The genius of being 75 year old Iggy Pop

Regarding some recent introspection albums, if we thought that after the ’70s was over, Iggy Pop was preparing to appease (and prepare us) on stage, we were totally wrong. Like a prehistoric lizard out of a glass case, it continues to writhe and howl with delight in its wild, stooge-like songs, now mixing it with more subtle pieces: avant-garde German rock accents and misty indentations like the headpiece. His latest work, Free (2019), confines himself to muttering “I want to be free” over an electronic blanket and a distant stream of trumpets.

Celebrating that Iggy Pop (Muskegon, Michigan, 1947) is in great form, modulating his character (a little) these days on his European tour, ready to break his ten-year absence from the Catalan stage with the only concert planned in the US. The Porta Ferrada Festival in Sant Feliu de Guíxols on 29 July. House doesn’t fall for her: They tour the continent for four months, including 13 appointments in perhaps her favorite European country, France (on two beautiful albums, Préliminaires, 2009 and Après, close to her chanson in 2012).

Last Sunday, there was a concert in La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse with this newspaper’s participation. An Iggy with imperial vocal range and booming bass, a dominant showman with or without a jacket, a reptile marked by skin cracks and scars, tells us it may be too late to give up on rock at age 75. n’roll. ‘roll.

more open repertoire

While we can most recently see it with The Stooges and at major festivals (it went through Primavera Sound, Cruïlla, and the extinct Summercase and Doctor Loft between 2005 and 2012), this tour is average auditoriums with the affinity and trend for theaters and nuances. And now, abandoning The Stooges, he can open up the recently neglected parts of his solo career, such as the late 70s Berlin stage, which brought five songs to the repertoire, as well as the frame and cover parts.

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He has a band for it, a beautiful septet (five French) featuring a keyboardist and two brass purveyors of other textures, as a novelty based on Five foot one from the album New Values ​​(1979). An artist in a jacket with nothing underneath, relaxed in the role of a stretchy and vagrant aristocrat, ready for a monologue as serious as it is brutal: cloudy and slow from the millennial TV eye and the danger of Gimme. Mass-produced numbers from the last work (Loves is missing and Free only mentions it) and The Idiot (1977), the result of The endless sea and his alliance with David Bowie. Moments for an elegant screeching guitar set by Greg Fauque and Sarah Lipstate (the sonic landscape architect better known as The Noveller).

Noble vandalism at La Halle aux Grains, an exquisite symphony concert hall (and home of the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse) where we can see what it means to be 75-year-old Iggy Pop. different at this point. His favorite The Stooges is The Stooges, who, as he enters the stands in Lust for life and The Passenger, enjoys the touch of the public on his bare torso and remembers the “dirty and poor” band that existed “long ago”. The song, as it says, I’m sick of you.

That rock from Detroit has never been more precious, and the bath of chants (I want to be your dog, Search and destroy) intersected with traces of another depth, legacy of the German avant-garde, Sister’s midnight cyber funk, sleepwalking. Nightclub and Neu!’s version of Hero, “the best krautrock band,” with layers of grainy electronica he sings while dancing with an enthusiastic fan who might be his grandson. Being Iggy Pop has always been phenomenal and something else at 75.

Source: Informacion

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