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Een betoverend mooi werkstuk en in deze resolutie het luisteren meer dan waard. De beschrijving hieronder klopt perfect.

Cave performed these 22 career-spanning songs alone in a deserted concert hall, reworking them into haunted piano sermons that glow with unnerving intimacy.

That contemplative approach means Cave doesn’t so much strip songs down as peel back the flesh and expose their skeletal beauty. “Sad Waters” is recast as a pretty, tumbling lament; “Stranger Than Kindness” is broken down into a ghostly hymn; an otherworldly “Girl in Amber” entrances. Nearly a third of the set is taken from 1997’s The Boatman’s Call, a choice which forges a spiritual link between that record’s stately heartbreak and Ghosteen’s sublime ruminations on grief. In Alexandra Palace’s lavish, uncanny void, the lines between past and present start to blur, and compositions become unstuck in time. Twenty-year-old wounds are as tender as purpling bruises on “Brompton Oratory” and “Far From Me,” while Cave’s choked falsetto on the sparse, sumptuous “Black Hair” suggests the scent that an ex-lover left on his pillow still fills his nostrils. “Waiting For You,” on the other hand, emerged just last year, yet he purges the Ghosteen version’s gauzy electronic sheen until only a brittle prayer remains, and his voice cracks as if he’s spent an eternity in purgatory.

About 30-odd minutes in, just after he’s finished a forlorn “(Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?,” Cave lets slip a quick, disbelieving chuckle, as if suddenly snapping out of a reverie. Otherwise, there’s no talking, no wisecracking, no concession that anyone else might be listening in as he reckons with his life’s work. The result is a performance that exists in a strange hinterland, an album that’s unnervingly intimate yet flickers with the strange unreality of a dream. Idiot Prayer is as up-close and personal an encounter with Cave as there’s ever been. But a little mystery remains, always.

Tracks:  
01. Spinning Song 
02. Idiot Prayer 
03. Sad Waters 
04. Brompton Oratory 
05. Palaces of Montezuma 
06. Girl in Amber 
07. Man in the Moon 
08. Nobody's Baby Now 
09. (Are You) the One That I’ve Been Waiting For 
10. Waiting for You 
11. The Mercy Seat 
12. Euthanasia 
13. Jubilee Street 
14. Far from Me 
15. He Wants You 
16. Higgs Boson Blues 
17. Stranger Than Kindness 
18. Into My Arms 
19. The Ship Song 
20. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry 
21. Black Hair 
22. Galleon Ship 

Staat er om 01.30 uur compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster.

“Muziek is kunst en kunst moet voor iedereen bereikbaar zijn, anders is het elitair.”