Thursday, January 31, 2013

Michi Renoir and a Unicorn at Cat Boucher's Art MusikCircus - Report

So the Unicorn says to me, "I like your shoes," and this is a polite way of saying, "Geez, where did you get that ugly suit!"

Some may find it unusual to be talking to a Unicorn but I think it's unusual to live in a world in which you cannot talk to unicorns, particularly when they're as polite and fashion-conscious as this one.  Her name is Agleo and she is German but Unicorns also have better English skills than my German skills so it was easy talking with her.


Here is a shot of Cat and I dancing while we listen with Agleo the Unicorn to Michi Renoir playing.  He was making some incredibly beautiful synthesizer sounds and what he was doing was all the more remarkable as it seems he only uses two keyboards.  He has one for the piano sound and the other for synthesizer sounds so he achieves the diversity in his sound by splitting the synthesizer keyboard so it uses different voices from different parts of the keyboard.  This is not an uncommon technique but he does it with extraordinary proficiency as he gets a remarkable array of sounds in each song.

It was sad as attendance wasn't very good and it was all the more saddening to go to another show later on that was one blues song after the other, all with excellent tone and technique but all pretty much the same.  Perhaps it is the nature of music that anything progressive will not draw much of a crowd and the same ol' blues will always be met with incomprehensible enthusiasm as this is the way it seems to go.


And Cat and I danced:


Stars rose up to light the sky with the music and the love.

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