Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I'm not much of a singer, but I had fun making a cover of the Alt-J song 'Taro', with my friend Melanie, while testing some new music equipment. We're both big fans of Alt-J, and have our own band 'Leningrad': facebook.com/heyleningrad
The actual song is quite a remarkable piece of work. The lyrics read like a telegram, fallen into the wrong hands. It tells the story of the death of legendary war photographer Robert Capa (Endre Friedman), the only war photographer to accompany allied soldiers with the first wave of the Normandy invasion. He would go on to cover many war, including the Spanish civil war, in later years, and become most famous for his picture "the falling soldier". In 1950 he was asked by life magazine to cover the first Indochina war. In 1954 Capa went along with a patrol from a French regiment and tragically set foot on a landmine, having gone offtrail in a dangerous area. He was found alive but heavily wounded, and rushed to a small field hospital, where he was pronounced KIA upon arrival, thus being reunited in death with his love and colleague war photographer Gerda Taro.
(www.laurentdhondt.be)
I'm not much of a singer, but I had fun making a cover of the Alt-J song 'Taro', with my friend Melanie, while testing some new music equipment. We're both big fans of Alt-J, and have our own band 'Leningrad': facebook.com/heyleningrad
The actual song is quite a remarkable piece of work. The lyrics read like a telegram, fallen into the wrong hands. It tells the story of the death of legendary war photographer Robert Capa (Endre Friedman), the only war photographer to accompany allied soldiers with the first wave of the Normandy invasion. He would go on to cover many war, including the Spanish civil war, in later years, and become most famous for his picture "the falling soldier". In 1950 he was asked by life magazine to cover the first Indochina war. In 1954 Capa went along with a patrol from a French regiment and tragically set foot on a landmine, having gone offtrail in a dangerous area. He was found alive but heavily wounded, and rushed to a small field hospital, where he was pronounced KIA upon arrival, thus being reunited in death with his love and colleague war photographer Gerda Taro.
(www.laurentdhondt.be)
