The use of electronic music to mobilize the masses has no secrets for the French Jean-Michel Jarre, who today renewed its communion with the public at Sónar Barcelona (northwest) festival, where he has made the world premiere of his new show.
When programmers Sónar forward a few months ago the veteran composer Gallo would be one of the headliners of this year many were caught changed them over.
king of the electronics grandly seventies at Sonar? Yes, Jarre, who still holds the record for the French best-selling album in history with Oxygène, presented in Barcelona its show based on “Electronics” two albums that has worked with the cream of the current electronic scene, and contemporary classics like Pet Shop Boys.
the new Jarre has been seen today in the SónarClub scenario, as usual standing on a raised platform in front of a giant screen leds cascade, it seems that not only the lover of environmental and spatial sounds to illustrate documentaries, but at times the themes of “the time Machine” and “the heart of noise”, had echoes of the best “big beat” Chemical Brothers.
the composer, who from his pulpit on stage moved like a little mad scientist with an air of Peter Pan with sunglasses, made their contribution critical social this dream that was advertised as the most combative in recent years.
Jarre has approached the former informant NSA Edward Snowden, now disgraced and refuge in Moscow after disclose documents classified as top secret. In this “great friend Snowden,” as he described, he has dedicated “Exit”, a song in collaboration with him precisely on the dangers of big brother, and sounded wrapped in a spectacular audiovisual montage.
the face of Snowden has then appeared on stage as a live connection to disappear shortly after pixelated, buried by the control technology.
it is paradoxical that the images of this complaint on the absolute surveillance has been recorded by the cameras of thousands of phones which will then be posted on social networks. So is this world that is thought critical.
More radical in form and substance it has been the proposal Anohni, the artist transgender formerly known as Antony Hagerty, who after fifteen minutes waiting for the screening of a video of a suggestive model dancing on the screen, has appeared on stage completely covered SónarPub with a kind of Burka, but for others it was a Jedi cloak, equally disturbing.
This was the other big premiere Friday night, the first concert in Europe Anohni, one of the most lucid voices of the electronic scene, who presented his new work” Hopelessness “statement of principles on distrust Total that causes today’s society, including policies of the first black president of his country, Barack Obama.
there will be renamed once again, but the voice of Anohni remains pure feeling, deep tear in each of the themes of this work whose title could not be more revealing, hopelessness, and that includes keynote moments like “4 degrees”, “I do not love you anymore” or the eponymous “hopelessness” inabarcables in the throat of this artist.
While Anohni sang in the side screens, images of women, some of ambiguous face, many of them black, some of ADVANCED age, somewhat usual in a festival, reciting songs with her, or looked questioning the viewer, a direct way to give visibility to a group that in many countries hidden under a cloth lives.
the Jarre and Anohni are just two of the near twenty actions planned for the evening session on Friday Sónar festival in four stages spread in the Fira Gran Via, including the British James Blake or Australian Flume.
in addition, the festival will continue on Saturday with a final marathon day, which will last until the wee hours of Sunday, which among other artists is expected to act the legendary British band New Order, Skepta, Booka Shade, Boys Noize or Yung Lean, to name only some of the members from a list of about fifty names.
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