If you have a chance to see them live, I would definitely recommend it. Very impressive - especially since I didn't know that she could play keys. She was playing a pretty complex bass line while comping with the RH and singing - in meters that shifted between 11/4 and 10/4 as far as I could tell/feel. She showed of some really impressive LH bass skills in one of their first songs. Lead singer Nai Palm was playing a Korg SV1 for one or two songs as well. It sounded really great but had a tendency to get lost in the mix when the reverb was dialed up. On top of the Kronos he had what looked like a Strymon Big Sky reverb pedal that he ran the MS2000 through. On the second tier he had some kind of Roland keyboard, perhaps just a controller. The keyboardist, Simon Mavin, was playing a Korg Kronos and a Korg MS2000. The newer songs with eight meter changes and breaks every fifth bar can be a bit to much after a while - a bit ostentatious and showy.īut all in all I really liked the concert! I would have to say that I like the older and more 'simple' stuff more as well. However, she really liked some of their older tracks like 'Nakamurra', they are a bit easier to follow rhythmically. It's really groovy with a lot of polyrhythm and breaks - as a musician I find it really interesting to listen to, but my girlfriend - a self proclaimed Taylor Swift lover - found it a bit to "weird" at times. They played a lot of new material from their newest album 'Choose your weapon'. My first comment: Great show! You really have to admire the level of musicianship that these guys have.
I had tickets to their concert last night at Gramercy Theatre in NYC.
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