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A new song from Annie Dinerman, a contemporary folk singer-songwriter, sounds like garbage.
It's intentional. The New York musician wanted to make a statement on her second independent CD, called "Broken Cookies." The album features a song called "One Planet At a Time." So Annie told her drummer, Rex Benincasa, to keep the beat with trash.
He dug around and found plenty of musical junk. The song features percussion from plastic bags, a pill bottle filled with pistachio shells, a pizza box, a Snapple cap, tin can conga drums, timbales made from a pizza sauce can, and glass and plastic bottles, according to top40-charts.com.
Annie Dinerman is a Songwriters Hall of Fame award winner. Her producer, Steve Addabbo, has worked with Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin.
"One Planet At a Time" has a fun and funky world music groove, courtesy of the trash.
"Broken Cookies" also includes a lyrics sheet in a .pdf file, instead of a paper booklet. The file is on the CD, available online [irl="http://anniedinerman.com/links.html"]via her web site[/url].
This little ditty brings an important point to light. There's a lot of trash out there. Americans generate almost 5 pounds per person per day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We all need to work on beating this glut.
