearAddition Mar 24 '23
I was at this gig. It was, as it sounds, incredible when this noise started emerging from behind the band
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