NOW I made the connection at Chicago's Lollapalooza music fest 2011 when I heard the same dreamy three-part harmony of the Los Angeles indie rock band Local Natives, particularly their song "Cards & Quarters".
On "Vespertine," for instance, Björk collaborated with Matmos, a San Francisco-based duo who incorporated various ambient sounds into her songs: cards being dealt, water boiling, and so on.
Some ideas are: candles, bracelets, poetry compilation, mix CD, photo scrapbook, book of quotations, lyrics to new popular songs, cards, posters, a framed picture of the two of you.
Within months he was recording "The Bright Lights EP," a four-song calling card produced by Rob Cavallo, the chairman of Warner Brothers Records, and released on that label last year.
Gastronomy was once Cuba's Achilles heel, but in a pretty rooftop restaurant with mountain views called Vista Gourmet, I found myself being entertained by a multi-skilled waiter who crooned Benny Moré songs, performed card tricks, and never let my wine glass go empty.
She's kind to everyone – remembering birthdays with songs and cards – dresses colourfully (kimonos, pioneer dresses), plays the ukulele, dances even where there isn't any music.
Hawks have inspired some great poetry, and other birds have inspired songs, greeting cards and an inspirational novel (about a gull).
The Buena Vista Social Club's "calling card" song: "Chan Chan".
It's not easy to find, but what a perfect song for this card.
I think about him sleeping on the Band of Joy's tour bus and his preference for covering a Richard Thompson song ("House of Cards") for 3,000 people in this intimate theatre, rather than belt out "Immigrant Song" for 20,000 at the Air Canada Centre next door, and the thought comes out all wrong: you don't have to do this, I say.
There's a line in a recent Radiohead song, "House of Cards": "The infrastructure will collapse".
