March 12, 2007
Gotan Project
We had tickets to see the Gotan Project on Sunday evening. I was ambigous about this concert which is just as well, since Jacob scuttled our plans, and we ended up instead drinking a glass of very average pinot noir in a very average local bar.
Not that I don't like the Gotan Project. Love them. Saw them three times while we were living in Amsterdam. My only complaint would be that every perfromance was almost identical. And Ok, it was a sensational perfomance well worth repeating and it did bear seeing twice, (three times was a bit much) but I was a bit nervous that the melbourne performance would also have a 'sameness' about it.
The've released some new material recently so I was hoping this would also mean a new feel for their show but the other source of my discontent was the venue. I've only ever seen the Gotan Project in a smoke-filled venue full of people wriggling their way to-and-from the bar in time to the music . Cheap red in one hand, cigarette in the other, is their any other way to be drawn into their amazing show?
A concert hall atmosphere just seems a bit too 'clean', too constrained for the best of what they do. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who went what they thought of them. Of course I won't since comments are still turned off. If you did see them you could always email me at dougiedehondAThotmail.com
Here is a review by Jeanti St Clair who saw them perfom in Sydney.
And here is a little something to look at;
Posted by Faith