Phoenix resist the problem of Stella Maris in Primavera Sound

At this 12 months’s Primavera Professional conferences there may be quite a lot of speak about AI and metadata. Additionally copyright and psychological well being. Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi and Hidrogenesse got here as a substitute to speak about Stella Maris. Not from ‘The Messiah’. From the fictional band ‘La Mesías’. Ambrossi introduced that his free efficiency on the competition can be the top of the mission, and Calvo ended up joking about his place at an occasion like Primavera Sound. «I ponder what Phoenix followers consider Stella Maris. However there are those that have advised me what Stella Maris followers will consider Phoenix.

If this had been the defunct Primavera Sound Madrid, I would say Stella Maris would have stolen the evening from Phoenix. The town that instantly elevated Rigoberta Bandini, Chico y Chica, Ojete Calor and Las Bistecs – every in its personal type – is aware of lots about bullshit. However in Barcelona there are a lot of vacationers – there isn’t a restrict, increasingly more and increasingly more and increasingly more -, many French, and it was Phoenix who loved the most important viewers. Way more than in Tomavistas.

The Stella Maris live performance begins with some bulletins that announce the arrival of the savior of the world… to “Primavera Sound.” The humor is palpable however so is the gloom. The projections are naive and sinister. As Hidrogenesse has defined concerning the music they’ve written for this mission, it is vital that the viewer forgets whether or not they’re watching one thing jokingly or critically. There is a enjoyable part, and there is a cringe part.

The music itself known as ‘Stella Maris’ serves to introduce the women. The manufacturing tries to not mission too many photographs of Amaia, making her one of many sisters. It really works midway. Each has kind of its personal function, however the enjoyable right here is seeing Romero on this context, following the choreographies with a combination of devotion and struggling. There’s a purpose why it remained one of the vital emotional scenes that The Javis have ever filmed.

However the principle protagonist is the music, and the stage growth that’s fabricated from the songs from his album ‘La casa smells a gloria’. One thing occurs in all of them. Two teams of human towers enter ‘La Alcantarilla’. The place are you?’ They do take Hidrogenesse on stage, half incognito, with Sparks as a possible reference. ‘Due to you I exist’ turns into a rave celebration with mime and projections of that viral nuns on hearth. Simply once you suppose nothing may get higher, Albert Plá seems, with out blinking, spectacular in his gaze on the digicam, performing ‘The Flowers of My Backyard’ whereas the women dance round. The model of ‘Non secular Expertise’ now carried out by the sisters serves to flesh out the present as much as 40 minutes.

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And particularly about Montserrat Baró. Joan Pons from Primavera Sound had advised us in a podcast that Carmen Machi may fly away. She did not fly away, it was higher. Like Christ throughout Holy Week, her physique emerged inert, lifted up and carried to the stage by the castellers, from the middle of the viewers. And on the doorways of the stage she rose from the useless. Carmen Machi grabbed the microphone that Ambrossi had handed her like a discreet “roadie”, she danced in her nightgown and stole the present, joking concerning the acronym EDM. The general public, in ecstasy. The collection workforce jumped on stage on the finish of the celebration in what we are able to contemplate the really distinctive present in Spain this 29-M. Taylor performs once more tonight (and we’ll inform you about it tomorrow).

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The Phoenix present hasn’t modified a lot for the reason that final time I noticed them, precisely 5 days in the past. It’s true that it labored significantly better in Barcelona, ​​and the “vibe” of the folks was particularly supportive. The group shouldn’t be afraid to open the set with one in every of their strongest songs, ‘Lisztomania’, even considering that the present was free, as a result of they’ve extra property with which to entertain the viewers.

There are additionally singles amassed over these 25 years reminiscent of ‘Leisure’, ‘Lasso’, ‘Alpha Zulu’ or ‘Ti amo’, every from his father and mom and all 100% Phoenix; in addition to the useful resource of turning to ‘If I Ever Really feel Higher’, the music with which he began all of it.

The group joins it with ‘Funky Squaredance’ in a quantity much more gloomy than Stella Maris’, during which a head is lower off. The husband of the director of ‘María Antonietta’ additionally has her personal guillotine.

Within the last a part of their present, the mime who takes off his masks is none aside from Ezra Koenig, on the town to carry out right this moment with Vampire Weekend, and that permits them to current ‘Tonight’ as ordered. ‘1901’ is a celebration and within the last reprise, Thomas Mars as soon as once more indulges in crowdsurfing. On the finish of the evening, I do not fairly bear in mind if it is him I’ve seen holding a half-full beer mini whereas 1000’s of individuals carry him on their shoulders. Or he went to Montserrat Baró. However each delivered by entertaining the plenty.

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