October 26 2016
Cirque Eloise
The Red Bull Music Academy organised this event where Bjork was going to do a Dj set for 3 hours over 2 days in a very small venue in old port Montreal.
I was going to go to this event for a few reasons:
-I've been following Bjork since the Sugarcubes
-Bjork has been creating such a wide palette of music
-I tought i would discover a lot of new music
-i was going to a club event to dance all night
Needless to say that Bjork was quiet most of the night and letting her music make statements about herself. She was masked and playing in a forest setting from a small corner of the room which was the weirdest aspect of the night.
I was going to the first set of the festival so i didnt know what to expect at all.
The show started with 20 minutes of birds chirping and singing then finally followed some soft singing and really atmospheric.
Throughout the night as an effort to be able to listen to some of this stuff later i was trying to Shazzam the songs which tended to be more difficult than i had expected...
At some point she started to have some songs with more beats and thats when she started dancing.
Those beats werent easy to dance to for anyone in the room other than Bjork who seemed to be really into it. I guess you really had to be in her head to understand.
After more than an hour, some beats were normal enough to be able to start dancing for a bit until it all switched to really experimental music.
Bjork was combining a lot of samples to create new music throughout the event like a real dj would do and thats part of what i expected from the night.
As time went, she played song with more rhythm and more played some pop songs such as Ariane Grande which was a big surprise and a big departure from everything that we came to expect from the evening or Bjork.
The last half hour of the show when most people had gone, she started playing whole songs with not a lot of sampling but probably just what she wanted to hear.
She left by waving her hand goodbye and she never said a word the whole set hidden behind her cat mask.
That night she played 3 hours of music fetching from all spheres of music from electro, industrial sonority, classical music, minimalism, Pakistan soufis singing, hindouist traditional, african mandingue percussions, indie pop and R&B.
Too bad for Bjork that a good part of the crowd couldnt really get into the music but it was good to hear what she was inspired by.
The crowd dispersed quite early around 11pm with only few left when she "said" goodbye at 12:03am.
Shazzamed:
I was going to go to this event for a few reasons:
-I've been following Bjork since the Sugarcubes
-Bjork has been creating such a wide palette of music
-I tought i would discover a lot of new music
-i was going to a club event to dance all night
Needless to say that Bjork was quiet most of the night and letting her music make statements about herself. She was masked and playing in a forest setting from a small corner of the room which was the weirdest aspect of the night.
I was going to the first set of the festival so i didnt know what to expect at all.
The show started with 20 minutes of birds chirping and singing then finally followed some soft singing and really atmospheric.
Throughout the night as an effort to be able to listen to some of this stuff later i was trying to Shazzam the songs which tended to be more difficult than i had expected...
At some point she started to have some songs with more beats and thats when she started dancing.
Those beats werent easy to dance to for anyone in the room other than Bjork who seemed to be really into it. I guess you really had to be in her head to understand.
After more than an hour, some beats were normal enough to be able to start dancing for a bit until it all switched to really experimental music.
Bjork was combining a lot of samples to create new music throughout the event like a real dj would do and thats part of what i expected from the night.
As time went, she played song with more rhythm and more played some pop songs such as Ariane Grande which was a big surprise and a big departure from everything that we came to expect from the evening or Bjork.
The last half hour of the show when most people had gone, she started playing whole songs with not a lot of sampling but probably just what she wanted to hear.
She left by waving her hand goodbye and she never said a word the whole set hidden behind her cat mask.
That night she played 3 hours of music fetching from all spheres of music from electro, industrial sonority, classical music, minimalism, Pakistan soufis singing, hindouist traditional, african mandingue percussions, indie pop and R&B.
Too bad for Bjork that a good part of the crowd couldnt really get into the music but it was good to hear what she was inspired by.
The crowd dispersed quite early around 11pm with only few left when she "said" goodbye at 12:03am.
Shazzamed:
-shara worden "death speaks no1"
-robbie basho. "Salangadou"
-peder Mannerfelt "limits to growth"
-Arca "snakes"
-serpentwithfeet "four ethers"
-Rahsaan Roland Kirk "inflated tear"
-Sampha "plastic 10c"
-Mala "kotos"
-w0rm "b612"
-compton white "mainland"
-lanark artefax "virtual bodihes"
-odeko "tsundoku"
-arca "vanity"
-teengirl fantasy "lung"
-abida parveen "aaj rang hai"
-aby ngana diop "ndadje"
-anohni "4 degrees"
- cadenza feat avelino "no drama"
-anohni "obama"
-pygmies ""nzombi"
-ariane grande "into you"
-nao "bad blood"
-usha uthup "i will survive (party cover)"
-jeremih "planes","oui"
-reshma "lambi judai"
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