finished this Saturday the busiest edition ever of In Primavera Sound. According to estimates of the organization have been present throughout the three days, 80,000 spectators.
The challenge for the coming years is to realize how the event could grow without losing those were the guidelines so far at the level of relationship with space, the identity of the poster and the comfort of the spectators. From concerts standpoint there was no unanimity of last year around Patti Smith, and perhaps the names of PJ Harvey, Savages and Brian Wilson the most cross, standing in second row concerts of Parquet Courts, Animal Collective, air Battles, Moderat or Car Seat Headrest.
over the three days felt in the air an interesting discussion. There were those who thought that some of the media concerts had no festival profile – Sigur Rós, PJ Harvey, Beach House, Brian Wilson or Air – according to that old cliché that to be enjoyed in a multitude of context music It must be noisy. On the other side there were those who manifest critical of a poster with too many boring rock bands just to make up the numbers, without which sensed the diversity that is today made the mosaic of contemporary pop culture. A fact most emphasized by the cancellation of the rapper Freddie Gibbs.
A week ago, in an interview to air in Barcelona, they said that there were details that could condition a concert festival, speaking of the concrete sound case because in the context of those it is more difficult to ascertain and why his music is subtle. Usually we talk about the sound only when it is deficient. On Saturday, the main stage, was irreproachable. Of course it was not what defined the fate of his concert (in addition to the sound, power would be talking about the light design and stunning interactivity with the lighting tower), because if there was a suit of songs which caused the immediate recognition effect in assisting the spectacle had not worked, but it was relevant.
the French concert was a trip around your route twenty years, revisiting many of the most emblematic themes, and also a cosmic tour, in the sense that some of their songs is inhabited by psychedelic environments – is curious glimpse that bands like Tame Impala revere today – as if his music was a starting point to build imposing symphonies moon. They are not easy to grasp songs, populated by numerous electronic and acoustic elements and without a defined center, but many of them actually populate our imagination. And that, largely, that did avenge his show. For us that we had seen a week ago was a surprise.
Not for the concert itself, but the reaction of the public, rare, almost always involved, relating to the songs, even when they were not the most obvious, such as Playground love the soundtrack of the movie the Virgin Suicides . At the end asked if even more, something rarely seen in three days. The duo – backed by two musicians, all in white – was reeling off songs like Cherry blossom girl , How does it make you feel, Kelly watch the stars? , People in the city , Remember , or the inevitable boy Sexy , a mixture of dreamy moments with other rhythmic dynamism, as in Do not be light , or frantic electricity, as in the end, a fluid concert, where he felt that the French were reconciled with their own music, not requiring standardized adaptations crowds, an evil experienced by many concerts today as we saw on the first day with the excellent Deerhunter, which sometimes seemed to want to be Coldplay. When there is art, courage, songs and public available, the trip is possible. The Air showed it.
Other cliché installed in major festivals is that the Portuguese bands are not meant to play in prime time. In recent years there has been a reconciliation of the audience with the music made in Portugal but in these environments it has no translation. The argument is that we can hear them throughout the year. It is poor think so. The occasions are also preparing. They have to be their own festivals to create those moments. Knowing program is also this. It is not always easy to meet what are the supposed expectations of the public. Linda Martini, which opened the main stage, the 18h, deserved another role.
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