The Los Angeles Times discusses Natalie Merchant's new album, Leave Your Sleep, in which Merchant sings 26 tunes based on the words of poets, famous and not-so-much.
From the piece...
Natalie Merchant on Tuesday releases the album "Leave Your Sleep," 26 poems set to music. She's been working on the project for six years and will bring it to Los Angeles on April 20. She previewed the tracks in a polished performance at the TED conference in February.
After the first song, names and photos of the poets flashed on the screen: Charles E. Carryl, Rachel Field, Robert Graves, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ogden Nash, Edward Lear. "Ghosts, right? Have nothing to say to us. Obsolete. Gone," Merchant said. But she wasn't finished. "Not so."
She sees her project as a resurrection. "What I've really enjoyed about this project is reviving these people's words, taking them off the dead flat pages, bringing them to life," she said.
Here she is singing "The Man in the Wilderness":
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