The Internet is cursed but still the show went on. Just before we were to go into Second Life to set up for Michi Renoir's show, a storm started blasting Bavaria with lightning so there was no option except for Cat to shutdown. That's when I do the Guardian Clown stuff as the show has to happen no matter what.
Maestro Michi Renoir did a piano solo show last night. As he explained it, his synthesizer had taken the night off to go out for beer. What becomes of a drunken synthesizer in an Austrian beer hall is something perhaps we will learn next week.
Maestro Michi wasn't so much playing an all-out improvisational set last night but rather was playing songs he had written previously. Of course he was improvising with them as well as it wouldn't be Michi if he didn't but mostly he was working within original frameworks from another time. This is not at all a bad thing as the result was very pretty.
While Michi Renoir has played with a punk band in his musical life, what he was playing last night was far removed from that. The music was frequently very gentle, delicate and beautiful. Just as a guitar can be played hard or soft, so can a piano but playing soft doesn't mean he was playing the crap jazz from some music lounge for middle-aged salesmen. His music was just as brilliant as his synthesizer work, it was just a different form.
The whole time everyone was hoping the storm would pass and Cat would be able to come to the show but that didn't work out. Reis and Aldo came to the stage and started out with very high spectacle!
I've written a lot about the sweet and ethereal side of Reis Alter's voice but she also sings with lots of sensuality. In one of their songs, Reis has a one-word refrain of SEX and of course the audience echoes it. While that may go a little past sensuality, it's beautiful and the whole audience rolls with it. Reis sings in all manner of ways and everything she does conjures up many images.
Aldo Brizzi drives the music with the most exotic rhythms I've ever heard in Second Life and he definitely doesn't stay with a standard drum kit as his percussion is highly elaborate and varied. The rhythms he creates are all part of the imagery that goes from the deepest jungle to futuristic views of things we have never seen before. Add to that a very powerful and deep bass and you've got music that you could enjoy all the more by sitting on your sub-woofer. On top of all this he uses every voice at his disposal to create the animals of the jungle and you can't see them but you know they are out there.
It was toward the end of their show that Cat was finally able to login to Second Life and that was tremendous as the previous night the Internet had cursed my session so we really hadn't been able to dance since Friday. Naturally, Reis and Aldo were happy to see her and they dedicated their last song of the evening to her, one Cat calls "The Laughing Song." Reis starts laughing during the course of it and you can't help laughing too.
Here you can find Reis and Aldo online:
Reis Project (News on Facebook about Reis and Aldo with concert information)
Aldo Brizzi (Original compositions by Aldo and collaborations with other musicians)
And we danced!
The picture is not so good but I liked it because it shows the spectacle on the stage behind us. Finally we could dance again!
Maestro Michi Renoir did a piano solo show last night. As he explained it, his synthesizer had taken the night off to go out for beer. What becomes of a drunken synthesizer in an Austrian beer hall is something perhaps we will learn next week.
Maestro Michi wasn't so much playing an all-out improvisational set last night but rather was playing songs he had written previously. Of course he was improvising with them as well as it wouldn't be Michi if he didn't but mostly he was working within original frameworks from another time. This is not at all a bad thing as the result was very pretty.
While Michi Renoir has played with a punk band in his musical life, what he was playing last night was far removed from that. The music was frequently very gentle, delicate and beautiful. Just as a guitar can be played hard or soft, so can a piano but playing soft doesn't mean he was playing the crap jazz from some music lounge for middle-aged salesmen. His music was just as brilliant as his synthesizer work, it was just a different form.
The whole time everyone was hoping the storm would pass and Cat would be able to come to the show but that didn't work out. Reis and Aldo came to the stage and started out with very high spectacle!
I've written a lot about the sweet and ethereal side of Reis Alter's voice but she also sings with lots of sensuality. In one of their songs, Reis has a one-word refrain of SEX and of course the audience echoes it. While that may go a little past sensuality, it's beautiful and the whole audience rolls with it. Reis sings in all manner of ways and everything she does conjures up many images.
Aldo Brizzi drives the music with the most exotic rhythms I've ever heard in Second Life and he definitely doesn't stay with a standard drum kit as his percussion is highly elaborate and varied. The rhythms he creates are all part of the imagery that goes from the deepest jungle to futuristic views of things we have never seen before. Add to that a very powerful and deep bass and you've got music that you could enjoy all the more by sitting on your sub-woofer. On top of all this he uses every voice at his disposal to create the animals of the jungle and you can't see them but you know they are out there.
It was toward the end of their show that Cat was finally able to login to Second Life and that was tremendous as the previous night the Internet had cursed my session so we really hadn't been able to dance since Friday. Naturally, Reis and Aldo were happy to see her and they dedicated their last song of the evening to her, one Cat calls "The Laughing Song." Reis starts laughing during the course of it and you can't help laughing too.
Here you can find Reis and Aldo online:
Reis Project (News on Facebook about Reis and Aldo with concert information)
Aldo Brizzi (Original compositions by Aldo and collaborations with other musicians)
And we danced!
The picture is not so good but I liked it because it shows the spectacle on the stage behind us. Finally we could dance again!
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