Monday, April 18, 2011

Astrud & Col.lectiu Brossa concert in Bilbao (Bizkaia Aretoa Auditorium, 14/04/2011): delicatessen pop philosophy

What a good bowling spell that I have!, It seems that you select more, the end is worth it. On Thursday the appointment with Astrud was the obligatory, yet had never had occasion to see them live and also the concert was free. Commented just before entering the room would have preferred to see them alone, without the lectiu Col.

Brossa, and I was wrong completely. Theirs was a meeting of real delicatessen, a concert is not suitable for a mass audience (though the room was filled), a fine staging and a sense of humor and irony. The songs of this duo as Martian Catalan now reached a new dimension with the addition of these five classical instruments.

It is folklore and it is also popular as modern philosophy is custom and spotify and social networks. Manolo and Son Genis and all winks, small phrases and expressions that have long formed part of our daily lives, even if some insist on calling kitsch. Genis served as master of ceremonies introducing each song (classified into ballads, and hits semibaladas) while introducing each of the five members of Col.

lectiu and their instruments: violin, cello, vibraphone, accordion and zamfona. Dressed in shorts, tank top, black gloves and high heels was seen looser than ever, funny and enthusiastic about his collection of retro synthesizers that make you want to tinker. He is the representation of the modern stage.

His repertoire was sung should focus on the twelve topics have been reviewed in The New, plus two new songs that appear on his latest album, one of them 'The People' describes perfectly the point found between the old the new, cultured and popular. Great, for me the most special moment of the concert.

By varying the order of their original recording were dropping each of these key issues in his career that have now acquired a number of nuances that sometimes make them unrecognizable. In 'The Landfill of Sao Paulo' this time found a photo of Coyote Dax and all members of The Reunion and 'Metal' Genís lay on the ground trying to get the song made him levitate.

It did not work with me yes. A Manolo's cell phone rang in the middle of the concert, did not catch, but the incident was very Astrud. He danced, gesticulated, made the classic touch in the box with a flat bottom that was changing colors and bathed with voice-carat jewel of Spanish-language pop is to see them live.

Initially asked if there was virtual friend in the room but no one showed his face, not everyone is as brave as them. Admittedly you have to be very valuable to carry out a proposal as bold as his, so as to hide not only have you beat, if not to portray that moment in a song. Already in the encores rescued two of their last hitazos 'All we like a shit' and 'There's a man in Spain' to those who felt like getting up from his chair and let go.

We should have done and continue to exactly his version of 'Voglio Vederti Danzare' by Battiato.

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