We might live in a world where music often seems to be made more from technology than from human creativity, where the initial idea for the song is buried so deep under digital layers and studio-created sounds, where things have been manipulated, polished, produced and messed with so much that it is hard to know what is art and what is artifice.
“You Take Such Good Care Of Me” is the antithesis of all that, and The Singer and the Songwriter remind us of music’s purity in its simplest form. A simple, spacious guitar line from Thu Tran and some understated yet intimate vocals from Rachel Garcia and you have everything you need: the sheer delicacy, the room to breathe, the atmospheres that pool and percolate in the gaps between one note and the next, between the end of one lyrical line and the next adding a host of intangible moods and emotions.
The video also brilliantly reflects this less is more, back to basics approach, with the two artists performing naturally for each other, unaware that anyone else will ever be as indecorous as to spy on their personal and hidden world.
Our world is big, brash, and fast-paced, where ego and ambition rule. Theirs is everything opposed to that.
