None of the previous three visits of björk it was “another recital” nor a predictable concert. It has always been a dazzling experience like his albums and videos, with a lot of experimentation and technology but also a waste of emotional and sensitive songs.
Now, in full local port of the famous Spanish festival spring soundBjörk arrived for the first “official” date (not counting the previous one with Jack White or the shows around the city) and appeared at Costanera Sur after the Argentine Feli Colina and the Mexican Julieta Venegas.
The sound impact
It was already known that it would be a different show, accompanied only by an orchestra, but no one could imagine the sonic impact of the Icelandic’s unique voice along with the Colon Stable Orchestra. And it was impressive, especially for the contrast of the festival setting (tents, posters, a crowd of 20,000 people) with the intimacy of a concert that could have taken place at the Teatro Colón.
To take dimension of the powerful visual image, it should be noted that they were on stage 4 cellos, 6 violas and 24 violins, as well as a director who wore a white shirt and a black semi-tight dress. And she, of course, the singer with a sweet voice and a multicolored costume with helmet / mask included.
Björk’s idea, from a minute before the 2020 pandemic, was to go on tour with an “orkestral” show of classic pieces from his career. Two years later, she managed to reach him without changing almost anything after the appearance of a new album, Fossoraof which it only included one theme.
Thus, the repertoire had similar successes Hunter, Isobel, Joga Y hyperballedbut also delicacies such as I saw everything.
The beginning
The beginning was with Milkman of stonesfrom vulnerability (2015), and from then on there were almost some 75 minutes of pure magica time spell that even featured a perfect moon in the sky, which cameramen couldn’t resist showing on video screens.
A short show, then, like that Prince at River in 1991, and just as powerful. Sometimes it is not necessary to play three hours to leave the audience breathless, as the Icelandic has shown.
Björk spoke little and practically had no exchange with the audience, apart from a small shout of “Thank you!” at the end of each theme, and a request to sing happy birthday to a member of her staff, before the encore with Pluto.
The rest was a parade of dreamy songs, sounds between ethereal, epic and dramatic, in which he simply danced on his huge shoes that seemed to come from the wardrobe of Gene Simmons.
And the audience celebrated, celebrated and applauded everything, even his minimal gestures or the movement of the winking body. Swan Lake. She smiled and the people lit up, thanking her art with the tribunero song of “Olé, olé, olé, B-jork, B-jork!”
As data for collectors and fans, he sang the songs live for the first time free fall Y You’re flirting again.
With this fourth visit it is clear, in case anyone doubts it, that there is not only one Björk but severalfrom the one who sang in theaters to the one who put together an interdisciplinary project and then surrounded herself with girls in tunics in the old Municipal Fair, or this one with classical music trends … and decidedly modern at the same time.
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Source: Clarin
