Matt Madeiro

(What? It’s Tuesday? Screw you.)

Round two: Priscilla Ahn.

I first met my new favorite half-South Korean (I know so many) through the fantastic Blogotheque project. For anyone confused as hell by that previous sentence, the Blogotheque — Take Away Shows, by another name – is music distilled, a shaky-cam experiment with light, sound, and typically obscure artists. The product is a wonderful thing despite it, a glorious excuse to take an artist, strip away the machinations of a studio, and sling ‘em on the road to do what they do: make music. (See: Arcade Fire in an elevator, Bon Iver in a French alleyway, the Guillemots out on the streets).

And that’s what she does. Priscilla takes an acoustic and sings. And laughs. She does that last one often, an energetic tickling pretty far removed from the mellow sound coming out of her guitar. But what sweet sound it is! She fits nicely in the modern generation of folk singers who seem to build something elaborate out of a scant few components, an idea rarely clearer than when she strums, sings, and chuckles her way until the video ends.

Check her out. I bet you’ll be charmed.