Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Live Report: Fever Ray @ Olympia, Paris - 09/09/2010


A cold green cloud fills the stage and the theater. A family-based creeps into your ears. In one corner, a light comes on, against the five figures go up on stage and silently taking place. Two green lasers from the center of the stage fanning out into the audience. Begins "If I Had a Heart " and when Karin Dreijer Andersson sings is a voice that will reach your ears, but a death rattle straight to the heart.
" Triangle Walks" will awaken from the torpor induced by the previous part, the lights turn on and off the stage to the music and it is impossible to stand still. This piece, like all others, is rich beyond belief compared to the studio versions, they are tribal rhythms and scratching. Guitars and drums are added so arrogant to something already very good.
" Concrete Walls" takes a first important question to be clarified: it is always her singing, there's his brother. Even the "male" is his, and it is obviously sharp and precise.
E 'voice always very clean, which does not run ever something more than what you heard on the CD, but always very precise and incisive.
"I'm Not Done becomes live an intense assault electron which one can not give up and move your ass: via lasers, only lamps and warm lighting, red and orange.
The three covers that stretch from the set list consists of only 10 pieces altimenti work fine album, Fever Ray reinterprets them in its own way, without canceling the identity. "Here Before " maybe does not leave much, but "Stranger Than Kindness " and "Mercy Street " are two of his best pieces now (for the cover of Nick Cave I cried I was so moved by her beauty) .
size accentuates the intimate live breathtaking beauty of "Keep The Streets Empty For Me", but perhaps the most awaited moment is obviously " When I Grow Up," which does not disappoint at all.
One detail that surprised me is how with a few elements (lasers, mirrors that reflect them and create geometry, lights around the stage, some lighthouse blue, green or red) Andreas Nilsson has created a live extremely sophisticated, complex and elegant . Not all items are always used together in certain parts lasers are turned off, in others they are the lamps to remain on the sidelines.
Who is always in the dark it is they, not a beacon, a tiny light, no nothing about them. They go in silence, do not show his face and with the same dark mode disappear after a glorious " Coconut" ...
All that remains are a very strong emotion, a deep admiration for those who put on a show like this and above all you have left a chill wind blowing from north powerful within you. Thanks
Fever Ray.
(Very good even the very young, born in '89, Zola Jesus, who opened the concert! Bases a bit 'dull but super item!)

Setlist (WITH VIDEO! - But not mine):
  1. If I Had a Heart
  2. Triangle Walks
  3. Concrete Walls
  4. Seven
  5. I'm Not Done
  6. Mercy Street ( Peter Gabriel cover)
  7. Now's the Only Time I know
  8. Keep the Streets Empty for Me
  9. Dry and Dusty
  10. Stranger Than Kindness ( Nick Cave cover)
  11. When I Grow Up
  12. Here Before
  13. Coconut

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