DAVID BYRNE - Austin City Limits Music Festival TEXAS USA 2018 | Big O

 

This is nice and a fine quality broadcast from Big O this morning.  (Usual terms apply - don’t read the comments section - its full of schoolboy Merkin Trolls!) 

Big O reports from the Austin Chronicle this:

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Doug Freeman, austinchronicle.com [October 6, 2018]:

Emerging quietly and alone on the massive ACL main stage set up with only a small table and wooden chair, the 'Talking Head' sat down and held up a model of man’s center of intellect: “Here is a region of abundant details. Here is a region that is seldom used.”

Then he launched his Friday afternoon set behind “Here,” closing track to this year’s American Utopia. Byrne, 66, followed with an hourlong dive into the subconscious behind primal, percussive rhythms and his cerebral, almost absurdist lyrics. Even as the band swelled to eight members on “Lazy” and then 12 with “I Zimbra,” the show remained minimal and precise, all instruments strapped to the players as they marched around the stage in free-flow formations.

The 13-song set rested heavily on Talking Heads favorites, revving midway with “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” and “Once in a Lifetime” as the band sweat through their matching gray suits and the funky, stripped-down, New Wave rhythms increasingly entranced behind Byrne’s charmingly awkward vogues. Likewise, the double shot of “Road to Nowhere” and “Burning Down the House” sent the crowd into a dancing frenzy.

Yet Byrne saved his most powerful statement for last – a cover of Janelle Monáe’s “Hell You Talmbout.” The full band shouted a litany of names of African-Americans slain by police, demanding recognition and atonement as Byrne shifted focus from the subconscious to collective conscience.

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Track 01. Here 4:36
Track 02. Lazy 4:25
Track 03. I Zimbra 3:11
Track 04. Slippery People 5:29
Track 05. Everybody’s Coming to My House 3:45
Track 06. This Must Be the Place 4:57
Track 07. Once in a Lifetime 6:15
Track 08. Toe Jam 3:43
Track 09. I Dance Like This 4:43
Track 10. Everyday Is A Miracle 5:15
Track 11. Road to Nowhere 4:18
Track 12. Burning Down the House 4:31
Track 13. Hell You Talmbout (Janelle Monáe cover) 6:18
62 mins

Austin City Limits Music Festival. American Express Stage, Zilker Park, Austin, Texas; October 5, 2018. Very good audio (ripped from HDTV webcast). So very good quality

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