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Last sunday, I had the opportunity to go to one of the concerts that has surprised me the most.

Seen Moby’s electronic background, it was too difficult to imagine a 100% unplugged concert, even more when thinking about my favourite songs (they are all quite electronic). Actually, it wasn’t 100% unplugged, as they used an electric bass guitar as he said: “We couldn’t find a decent acoustic bass guitar, so it is not a 100% unplugged concert,  apologies for that” (or something similar, I don’t remember the exact words he used).

The concert started with Kelli Scarr singing some of her songs. She has been helped by Moby to create her new album ‘Piece’, and to be honest, she has a really sweet voice, although it reminds me to Feist voice. I liked her. You can download her new songs from her website, I already did that.

I really appreciate musicians that bring the opportunity to download some of their music, I always buy them at the end (if I like it, of course, but that is almost every time ).

Then Moby showed on the stage. He started to speak, and the only thing he was saying was “thank you thank you thank you”. They started with ‘Pale horses’ from the new album. Amazing, how it sounded with the violins, the cello, the piano, well, everything!

In the middle of the concert, they stopped for an interview. Sophie Heawood, an award-winning music journalist was in charge of it. Most of the questions were from the audience, and there were two I remember I liked the most: this was obvious “Why does your heart feels so bad?”. Moby answered some guy (don’t remember the name) said the album Play wasn’t so good, so his heart felt so bad after listening to that album (lol). The second question I remember was from some music students that need to make some kind of project and they wanted to quote Moby, so he said: “Big music labels deserve to die”, all in a humour tone, of course. He seemed so unpretentious, like he was talking to a bunch of friends on his living-room. I really liked him.

Then the concert continued, playing all of my favourites songs Lift me up,  Find my baby, Why does my heart feel so bad?, Slipping away, We all are made of stars , and finished the concert with  Honey.

Most of the songs were sung by Kelli Scarr and Joy, a purely blues/soul voice that trapped you and makes you don’t want to listen to anything else.

It was a wonderful night. Thanks Moby!

And here is one of his new songs. I love it and the cartoons are amazing!

Llevo ya un año y pico viviendo en Londres, y a pesar de que hecho de menos España, no puedo dejar de reconocer que esta ciudad es la caña.

No solo porque vas a un bar de copas y no estas escuchando a David Bisbal, sino que la oferta cultural es inmensa (e impresionante).

Imagináos ahora un escenario, tres columnas enormes, como si fueran tres rascacielos que se iluminan y ves sombras de gente subiendo por sus escaleras internas. Entonces de repente, se escucha un estrépito y el suelo comienza a temblar como si de un terremoto se tratara. Era causado por 23.000 personas pegando botes al ritmo de Uprising y yo me encontraba entre ellas.

Nos sorprendió bastante, pero la siguiente fue Resistance, una de mis favoritas del último disco. Y luego, empezaron a tocar de los discos antiguos… New born, Time is running out, Supermassive Blackhole, Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome, Unintended (va por ti Javi!), Starlight, Map of the Problematique… intercalando algunas del nuevo… Undisclosed Desires, Unnatural Selection, United States of Eurasia, Guiding Light y Exogenesis (Overture en el bis).

Y para terminar, por qué no con una de las mejores:

A pesar de que el concierto me encantó y disfruté como una enana (no es que sea yo muy alta, no), me ‘decepcionaron’ un poco ya que no tocaron ninguna de las dos que yo considero como las mejores: Butterflies and Hurricanes e Invincible.

Pero bueno, Madrid prepárate, porque lo vas a flipar!

Como amante de la música que soy, no puedo dejar de compartir esto con vosotros los pocos que leéis (gracias por ello) este humilde blog.

El proyecto que os presento aquí es una forma más de pedir la paz en el mundo. Tal y como describen en la web del proyecto, es un movimiento multimedia creado para inspirar, conectar y traer paz al mundo a través de la música. Y no creo que haya mejor manera de hacer esto.

Tienen varios episodios, pero el que a mí me ha gustado es la interpretación de la canción del gran Ben E. King, Stand By me.

Aquí os dejo el vídeo y espero que no dejéis de visitar la web del proyecto.

A mí se me ha puesto la piel de gallina. Que lo disfrutéis.