ANOHNI AND THE JOHNSONS: TINY DESCK CONCERT

 

ANOHNI and the Johnsons arrive at the Tiny Desk with a set that feels both intimate and unguarded, carrying the weight and clarity of three decades of music-making. 

In Why Am I Alive Now?, ANOHNI’s voice moves over Gael Rakotondrabe’s cascading piano, Sam Dixon’s grounded bass, Doug Wieselman’s plaintive clarinet, and the percussive pulse that keeps the lament breathing. 

Hopelessness follows, its translucent layers shaped by Jimmy Hogarth’s guitar, Leo Abrahams’ guitar and guitaret, and Wieselman’s saxophone, building towards a moment where doubt and release coexist. 

Finally, It Must Change gathers all six musicians into a slow, soul-inflected revelation, each note carrying its own kind of truth. ANOHNI does not simply perform; she asks, she insists, she listens, leaving the listener with questions that remain long after the last chord dissolves.