There had been little preparation of concerts, but the world premiere in large spaces of the new show of PJ Harvey, based on the album The Hope Six Demolition Project , four years after the last tour, took place this Saturday in Barcelona.
It is a vibrant show, elaborate, dense and demanding. They went on stage, she and her nine magnificent musicians (especially John Parish, Mick Harvey and Jean-Marc Butty), the martial sound of Chain of keys , with militarized drums and her, vaporous black dress with transparencies and cuts, playing saxophone. The stage design – multimedia artist Jeremy Herbert. – Is both imposing and sober, in yellow and black tones
The music, when new topics are covered, is unique for a rock concert with many percussions, saxophone sounds, closed guitars and collective voices serving as support to her voice, in every cutting, graph, pulsating. It is obviously a political concert with something dark and the war of the absurd theatricality, which could result in the context of those impenetrable. But that’s not what happened.
Contrary to what had happened the day before with Radiohead, where he felt that the more introspective songs were lost in the crowd, with the British experience was different, though of its proposal to be more complex. Along the interpretation of the new songs ( Ministry of social affairs , Community of Hope , The line in the sand , The ministry of defense, Medicinals or River anacostia ) there is an almost solemn atmosphere, but the vocal interpretation and feline physicality, flanked by serious musicians, generates fascination.
there in their attitude, the songs and the show in general, anything from rock classicism, but at the same time of reinvention from the inside. Over the years say would be that appropriated the gender canons to better recreate your way. Of course, not all walked around the new album, but even revisiting more rounds songs ( Let england shake , The words que maketh bite , The glorious land , the wheel , to bring you my love ) seemed contaminated by the intensity of the new project, that is as imposing as the greatest weaknesses exposure. When under ether creates a moment of meaning intimacy that seems impossible in that environment, while in 50ft queenie collective wildly part in search of the most primitive electricity and Down by the water is exposed the more sensual side of the singer with everyone in delight.
by the end was River anacostia , with ten players as they had started, singing together the mouth of stage, a gospel record “ Wade in the water , God’s gonna trouble the water” , infecting the audience with them to let him go, turning the space into an immense resistance congregation the evils of the world, a monumental concert of someone who does not surrender to facilitismo reigning of shows for large crowds.
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the other most anticipated concert of the last day of the Primavera Sound festival – which received 200,000 spectators over three days, according to the organization – was the legendary Brian Wilson, the brain of the Beach Boys, composer who influenced almost all popular music, from the Beatles to Air, Tame Impala, Animal Collective or Beach House, for we name groups that visited the event. They all owe something to Pet Sounds , one of the albums that has marked successive generations, launched 50 years ago, and now transposed to the stage in Barcelona.
On stage was also the guitarist Al Jardine, another of the founders of the Beach Boys, the son of this, Matt Jardine, who owns an impressive falsetto, and over a dozen musicians. With a transgenerational audience in front of Wilson, 73, sitting at the piano, she made everyone happy. Revealed sense of humor – “Good news! A surprise for you, this has no voice, only instruments, “quipped the presentation of one of the two instrumental tracks of the album – but who’s waiting for an immaculate concert will not find it. There are times when desafina and that seems absent, with the collective supplying small flaws. But none of that is important here. It is celebration. It is living history. And the assistance rendered, realized it.
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