Well last night was a musical revelation. I sat and listened to a full hour and a half of music I had never heard before, without a noticeable hook in earshot, and was completely mesmerized.
Andrew Bird, showcasing tunes off his forthcoming album (due in January), and I have come to the conclusion that he is an absolute musical genius. The sheer scale of his compositions would be enough to drive many composers to fits of jealousy, but the fact that he pulls them off live, with nary a misloop to be heard, pushes me towards lunacy.
He started the show off with a long build up, full of his typical looping antics, violins were reverberating around the church as if I was sitting in the middle of the London Philharmonic, and when he added hand claps, his amazing whistling ability, and a spectral vocal harmony, it was bliss. He slowly worked his way through a number of songs off his new album, some more traditional (well as traditional as Bird gets), and other far more experimental than I am used to, all of them sonic masterpieces that were only highlited by the fact that the acoustic properties of a 300 year-old church were designed for concerts such as this.
If you have the opportunity to see Andrew live in concert, I urge you... no, I plead with you, to go see him, it is an musical experience not to be missed.
So. Jealous.
Posted by: Danielle | November 22, 2008 at 09:32 PM