- This topic has 75 replies, 33 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 1 month ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Impressive lightshow! Sad one cannot see more of the musicians playing; musically a bit… ambivalent 8O
Another clip from Oppdal
I attended the Fredrikstad gig. The light show was amazing, but those vimeo clips is nothing compared to seeing it live (a mix of Floyd-ish lazers and Lynch-ish scary animated faces). The music was great too, especially the two MP tunes they played – really groovy. I’m not too much fan of the parts that were too far out there, like when the drums went as fast as possible in a non-groovy uh, groove and the instruments just made sounds, but when the two bands made structure and built it up to climax – amazing!
All in all a good concert, but I think it would be a way better concert if it was loosely based on MP tunes (read: a semi improvised MP concert with Supersilent as backing band, like the two songs they played), but that’s just my opinion. I had a good time, but the Fredrikstad audience wasn’t really into it. The bands made ready for an encore, but the clapping was too uninspired. For a first time for me, an MP concert without encore.
Those who said it was a bit too loud, buy yrselves some expensive ear buds like me – the sound was exellent! They take care of yr ears and makes the sound even better!
Just came back from the gig at Verkstedhallen. Here’s my review, for those who weren’t there:
Having read some of the posts in this thread and some of the reviews I really didn’t quite know what to expect. I guess I feared a set that never even approached familiar terrain – aimless noodling in the mellow bits and wave upon wave of cacophonic noise in the extreme bits. I guess you know what I mean; I love the accelerating expressway-to-hell bit in K9 from Roadworks 1, but without the bookends of an actual song around it it would be a lot more tedious. Striking the right balance between excess and restraint is very important in any setting, and no less so in a show so reliant on improvisation. In sum I guess you could say I was hopeful but a little anxious.
At 21:30 the lights dimmed, the guys came onstage and they went immediately into an atmospheric one chord jam, building it steadily like we know they can do almost with eyes closed, taking it to a great climax and working their way back down from the mountain again. Lots of contributions from all involved, and it’s always a treat to have Deathprod in on the game. They followed this with another, groovier jam and just when I thought that they were starting to lose the momentum a bit a familiar groove emerged as Bent and Kenneth took the jam straight into the “Hallucifuge” part of LLM! Easily one of the coolest moments of the evening: Snah even nailed the singing, which doesn’t always happen. After this (about 30 minutes in) the highlights came thick and fast in what I thought was the best part of the show; there was a nice balance between jammy bits where they could all stretch their legs a bit and actual songs that kept the momentum going. We were treated to “The Getaway Special” and “The Bomb-Proof Roll and Beyond” with long, spaced-out pieces in between. Thus concluded the first hour of the show, and the first breather for applause.
The final “number” of the concert proper proved to be somewhat disappointing compared to the rest of the show; they built a long, furiously groovy and explosive jam that seemed to go on for just a bit too long – and then some sort of equipment malfunction or plain old power outage ended proceedings abruptly and forced Kenneth to end it all with an awkward flourish. There was the inevitable applause and the guys seemed to be done with it when they apparently regained control of the power outlets after a minute and picked up at the exact same spot with undiminished fervour. The groove dissolved into a noise fest towards the end in what sounded very much like vintage Deathprod. Cool stuff, but it went on for just a little too long for my liking. Others in the crowd seemed very much into it, so I guess opinions vary.
After taking their bows and walking off they came back onstage and provided another show highlight as the closer. Having just played their asses off I guess they must have been mighty tired, so the encore was a very slow, melodic jam over some simple chord changes. Arve Henriksen had plenty of space for some of his exellent, breathy trumpet playing, and he also did some very nice wordless singing during the finale. Easily the most beautiful piece of music created this evening, and definitely a fitting ending to the show. After this, even though the crowd (and I!) seemed up for more, the house lights went up and it was all over. All in all, a great concert, with plenty of highlights and some (maybe inevitable) draggy bits.
I was positioned in the middle of the room, center stage. With (super cheapo) earbuds the sound was close to perfect – lots of bottom end and nice, clear high end. I took the buds out for comparison at one point, and quickly decided to stick with them for the rest of the show. Always wear protection, as I learned from an Iggy Pop show (another story for another time).
—
Tentative set list (from memory, so it’s a little scetchy):
1 Jam >
2 Jam > LLM (Hallucifuge) >
2 Jam > The Getaway Special >
3 Jam > The Bomb-Proof Roll and Beyond
4 Groovy, explosive jam with sound dropouts
5 Slow, beautiful encore jam
Sounds like you had a good dose of motorpsycho in Trondheim… makes sense somehow
Thank you for your great report!
At times I felt that THIS was the best concert ever.
There were moments where they out-pinkfloyded Pink Floyd, and there were moments where they damn near out-motorpsychoed Motorpsycho. Outstanding.
I recorded it, but I hope there are other recordings, because I left the zoom near a speaker at the back that turned out to be in use throughout, so we can only use mine if it turns out to be the only one around. I met a guy with an Edirol, hopefully he’s on Dime…
I also attended the concert at Verkstedhallen in Trondheim, and I was extremely disappointed. Whatever little cool bits Motorpsycho tried to pull off, Supersilent thoroughly massacred with ill-fitting noises and passages that simply broke down all hope of a working tension. It’s interesting that people can experience the same gig so drastically different, ’cause I wanted to walk out several times. I’m a big fan of Motorpsycho’s seemingly neverending jams that start slow and build up towards an amazing climax, and I felt I got nothing of the sort. A waste of time and money, really.
For my part I found that the ear buds enhanced the experience a lot, as I could clearly hear WHAT they were playing at all times. I remember going to a MP-gig without them once, and when they started the droning jam during The Wheel I found it completely pointless and annoying, because it sounded as if they all just _rumbled_ on time for 10 minutes on end – all sense of melody and structure was lost.
@Hovmod: I’d definitely like to hear a recording of yesterdays show, even if it’s a low quality one it would be better than nothing.
Speaking of which, has any recording from the MP+SS tour surfaced at all so far? Nothing on Dime as far as I can tell. I’m also keeping my fingers crossed that there’s some official taping/filming going on, though there were no cameras yesterday that I could see.
Well, I wore my ear buds as always, and the sound wasn’t the problem for me. I just couldn’t get into what they were trying to do. I spoke to a few people after the show, and the feedback varied from total disaster to complete bliss. So I guess this was something that really divides people down to the middle.
A 10 minute excerpt from the Tønsberg gig here:
Quote:At times I felt that THIS was the best concert ever.There were moments where they out-pinkfloyded Pink Floyd, and there were moments where they damn near out-motorpsychoed Motorpsycho. Outstanding.
oh my. 8O Roadworks NOW!
Some pictures from Trondheim: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hovmod/sets/72157623662321592/show/
Now how to file the above given 10 minutes? Something is building up for sure, tough stuff indeed
Does this exerpt go for the “motorpsycho-isch” part, more “neutral climaxing”, or even “supersilentic” freeflow in the end? Maybe Hovmod or TAF can help?
Love the fact of mp-tour and HMF live coming closer and closer and closer :MPD:
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.