Sunday, March 13, 2011

Iván Ferreiro concert in Santiago de Compostela (Sala Capitol, 3/11/1911): you're not, am I?

I have in my room still a university student in rented apartment (along with everything else you should have: fluff, an unmade bed, mess ...) a poster of the first solo tour of Ivan Ferreiro, featuring songs by the time and distance, 6 years ago. Since then, I've seen with his tour of the seven and a half, and since then, gradually increasing its conception and cryptic baroque pop I was proving a heavy plate digestion, particularly with the failed Alien Picnic.

Parallel to the increased complexity in the structures of his songs, he joined a theatrical interpretation that I have always found exaggerated (although according to these tracks) and tasteless, in my opinion, the most outstanding virtues of Ivan, his ability to communicate in songs simpler, the force that gets started with its unique timbre of progressive songs crescendo, and the hyperactivity that characterizes curious (his love of science fiction, the verve and spontaneity in concert and in the deal).

Basically, what I liked about his solo debut and its follow what I increasingly found in lower doses in his records and, therefore, in concert, so at this moment I feel at these reunions with friends your past, with which you shared so many times but now I do not know what to talk about, and the cross that "today I can not, but this week and we'll call you" sounds disappointed, and most cases , a vague promise to meet increasingly harder.

I understand and respect (though not enjoy it so much) its evolution as an author, and although his last study is an approved delivery Justito (as outlined Victor), live if you notice over the years, and for good. With a solvent band (guitars accurate de Amaro Ferreiro and Emilio Saiz, Suso-son, who had also accompanied Fon Román on his first tour, and an elegant and incomparable Toni Toledo), improves the studio shots instrumental finesse and a more immersive and intense sound, and structure the show in a smart way to get the public to enjoy, especially, in the encore, leaving alone on stage to play with keyboard (and the public karaoke) songs Pirates, or play with his brother's beautiful 'SPN B.

', which sparked the first notes' ooooooh' most intense female all night (yes, I'd say chromosomally simultaneously and flipped the switch romantic of all the girls who were present). The night began with a wink to 'X Files', off the stage under his tune (you know, Picnic ALIEN), and a block of four songs from their latest album, shining on all the best song of this album:' Haven lost '.

Thereafter, and during the first part (about 65 minutes) of the concert, outweighed the songs on this album and Liar Liar, the highlight being the arrival of Manolón (eternal road manager and now the original group of Ivan), to interpret the low 'Extreme poverty' and an intense and superlative 'Citizen A', and reached a climax with 'My anger paranoid', ending the first part in which shone the media more times nicer, especially the trio 'Songs for the time and distance '-' whole truth '-' Jet lag ', on those issues most convoluted and artificial (' prim ',' Christmas Song ',' La Jetée ').

They place ember my sardine (based on my taste), subjects of the last two albums I missed 'Love Song', 'Secret desires' or 'Song wet', or an average with the election of Ivan 'Song without with passion. " However, despite the fact that in these first 15 songs sounded nice: a band technically exquisite, the usual verbiage as frontman Ivan (I prefer the "nod" to the other night concert in Santiago, Miguel Bosé, the memory of Compostela university stage or "squid" on the smoking ban and the thugs), the group's gratitude towards credible audience that filled the room ...

but perhaps felt some numbness in the mechanisms of the band (as acknowledged by Ivan, and for some time not playing together), which were minimized to the encore, where the public was satisfied with, especially the interpretations of '80' and 'promises worthless', as we said, with Ivan the keyboards, coreadísimas' Tournedos', 'Spirited Away', 'Blue Day' or, of course, the final 'equilibrium is impossible.

" Neither I'm the same, or keep the same mobility as Ivan and passion to play a few years ago (do not go in vain.) Their concerts are now more to enjoy for granted that left his voice, and as the author prefers that as a performer moving to the masses, crooner before frontman. Change is a logical and consistent both with his music, as it is burning stages in his career, but every time I have more the feeling that its enormous power of attraction is based more on all this than actual.

Alien Picnic disappointment I still hard, but it is necessary that the next album we fully back to Ivan, because otherwise the step between the songs "owners" and "alternates" will become too obvious. Concert worthy, but perhaps somewhat lacking in spark.

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