Bent Knee - Black Tar Water (Apartment Sessions)

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
  • Season 3, Episode 17 - Black Tar Water (Bent Knee)
    Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia in September 2019
    Music and Lyrics by Bent Knee
    Arranged by Courtney Swain
    Courtney Swain - vocals, ukulele
    Jessica Kion - vocals, bass
    Ben Levin - electric guitar
    Drew Krasner - clarinet
    Jared Yee - tenor sax
    Lauren Yu Ziemba - bassoon
    Ethan Crystal - vocals
    Ben Marcus - vocals
    Luke McGinnis - vocals, glock, percussion
    Evan Tyor - vocals, guitar
    Jon Chen - cello
    Sam Quiggins - cello
    Liam Lewis - mandolin, violin
    Ian Anderson - acoustic guitar
    Kevin Grossman - drums
    Engineered by Evan Tyor
    Mixed and Mastered by Evan Tyor
    Filmed by Liz Maney and Kelvin Alfonso
    Video Edited by Liz Maney
    Apartment Sessions Logo Animation by Brian Plautz
    Session Title Handwriting by Courtney Swain
    Hand Illustration by Ben Marcus
    Outro music by Evan Tyor
    Powered in part by Sun Lab Studios
    Violin/Mandolin tech - Marilyn McGinnis
    Thank you to the McGinnis family for your home, Marzipan &
    Licorice for the love, Dave Kirslis for the kit, & Taylor Chicoine for the gear.
    Thank you to our Patrons, who make these videos possible. To become a Patron, visit us at www.Patreon.com/ApartmentSessions
    Apartment Sessions is created & produced by Luke McGinnis, Evan Tyor, Drew Krasner, and Liz Maney
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Комментарии • 92

  • @campfire2953
    @campfire2953 2 года назад +52

    it truly is sad to know that this project is over. every time i share something from y'all, it pains me to have to preface it by saying that it ended. the music you performed, the places you performed, it was all so powerful. i know all of you are out there still doing good things, please never stop.

    • @MongerOfStrings8222
      @MongerOfStrings8222 Год назад +6

      They're still a band, still friends, just without Ben or Jessica

    • @noahtheshipbuilder
      @noahtheshipbuilder 5 месяцев назад

      There's a new album coming out in a couple weeks :)

  • @UBERMIEUX
    @UBERMIEUX Год назад +5

    I miss you guys. Hope you come back some day soon ❤️ certain you're all doing incredible things.

  • @yusufylmaz6417
    @yusufylmaz6417 4 года назад +48

    This song is just so powerful and i am so glad that apartment sessions did a bent knee song. I am obsessed with their songs

  • @wvuvino21
    @wvuvino21 2 года назад +1

    Criminally underrated

  • @SuperRedshark1
    @SuperRedshark1 4 года назад +12

    I'm so glad I found Bent Knee. I love the band's innovation and experiments and they came up with an unbelievable melody here. When I found out it is about depression, which I suffer from, I wanted to explore and create my own emotions and understanding generated by the song. To me the song represents an escape into better feelings and leaving depression behind. Thanks to the originator of this amazing piece of art.

    • @wvuvino21
      @wvuvino21 2 года назад +1

      Lol black tar… and water… it must be nice to not really know what the struggle is

  • @reillywilloughby
    @reillywilloughby 4 года назад +11

    This is my favorite Bent Knee song. Glad to see it get some love.

  • @arkun_finish
    @arkun_finish 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful: Only here and now!

  • @valtermarques6716
    @valtermarques6716 4 года назад +3

    I'm not crying, you're crying! Yeah I am too, come here and give me a hug 😭😭
    such strong chills down my spine
    Bent Knee

  • @ashtonwells2773
    @ashtonwells2773 3 года назад +8

    I want this to be on spotify so so so badly! I listen to it every day

    • @wvuvino21
      @wvuvino21 2 года назад +1

      I tear up most of the time listening

  • @dashdandelion3681
    @dashdandelion3681 3 года назад +1

    just wow...a masterpiece of progressive forest metal.

  • @juanventas
    @juanventas 3 года назад +12

    Please keep uploading!! Everything it's just crazy good

  • @milletti.teevee
    @milletti.teevee 3 года назад +9

    If at all possible, I hope there will be more of these one day! I love every unique performance I've seen from this channel and I really would love to see more 😭

  • @adamjam5613
    @adamjam5613 4 года назад +5

    I'm so grateful for having the opportunity to experience such a exquisite performance in such gorgeous scenery and to visit the very beautiful completely other world captured on a camera then produced into a video. this is bonkers!

  • @StupidMusicalExperiments
    @StupidMusicalExperiments 4 года назад +8

    Fantastic, it would be great to hear some of Bent Knee's stuff with even more orchestration.

  • @kmatthe4
    @kmatthe4 4 года назад +2

    This made me listen to the original. This arrangement is wayyyy better. Great performance! Gonna get some Bent Knee on iTunes!

  • @fallofmath
    @fallofmath 4 года назад +11

    Immediate like and favourite. This, the full BK version and the Justice Cow version are all mesmerising - it's just fundamentally an amazing song.

    • @valtermarques6716
      @valtermarques6716 4 года назад

      thanks! I didn't know the JC version. I love Jessica! "Thank you, hello!" and "Quone" on spotify please! :D

    • @wraithgr
      @wraithgr Год назад

      What's the JC version? Much as I love BK I cannot wade through the weirdness that is JC...

  • @punkinholler
    @punkinholler 3 года назад +8

    I miss y'all. I understand why there's no new content and it's okay. But you're missed and I'll be here when you return 😊

    • @noahtheshipbuilder
      @noahtheshipbuilder 5 месяцев назад

      There's a new album out in a couple weeks!!

    • @punkinholler
      @punkinholler 5 месяцев назад

      @@noahtheshipbuilder Seriously?! That is so exciting!!!

  • @bobbyspapercraft
    @bobbyspapercraft 2 года назад +10

    It’s been so long. Where is the apartment sessions? Please come back

    • @denni8271
      @denni8271 6 месяцев назад

      they ended the project, theyre all doing their own things now

  • @cloud666x
    @cloud666x Год назад +2

    You all are so talented! I love your content and I cant wait for another video :>

  • @wylee9
    @wylee9 Год назад

    a wonderful farewell to the most beautiful covers of music i've ever heard

  • @lawrencebelai
    @lawrencebelai 4 года назад +6

    I think I needed this at the start of the pandemic. I was in a dark place then, and this might've helped. But right now, I don't care, because I think I needed it even more today. Keep kicking ass guys, this performance of an already incredible song was incredible in and of itself.

  • @esgee3829
    @esgee3829 4 года назад +4

    setting, arrangement, performance, mix. lovely

  • @christinatalentscout6640
    @christinatalentscout6640 4 года назад +1

    Great arrangement. Loving how the nature brought the best in all of you.

  • @ZippyLeroux
    @ZippyLeroux 4 года назад +2

    They need to make a Nobel prize category for whatever witchcraft the person/people who recorded this are engaged in.

  • @TheOddKris
    @TheOddKris 4 года назад +4

    I had chills all the way... this is amazing

  • @maocharlisme
    @maocharlisme 3 года назад +1

    So interesting and idiosyncratic! ♡

  • @andycavedal9382
    @andycavedal9382 4 года назад +2

    yeah, back on the roads finally. Congrats, keep making some magic for us that we're anxious to see more

  • @FayeFadem
    @FayeFadem 4 года назад +4

    Incredible in every way!!!

  • @Michael-Oh
    @Michael-Oh 3 года назад +1

    Very lovely. Love these projects and sessions!!

  • @Reflexzzzz
    @Reflexzzzz 4 года назад +1

    This song has such power!

  • @clarksessionslive3607
    @clarksessionslive3607 3 года назад +1

    This song is so beautiful! Keep up the great work! ❤️❤️

  • @desrj
    @desrj 4 года назад +1

    Spectacular arrangement of such a great song.

  • @archie9505
    @archie9505 3 года назад

    You wonderful people and your wonderful music!

  • @auto_ego
    @auto_ego Год назад

    beautiful

  • @Retrofire-47
    @Retrofire-47 11 месяцев назад

    the singer is a hot pepper of a musician

  • @SaltedPepper101
    @SaltedPepper101 4 года назад

    Sent shivers down my spine, wow.

  • @patrickbenga634
    @patrickbenga634 2 года назад

    Beautiful! Please keep uploading!!! never had one video that i didn't like i swear

  • @laurebarlet
    @laurebarlet 4 года назад

    Grand merci de France!

  • @jakedixonmusic
    @jakedixonmusic Год назад +2

    Will you guys ever do these again?

  • @luvmufvin5752
    @luvmufvin5752 4 года назад +10

    this feels somehow even more real than the original recording...

  • @matthewbenedict5923
    @matthewbenedict5923 3 года назад

    it always hits

  • @ryanwoolwine8349
    @ryanwoolwine8349 3 года назад

    So powerful!

  • @davestern2912
    @davestern2912 4 года назад

    Awesome. Just awesome!!!!!

  • @reubencase6789
    @reubencase6789 4 года назад +1

    Wow, this is absolutely fantastic!

  • @miroirdéformant
    @miroirdéformant 4 года назад

    cheers forthe shivers down my spine !!!!!!

  • @BrunoWiebelt
    @BrunoWiebelt 4 года назад +1

    that was impressive ... it touched my heart

  • @CsongorVarady
    @CsongorVarady 4 года назад

    what a powerful song

  • @catedoge3206
    @catedoge3206 2 года назад +5

    here hoping apartment sessions remember their password.

  • @chloejouzu
    @chloejouzu 4 года назад

    Great setting, great song!

  • @ggauche3465
    @ggauche3465 4 года назад

    How wonderful!

  • @joeriffanucci
    @joeriffanucci 4 года назад

    yep, I LOVE this thanks guys!

  • @pipezcado
    @pipezcado 4 года назад

    That was amazing as always. 💙🤗

  • @kwichmann2777
    @kwichmann2777 4 года назад

    Absolutely wonderful

  • @DearbornPlys
    @DearbornPlys 4 года назад +1

    Jumped out of bed to grab headphones for this

  • @Lemwell7
    @Lemwell7 4 года назад

    Very good.

  • @andrewd.3469
    @andrewd.3469 2 года назад +1

    Imagine walking in the forest and hearing this

  • @jonmackenzie
    @jonmackenzie 4 года назад

    so good

  • @Filip6754
    @Filip6754 3 года назад +3

    Did you see the violinist in a white shirt who runs back to his seat at the last second before joining in for the final chorus? :D

    • @WhenTheUhh
      @WhenTheUhh 3 года назад +2

      He's the guitarist on the top left at 2:35 - he drops the guitar, runs over to the other side and picks up the violin. It took me a few tries but he helped me understand the whole layout lmao.

  • @victorialopez4436
    @victorialopez4436 4 года назад

    Muy hermoso gracias

  • @KjellChristensen__KC-MUSIC
    @KjellChristensen__KC-MUSIC 4 года назад

    Halo my friend. Great. Thanks for sharing. Wish you a nice day...Kjell

  • @jimliferox
    @jimliferox 4 года назад

    Jacob Mann and Knower merch tho 😍

  • @monowavy
    @monowavy 4 года назад

    yes

  • @Saulomun
    @Saulomun 4 года назад +17

    Wait a second.. What was that last arrangement when the credits started?? So beautiful.

    • @machinate
      @machinate 4 года назад +8

      I get a feeling it's constructed from the stems of the main take? Either way it's a piece of art on its own, for sure!

    • @catedoge3206
      @catedoge3206 3 года назад +1

      It is indeed beautiful.

  • @luisfloresgonzalez2337
    @luisfloresgonzalez2337 3 года назад +1

    So there won't be the we shall overcome video? Good cause I didn't overcome

  • @Fluufie
    @Fluufie 4 года назад

    fucking incredible. so alive

  • @giorgiooliviero8554
    @giorgiooliviero8554 4 года назад +3

    Courtney this arrangement is amazing. Fuck!

  • @leonardadelmann2767
    @leonardadelmann2767 4 года назад

    pleas come to the butiful town karlstadt in Bavaria, germany and make there a big spontanias Orchester

  • @Grant_Michael_Layman
    @Grant_Michael_Layman 4 года назад +21

    Who's apartment is this? Which one of them is homeless?

  • @tristanmccann6838
    @tristanmccann6838 4 года назад +1

    Rainbow Connection?

  • @izaacwilson7339
    @izaacwilson7339 4 года назад

    this must must must survive rona at all costs

  • @Eric06410
    @Eric06410 4 года назад

    😳

  • @uniworkhorse
    @uniworkhorse 3 года назад

    I spy a bari uke 0_0

  • @Oh_I_Will
    @Oh_I_Will 2 года назад

    So uh….is the gimmick done posting videos?

  • @Razeluxe01
    @Razeluxe01 2 года назад

    This version feels a bit messy. too many instruments/sounds going on at once.

  • @jackorourke1684
    @jackorourke1684 4 года назад

    Love the tune but I really do not like the voice.

    • @theoscheer2053
      @theoscheer2053 4 года назад +1

      shut up

    • @fallofmath
      @fallofmath 4 года назад +5

      Try the version by Justice Cow (the bassist in this video): justicecow.bandcamp.com/track/black-tar-water . It's a little more subdued than the BK version but it's a gorgeous song either way.
      Courtney's voice seems to be an acquired taste for many but damn is it worth acquiring!