Alanis Morissette The Morning: New Song Highlights the Lives of Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
Grammy winner Alanis Morissette has decided to use coffee beans for her newest song.
The singer teamed up with renowned Costa Rican musician Carlos "Tapado" Vargas to use coffee beans and other machinery used in producing coffee to create the percussion elements for her new song "The Morning."
Musicians around the world have used different music-makers to add more depth to their sound. "The Morning" was inspired by female coffee producers in Costa Rica.
The new track is part of the upcoming documentary "A Small Section of the World" that focuses on the Asociacion de Mujeres Organizadas de Biolley and the women of a small Costa Rican town who are vital to the global coffee industry, according to Fox News Latino.
"I think they, producers Nick Davidge and Dominic Sandifer, were trying to see who might lend the voice and sing through the hearts and minds and soul of these women in Costa Rica, to tell their story and articulate something that might be a little challenging to articulate," Morissette told The Hollywood Reporter.
"I was flattered that they saw me as the kind of person that can really get inside another person's experience and capacity and articulate it for them as I could. It was an honor."
The Hollywood Reporter exclusively premiered the music video.
Morissette spoke to the women profiled in the documentary via Skype, although she had intended to meet them in person. She and Vargas met to work on the song.
"Working with Tapado was easy. We had a shorthand, and even though there was the translation challenge for us with speaking different languages, it was quite easy because in our own way we just kind of finished each other's sentences," she said.
"These women were built to serve; they're built to fortify the bond of a village, of a community, of a family," Morissette said about the women in the documentary.
Morisette has collaborated with musicians like Ringo Starr and the Dave Matthews Band in the past.
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