The mark 20-year career, expected to each Air and tarpaulins to celebrate a number so round. We knew we were coming to a (re) revival of the French duo Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, walking now on the road to reinterpret the early albums. And so it was, the audience received them in large numbers, it was for them that many went to the City Park, taking into account the amount of people that came out at the end of the show, was not yet midnight, early for a Saturday .
that crowd had those who like always and everything and others who have references to a band who composed some important songs of pop contemporary environment. But perhaps walk now every one in his life, the duo showed up (literally) tuneless, particularly Dunckel a shabbiness that almost lay on the ground the commitment and talent of the musicians.
There were melancholic (of course) and managed to leave sidered for some time, a sea of people. But it was not long until many people began to circulate that a festival can not mean much unless the Air were suddenly a kind of appetizer or dessert for everything that was around – read the other poster bands.
“Kelly Watch the Stars” and “Sexy Boy” were the highlights of the performance, but it was the frustration they have left behind (in the current tour) the theme “All I Need “, a kind of sacrilege. Instrumentally were clean, they are experienced musicians who have shown their worth in full, the theme that closed the session: “La femme d’argent”. Were warm, but those who like really like and anyway.
It was fun to see, immediately afterwards, much of that human mass to move to the stage next door, where they began to play, almost immediately, the Texans Explosions In the Sky . Grace was trying to figure out where it would be possible to cram so many people, met with a smiling and Portuguese macaronic voice: “Hello, all right? We are the Explosions in the Sky. “
From these words, spoken cheerfully and received with equal affection for the audience, the band was enough for them to be. They gave the best they know, slow and heavy and hypnotic rock that produce as few. Are some machines to make noise, live as the disks, are dark, melancholic and even aggressive. Instrumentalists Eximios this art, followed ballet concentrated in the last The Wilderness , published early last April – though it hardly mattered, earning there was the environment that was created on a stage with low light and stripped of props
the question then arises:. what is the interest of so many thousands of people to be there before five men (drums, bass and three guitars) to rock the body? The answer: a confirmation that this song exists, it is not the work of gods, much less “stars”, which is made by people who were the same as in the amphitheater, embracing couples, people with eyes closed and a few tears. Simple.
This Saturday there has been a sequence of black music, let us say, in three parts. After the French and nostalgia of American guitars, reached the German electronics of Moderat . Meco been in a few years in the tent dedicated to dance music, but tonight received the main stage a sign of growth at various levels. One was the light.
Moderat are a Berliner trio formed by the two elements of Modeselektor and Sascha Ring, known solo by Apparat. Walking on the road to present the third album ( III ), released this year, but as is usual in festivals, were kind enough to bring issues from previous Moderat and II .
we were already with the flea behind the ear, after seeing the show that gave the Primavera Sound (transmitted in streaming ) of Barcelona, the week last. But live is another matter. The electronic black spot was embellished by a screen with high-definition images, movies and graphics and lines and dots and words, all effects (ornaments) synchronized to the millimeter, a choreography to fill the eye – ventured to say, half joking half seriously that the visual component of this show must have given so much work to do as the respective music.
not that it took the Moderat music has its own value, but so is most spectacular. The word is even this, show, was what made the performance of Moderat an absolutely brilliant time, this ability to amplify the power of music with special effects can not be played on any site other than a big stage.
But for the bad sound quality closer to the stage, would have been perfect – the word is strong, we’re not to use lightly. The fans in the first rows left to lose, unfortunately, with the sound often distorted almost to the point of unbearable – included two cuts, to remind an amplifier to break out with the volume at maximum. On the contrary, further back on the slope could hear clear music, is a technique compensation perhaps difficult but somehow unfair. The wonder was that the handling of light and image, missed the sound.
Adding to the performance of Moderat, having to choose another key moment, the memory flies to show that PJ Harvey gave the sexta- Tuesday, accompanied by nine musicians Eximios. Icelanders Sigur Rós were also up to the responsibility, even though they are now reduced to three elements, with all the good and bad that it has in the compositions that have been made for more instruments.
In a homogeneous festival, loaded with rock and electronic – rap and hip-hop have been forgotten – there were only three Portuguese bands. Among the Sensible Soccers, the White Haus and Linda Martini, the stage experience and the energy of the latter was the winner, if it’s art for victories. In addition to looking at the poster and choose your favorite names, this is also a time of discovery and ambulation. Car Seat Headrest and Algiers are names to keep an eye on. Battles also for those who never had crossed with them.
Over the three days we were in direct and witnessed many more shows than the ones developed in the final articles. We therefore recommend (even) to read about what we saw and heard on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Besides music we spoke also of space and environment that led to the Port City Park about 80 thousand people in three days, almost coming half from abroad.
Do not move a recipe successfully size, this next year, 8, 9 and 10 June, held the sixth edition of NOS Primavera Sound. Tickets for 2017 will be on sale as from next July 4.
Pedro Esteves Text, Michael Matias photography.
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