Second Chance is a great song, by a great band Liam Finn (son of Neil Finn), on a great show Later with Jools Holland and a great exhibition of live looping skills. Love when he drops the octaver and lays down the bass line. Killer.

Live looping is a technique made more popular recently by people like KT Tunstall, but it’s not really a new concept at all. Basically it consists of one or more musicians capturing live audio in a loop and adding more layers on to the loop throughout the song. Usually accomplished with something like a Boss Loop Station or Electro-Harmonix Super Multi-Track Looper. If done well it can be an incredible thing to see and hear.

Andrew Bird is an incredible musician, vocalist, live looper and whistler. In fact I’ve not heard many give as clean and on pitch whistle as Andrew. Noble Beast is Andrew’s latest album and it sounds incredible.

Here is a video of Andrew performing “A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left“ live at Bonnaroo in ’06 showing off his sick live looping skills.