I wasn’t at all impressed with Four Tet’s show in the Temple Bar Music Centre last November. It was mostly noodly electronica in which Kieran Hebden hinted at playing a song one minute but then went on a strange musical tangent for six minutes. It was a hint of what Hebden had in store when he walked out on stage wearing a Miles Davis ‘On the Corner’ t-shirt and proceeded to produce a kind of freeform effects-driven electronica show with a similar ethos to the legendary Davis album except with one musician. and a few machines. It didn’t really work that night, but the Kid Koala support slot more than made up for it (especially Moon River and a version of Molly Malone!! ).
Having said that, I’ll let you decide for yourself as the Official Four Tet site has a live show in mp3 from Melbourne for a limited time. Check it out here.
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Oi, have you heard that thing he did with Steve Reid? It’s even more noodly than the typical Four Tet noodling, and there’s plenty of that buggering off on tangents malarky he seems to love. Good stuff though, if you want your jazz spot to be tickled.
Oi, have you heard that thing he did with Steve Reid? It’s even more noodly than the typical Four Tet noodling, and there’s plenty of that buggering off on tangents malarky he seems to love. Good stuff though, if you want your jazz spot to be tickled.
couldn’t agree more – it was very obscure stuff, almost unlistenable at times but kid koala was fucking incredible – was i just dreaming or did he throw in some sample of a Pope JP11 speech as well??!
couldn’t agree more – it was very obscure stuff, almost unlistenable at times but kid koala was fucking incredible – was i just dreaming or did he throw in some sample of a Pope JP11 speech as well??!
I don’t remember that!!
I don’t remember that!!
could’ve sworn it was him! either way, it was bloody brillant! would be great if they got him back to play EP
could’ve sworn it was him! either way, it was bloody brillant! would be great if they got him back to play EP