Vodafone Paredes de Coura: day 4 (8.23), with Beirut and James Blake
Another edition of the Vodafone Festival Paredes de Coura just ended. We carry on luggage bands that have become indispensable to the musical landscape of these discoveries and achievements along with the fantastic environment characteristic of this festival, make the promises of the public are to return.
SEQUIN
It was 18 pm and the audience through the gas that remained on stage punctually Vodafone FM expected input Ana Miró – Sequin. Accompanied by a keyboardist and a bassist, Sequin leaned in synthesizers and was tracing the themes of his album Penelope in accordance with the enthusiastic audience that was involved in its electro-pop mixed with fragments of sensuality that did recall Ladytron or The Knife. A natural sympathy, Ana was sketching smiles and glances between the musicians and the audience, eventually verbalize “Thank you for having exchanged bathing in the river and for coming to see me at this hour.”
SENSIBLE soccers
Spent half an hour, enter the main stage the Sensible Soccers a quartet of Portuguese music scene composed by Hugo Alfredo Gomes, Filipe Azevedo, Manuel Justo and Emanuel Botelho. />
THE DODOS
In experimental and unexpected composition where the crossover of styles remains Californians favor of The Dodos between the folk and psychedelia purposeful mixed with pinches of rock drummer – Logan Kroeber – utters “This is the last show of our European tour and We could not imagine a better way to finish. ” The duo – Meric Long and Logan Kroeber – conquered the audience with his album Carrier with vibrant melodies, taking them to his album released in 2011 In Color a new version the theme “Good”
. KURT VILE AND THE Violators
Now with the last light of the sun, the American rocker Kurt Vile performed at 19: 40h to an audience that still shyly took the space of the amphitheater Taboao Beach
. Festival-goers, mostly sitting on the grass not very involved with the concert seemed more enjoy the sunset to relax than to honor the psychedelic rock of Vile and his band, The Violators. The presentation, which began calmly, evolving through more electric and heavy, and slowing down at the end, when much of the festival-goers had already started to leave the building toward the secondary stage.
HAMILTON Leithauser
At 20:30 came the New Yorker Hamilton Leithauser present themselves onstage Vodafone FM. With the room threatening to fill and warm reception from the nearest festival-goers, the musician, who was lead singer of “The Walkment” for more than a decade gave the audience a mixture of rock, pop and blues in a concert that seemed to ask a local more . intimate
With songs like “Alexandra”, “I Retired” and “I’ll Never Love Again”, Leithauser was a good company and festival-goers the right time came to say “I love playing here, even gave the name of a disk to Lisbon.” The simplicity and the arrangements worked well pleased the public in climate farewell to another edition of Vodafone Paredes de Coura
. THE Growlers
The Americans presented themselves at 21: 20h on the main stage of the Festival de Paredes de Coura bringing a rock
The band formed in 2006 reached I’d get some applause from the audience and at one point had the unusual participation of some festival-goers dressed as animals, among these were two crocodiles. A good presentation, but leaving a little to be desired in this last day of the festival Minho
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GOAT
Masks, colorful clothes with tribal stampings, plumes on their heads and an almost ritualistic atmosphere could be shamans – or aliens – but were the Goat. The Swedes took the stage at Vodafone FM 22: 30h and were well received by the audience that completely filled the place, a large majority not knowing quite what to expect of such strange creatures. The receiving? An almost hypnotic presentation, full of dancing, psychedelic rock, a hint of shamanism, tribal rhythms vocals that seem to come from a whole tribe
. Having his first album, World Music , released in 2012, the Goat are keen to maintain a certain mystery about the identity of the components, opting for the flashy costumes in all presentations. The somewhat bizarre mixture of elements seems to have conquered the festival-goers, who applauded and shouted to each song, surely the aim of causing a strong visual impact and engage the public until almost trance state was successfully achieved by the group.
The Swedes showed that the audience can take the excitement of a rock concert to the mystical atmosphere of a ritual of ancient tribes and effortlessly make this unlikely mix become a fantastic experience.
BEIRUT
At 23h15 could already hear the drumming stepping on the soil of the Elephant among the huge crowd that packed the natural amphitheater the Taboao waiting for Zach Condon and the rest of the band entered the stage. Lovers Portuguese and vice versa public, Beirut were warming to the topics “Postcards From Italy” and “East Harlem.” The band comprised of six musicians, including accordion, drums, keyboards and metals that gave a hint of the “Mexican” music, delighting the audience every musical gesture. The voices of the crowd warmed up before Zach carry your ukulele and start the first chords of “Elephant Gun”, subsequently making singing a chorus in “Santa Fe”. At the request of some posters that some admirers held “I love you whelp!” Zach gave a whiff of the song “Cub”, invoking Caetano Veloso. “We were now swimming in the river, and the water is cold. This festival is fantastic, the best audience ever.” The last song triggered the light vibrate multiple phones and flashlights illuminating the immense crowd that was clapping and leaving in memory of festival-goers, a major evening concerts
JAMES BLAKE
If you were expecting a different talent of this electronic touch introspetiva, behold, James Blake did not come out of your comfort zone, leading many festival-goers who still hung around there after Beirut leave the premises. Blake was making some praise due to the amazing location that fell within its performance and to have the honor of sharing it with others. Near the crates separation would be listening to the cries of admirers every musical measure, while as it was going up the amphitheater only heard less positive arguments and even a “Go away!”.
In a concert that wandered between his two Overgrown albums and its namesake 2011, reinventing dubstep and R & B with an injection of samples that intersected with their unwavering falsetto. Loose themes such as “Limit To Your Love” – version of Feist – and “I Never Learnt To Share” and a more intimate, lit by two spotlights and taking with the keyboards, wave Blake will continuing trying to warm up the audience that still bear to stand
. doubt and displeasure If the choice to close the poster of the main stage was the right one, is by festival-goers who were complaining over the course of the concert James Blake
. After a busy session brought by Beirut, is a promise by the organization that the festival back to camp . the same venue in 2015, between 19th and August 22
: Diogo Baptista / Oporto Agency
Text: Camilla Hall c / Oporto Agency
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