It isn’t precisely typical for artists on the Tiny Desk to share their future burial plans, however that is precisely what Indigo de Souza does midway by way of her efficiency. “I wrote this tune about my love for nature,” the singer-songwriter says, introducing the observe “Not My Physique.” “I believe that once I die … what I would like is to be composted and to turn out to be soil, and for that soil for use to plant a tree, and I would like that tree to be so large and powerful.”
“I do not know what sort of tree but — nonetheless pondering on it,” she says, with just a few giggles from the viewers. “A tree that folks can go to and be like, ‘That is Indigo!’ Till they die and so they cannot go to me anymore.”
It is stunning, unvarnished sentiments like that — a want to be reborn as a giant and powerful redwood tree — that mark de Souza’s lyricism. The 26-year-old songwriter’s music all the time emits a sure nakedness, as she chronicles the unknowing that usually comes from being in your 20s. In a set constructed from 2023’s All of This Will Finish, right here these songs come paired with horns as her hovering vocals transfer seamlessly by way of beats of youthful despair and hope.
SET LIST
- “The Water”
- “All of This Will Finish”
- “Not My Physique”
- “Youthful & Dumber”
MUSICIANS
- Indigo De Souza: lead vocals, guitar
- Maddie Shuler: lap metal, piano, backing vocals
- Avery Sullivan: drums
- Landon George: upright bass
- Jacob Bruner: trombone
- Ben Colvin: tenor sax
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Bob Boilen
- Director: Maia Stern
- Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
- Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel, Estefania Mitre
- Editor: Sofia Seidel
- Audio Engineer: Kwesi Lee
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Michael Zamora
- Tiny Desk Group: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Body, Hazel Cills
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
- Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
