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New Mix: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen, Mdou Moctar, Angélique Kidjo, More

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This weeks All Songs Considered features a striking collaboration between Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen. I also share a conversation and music with Angélique Kidjo, psych-guitar from Mdou Moctar and more.
1. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen: "Like I Used To" (Single)
2. Aerial East: "The Things We Build," from Try Harder
3. Saint Sister: "Manchester Air," from Where I Should End
4. Sunny Jain: "Where is Home," from Phoenix Rise
5. Angélique Kidjo: "Africa, One Of A Kind (feat. Mr Eazi & Salif Keita)," from Mother Nature
6. Mdou Moctar: "Afrique Victime," from Afrique Victime

Transcript

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0:00.0

What happens after a police officer shoots someone who's unarmed?

0:05.4

For decades in California, internal affairs investigations, how the police police themselves

0:10.7

were secret.

0:12.2

Until now, listen to On Our Watch, a podcast from NPR and KQED.

0:21.6

For NPR music you're connected to all songs considered I'm Bob Boyland.

0:25.8

Later in the show I have new music and a conversation with the inspirational voice of African

0:30.4

music, Angelique Quijoteau.

0:32.8

But I'm going to begin with a brilliant collaboration with two all songs considered

0:37.2

favorites, Angel Olson and Sharon Van Etten.

0:40.7

This song is called Like I Used To.

0:43.0

It's produced with John Congleton.

0:44.8

He's produced music by both artists in the past.

0:47.6

Here's Angel Olson and Sharon Van Etten to talk about the origins of their new creation.

0:53.4

And Sharon initially asked me to work on this song.

0:56.6

I kind of thought, is this real?

0:59.8

She really asking me to contribute.

1:02.7

It's such a precious thing to so many people, the writing process.

1:06.7

For me it has been.

1:08.5

So it was really exciting and new for me to be able to work with an artist like myself

1:16.2

who is just as successful, who has made ten years or more worth of records or music to

1:24.2

be writing part of a song together.

1:26.6

It was pretty cool.

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