Michi Renoir is somewhere in Austria where they are probably laughing about all the complaints of snow on Facebook. He plays two keyboards, one for synth and the other primarily for piano, and the combination of voices he gets with just two is really astonishing.
In the promo for the show, Cat said Michi Renoir plays anything from punk to Stockhausen and it's true as he has the classical training but he played for some while in a punk band and he recently did a show in which he featured Stockhausen. His range of musical interest is very wide and the synth gives him the array of voices to take it wherever he likes.
Maestro Michi's set is very much one of trips and the next one always will be different. Every show he does is a surprise. Last night he was for a time playing a classically-themed piano piece and he segued from that, very naturally, to a disco on an alien planet with full-out synthy orchestration. It's the segues in which he moves from one vibe to another that sets Michi apart as he has a genius for making it all flow. He played last night just as he has multiple times in which he starts playing at the top of the show and continues without break all the way to the end of it.
You can find more about Michi Renoir on his Artist Profile on the Cat's Art MusikCircus Web site.
Reis Alter lives in Italy now but she comes from Brazil and she goes back with Aldo to perform in Carnival each year. Seeing that show live would be one major gas, gas, gas with a whole lot of Jumping Jack Flash.
Reis always looks spectacular up front on the stage and you can see Aldo Brizzi being Italian cool in a suit at the back of the stage. He does the composition and synthesizer orchestration while Reis sings over the top and it's a gorgeous combination. The pictures will show you it's also highly-visual.
The picture only captures a portion of the show as the spectacle fills the circus. Reis and Aldo make music that fills it too as Aldo makes compositions that allow Reis to fly miles above them with her voice. She ranges from complete innocence to highly sensual in her expression and the subtlety of the music Aldo makes to support it is delicious.
But then Aldo gets tribal with his percussion and you're very deep in the Brazilian jungle, surrounded by incredibly tall trees, and seeing Indians dancing around a blazing fire that throws terrifying shadows into the leaves. Voices scream from somewhere but you can't see why. In the deep jungle, it's magical but it's also dangerous.
The show ends with a song called "Embrace" and I'm not sure if it's original. It's about embracing the people around you and really everything around you. In description it sounds like a group hug but it's much more than that in embracing all of life. It's a captivating thing and it doesn't take long before embraces fly all about the circus.
Right now there is a Secret Project but Reis and Aldo will be back next week to perform again. After that they will be touring through Switzerland, Germany, and France for more recording. Their lives are entirely devoted to music and it's extraordinary the number of different ways they express it.
You can find more about Reis and Aldo on their Artist Profile on the Cat's Art MusikCircus Web site.
And, yes, Cat and I danced!
The picture proves that in Second Life you can still get a date with hot babes even if you have a hat that is covered in spiders, big ones. Cat is looking spectacularly delicious and Medora is looking all golden behind her. And I have a spider hat. Fashion is my life.
So really this isn't a Tale of Three Countries. It seems so at first as Michi Renoir is in Austria, Reis Alter is in Italy but came from Brazil, and Aldo Brizzi is Italian. Cat doesn't perform but there would be no show without her and she's in Germany. Medora comes to hang out and she's in England. Apmel isn't pictured but he's in Sweden. I'm in the U.S. So, a Tale of at least Seven Countries.
Update: Apmel advises that he is in the pic. He's the little grey guy in the back. So, there you have it, a Tale of Seven Countries ... or maybe more
In the promo for the show, Cat said Michi Renoir plays anything from punk to Stockhausen and it's true as he has the classical training but he played for some while in a punk band and he recently did a show in which he featured Stockhausen. His range of musical interest is very wide and the synth gives him the array of voices to take it wherever he likes.
Maestro Michi's set is very much one of trips and the next one always will be different. Every show he does is a surprise. Last night he was for a time playing a classically-themed piano piece and he segued from that, very naturally, to a disco on an alien planet with full-out synthy orchestration. It's the segues in which he moves from one vibe to another that sets Michi apart as he has a genius for making it all flow. He played last night just as he has multiple times in which he starts playing at the top of the show and continues without break all the way to the end of it.
You can find more about Michi Renoir on his Artist Profile on the Cat's Art MusikCircus Web site.
Reis Alter lives in Italy now but she comes from Brazil and she goes back with Aldo to perform in Carnival each year. Seeing that show live would be one major gas, gas, gas with a whole lot of Jumping Jack Flash.
Reis always looks spectacular up front on the stage and you can see Aldo Brizzi being Italian cool in a suit at the back of the stage. He does the composition and synthesizer orchestration while Reis sings over the top and it's a gorgeous combination. The pictures will show you it's also highly-visual.
But then Aldo gets tribal with his percussion and you're very deep in the Brazilian jungle, surrounded by incredibly tall trees, and seeing Indians dancing around a blazing fire that throws terrifying shadows into the leaves. Voices scream from somewhere but you can't see why. In the deep jungle, it's magical but it's also dangerous.
The show ends with a song called "Embrace" and I'm not sure if it's original. It's about embracing the people around you and really everything around you. In description it sounds like a group hug but it's much more than that in embracing all of life. It's a captivating thing and it doesn't take long before embraces fly all about the circus.
Right now there is a Secret Project but Reis and Aldo will be back next week to perform again. After that they will be touring through Switzerland, Germany, and France for more recording. Their lives are entirely devoted to music and it's extraordinary the number of different ways they express it.
You can find more about Reis and Aldo on their Artist Profile on the Cat's Art MusikCircus Web site.
And, yes, Cat and I danced!
The picture proves that in Second Life you can still get a date with hot babes even if you have a hat that is covered in spiders, big ones. Cat is looking spectacularly delicious and Medora is looking all golden behind her. And I have a spider hat. Fashion is my life.
So really this isn't a Tale of Three Countries. It seems so at first as Michi Renoir is in Austria, Reis Alter is in Italy but came from Brazil, and Aldo Brizzi is Italian. Cat doesn't perform but there would be no show without her and she's in Germany. Medora comes to hang out and she's in England. Apmel isn't pictured but he's in Sweden. I'm in the U.S. So, a Tale of at least Seven Countries.
Update: Apmel advises that he is in the pic. He's the little grey guy in the back. So, there you have it, a Tale of Seven Countries ... or maybe more
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