Natalie Merchant’s ambitious new album, Leave Your Sleep — a brilliant and beautiful musical adaptation of near-forgotten 19th- and 20th-century British and American children’s poetry, out today to nearly a decade worth of anticipation.
“What I really enjoyed about this project was reviving these people’s words, taking them off the dead flat pages, bringing them to life. Bringing them to light.”
Courtesy: TED, Brain Pickings
Natalie Merchant sings from her new album, Leave Your Sleep. Lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry pair with her unmistakable voice for a performance that brought the TED audience to its feet.
