Life is a Mosaic

Musicroom: David Gray concert

I really have to share this with you :)

Two moths ago, I was sad to find out that the tickets to this concert are sold out. However, I promised myself to go there on the day of the concert and try to get in. And I succeeded.

The show started with Rodrigo y Gabriella performance, which actually was quite impressive. You see a girl and a guy with guitars, but they move their fingers so fast, that you hardly can see anything apart some moving sketchiness around the strings. And the music was great! Live guitar performance was a good start...

...David Gray was Magic. The first time I discovered this singer is by hearing Babylon and since then 'White Ladder' is one of my albums of a lifetime. For the concert my expectations were high, and still they were over-fulfilled...

He came on the stage with all his band, in a suit and looked very excited. He said Hi to the crowd and sat straight to keyboards. The frst song was not the one I knes but it was very very nice. And, luckily, David din't spend all concert at the piano. nd it was sooooo exciting to hear the best songs from White Ladder album, like Babylon, We're not Right, This Years Love, Silver Lining, Please Forgive Me... The latter one was really exclusive, musicians went crazy, audience as well :) The song itself is very nice, has different variations, pauses, fades, and live it looked just great, the crowd sang together for almost all the song!

Please forgive me
If I act alittle strange
For I know not what I do.
Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you ...

In this concert I was totally in another planet :)

Every single person on the stage was an artist, and they were dedicated to music they are playing, you could tell. A crazy drummer, who was changing his face expressions according to the rythm he was beating and also having time to warm up the public... the chelo player, the other muscians, they all were not just performers, they were true artists :)

Maybe it sounds too surraeal to be true, and I may not be too objective as David's White Ladder is in my top 10 albums of a lifetime (it was released in 1998!) , but the concert itself was organized very well. All the settting of the stage, all performers, the concert itself was long and Bis was also more than one song :)

However, this concert was so in the right time and place for me... It is really healing my soul from the crazy life that I'm living at the moment. It seems that his music now fits the best with my mindflow.

So yeah, the new album Life in Slow Motion is in my playlist all the time, and Now and Always is one of the songs I tend to repeat a lot :) I cannot help it, it's just so good :)

posted by Vija @ 3:31 PM