Jaz
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Well well well, I'm back... and here is my 'review'. Report. Whatever.
We visited a concert on Saturday/Sunday which featured three bands, two of which I knew I liked... but as usual, the openers stole my heart.
The show as a whole was a mess... a real mess. A beautiful location, great music, but organization was extremely shoddy.
The first band to play were Coppelius (linking to two videos here). I knew two of their EPs and thus I was sure I wouldn't be disappointed - but these boys rock. Coppelius are a very entertaining and exciting stage act. They play what they call 'Chamber Core' or 'Heavy Wood': Iron Maiden covers and their own comopisitions - with drums, bass, cello and two clarinets, the latter being the lead instruments. I was so excited by their performance - and the stage show on the old video is nothing compared to the wacky stuff they did on Saturday - I bought a Coppelius band shirt (last band shirt I bought was Alice in Chains in... hmmm... '92?). They also continued to play their stage act after the show which lead to a very funny incident with my friend Hashimoto.
Anyway, they left us enthusiastic... and the next act came on stage asking us what she was expected to do here (she had watched the opening performance, too). A good question. Neuland is the solo project of Anna from medieval folk act Schandmaul. While Anna is a talented violinist, she and her support played 'real' chamber music which calmed the audience down instantly. Instead of listening to the music, people started to talk to each other or left for the foyer.
The next act was Letzte Instanz, originally a Nu-Metal-formation. They turned folk rock at some time in their career and do sound a lot like Schandmaul now.
Unfortunately, they were on their '"White Tour", featuring their acoustic album. The album is fantastic, they played for nearly two hours, but as it was another real chamber performance, nothing happened on stage (strings sat on their chairs and the singer stood stock-still), so again, many peole left for the foyer (and I bought another Coppelius shirt). Anna Katharina and Letzte Instanz are good acts, but they had deserved their own show, especially since LI played for over two hours, so when the final act Tanzwut appeared on stage, it was Sunday morning already. Tanzwut are a side project of Corvus Corax (some of you may know CC as they contributed to the Gothic 3 soundtrack... besides, they were the mentors of In Extremo who some of you may remember from Gothic 1), they partied on stage for hours, and their show was very, very entertaing. We had to leave early, though, because we had another date to attend in the morning... sigh.
Had the people who organized this event split the show in two (Coppelius/Tanzwut and Anna/LI), things would have been a lot better.
We visited a concert on Saturday/Sunday which featured three bands, two of which I knew I liked... but as usual, the openers stole my heart.
The show as a whole was a mess... a real mess. A beautiful location, great music, but organization was extremely shoddy.
The first band to play were Coppelius (linking to two videos here). I knew two of their EPs and thus I was sure I wouldn't be disappointed - but these boys rock. Coppelius are a very entertaining and exciting stage act. They play what they call 'Chamber Core' or 'Heavy Wood': Iron Maiden covers and their own comopisitions - with drums, bass, cello and two clarinets, the latter being the lead instruments. I was so excited by their performance - and the stage show on the old video is nothing compared to the wacky stuff they did on Saturday - I bought a Coppelius band shirt (last band shirt I bought was Alice in Chains in... hmmm... '92?). They also continued to play their stage act after the show which lead to a very funny incident with my friend Hashimoto.
Anyway, they left us enthusiastic... and the next act came on stage asking us what she was expected to do here (she had watched the opening performance, too). A good question. Neuland is the solo project of Anna from medieval folk act Schandmaul. While Anna is a talented violinist, she and her support played 'real' chamber music which calmed the audience down instantly. Instead of listening to the music, people started to talk to each other or left for the foyer.
The next act was Letzte Instanz, originally a Nu-Metal-formation. They turned folk rock at some time in their career and do sound a lot like Schandmaul now.
Unfortunately, they were on their '"White Tour", featuring their acoustic album. The album is fantastic, they played for nearly two hours, but as it was another real chamber performance, nothing happened on stage (strings sat on their chairs and the singer stood stock-still), so again, many peole left for the foyer (and I bought another Coppelius shirt). Anna Katharina and Letzte Instanz are good acts, but they had deserved their own show, especially since LI played for over two hours, so when the final act Tanzwut appeared on stage, it was Sunday morning already. Tanzwut are a side project of Corvus Corax (some of you may know CC as they contributed to the Gothic 3 soundtrack... besides, they were the mentors of In Extremo who some of you may remember from Gothic 1), they partied on stage for hours, and their show was very, very entertaing. We had to leave early, though, because we had another date to attend in the morning... sigh.
Had the people who organized this event split the show in two (Coppelius/Tanzwut and Anna/LI), things would have been a lot better.
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