In the queue in front of the Michel Berger Hotel in Berlin-Friedrichshain: A middle-aged woman runs over and asks curious, what find here. “Here, the American rock musician plays the same.” Bon who?, the amused perplexity seems to be asking on your face. And anyway, An American with a French-sounding name? Enigmatic. And so the wife pulls out of the way, while in the courtyard of the Hipster Hotels shortly thereafter, one of the most important and most exclusive concerts of the year.
Bon Iver (pronounced like the “good Winter” in French), the name is actually Justin Vernon, and this Friday, his third Album was released, would be happy about this scene. Not only is the 35-Year-old from Wisconsin surrounds himself with an Aura of a hermit of mystery. The few Interviews he gave, it was found that he lived in the past few years, severe Depression, and a sense of crisis, the him, especially with his unlikely Status as a celebrated pop star rag. Most of all he would have ceased to be a Diner in the mid-West opened up, flipped burgers, coffee will be served.
in 2011, with his second Album, the bearded man with the shaggy, but already thinning hair and the silty appearance of a good-natured auto mechanic, an icon of recent Indie-rock music. His fragile falsetto vocals and a light, floating, glistening electrified devotional folk were boys ‘ became a Synonym for a verse, frightened choir, recorded a number of young white Popmänner to that time, including the British singer James Blake. R&B Superstar Kanye West had to recognize the Crossover potential of Bon Iver’s early, and Vernon as a Co-Songwriter for his Album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”, on the brutal successor to the “Yeezus” was he involved.
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Bon Iver in the Michel Berger: Americana from the effects unit
The cooperation with the West and its penchant for sonic manipulations and musical Abrasion is reflected on “22, A Million”, the touching and amazing Album, with Bon Iver from the Phase of mental distress returns. How West on his Heartbreak Album, “808 And Heartbreak” turns on Vernon, a filter membrane between his emotions and the listener, consistently distorted, and he modulated his falsetto through a Vocoder effect.
What he sings exactly in the ten pieces of the plate, remains behind art song reveals rare titles like “715 – CRKS”, “666 “, or “10 d E A T h b R E a s T” and more fragmentary, Stream-of-Consciousness-hidden verses. Current photos of Vernon hides his face, the album cover is hieroglyphics an obscure arrangement of signs, symbols, fantasy, Ying and Yang. A Puzzle and search game for the Internet Generation, which communicates in Codes and images.
It’s great, but why?
no less, and gone with the music: Electronic Strum throbbing and geisterg Woe is added with gentle, often versampelten guitar Synthesizer and saxophone sounds to a sound kaleidoscope – a of song structures, largely free of Hiss, and polka dots, in the Vernons artifizierte voice is the unifying Element sounds verspult now. All of the acts caught up in a fascinating way, and suggests a Saint, after purity and redemption, aspiring grandeur. It’s great, but why?
In the courtyard of the Michelberger hotel, such questions need to be soon, and no one answers. The high, bright brick walls of the building are to have a kind of Cathedral, round paper lanterns, their long paper fringe in the gentle Wind in the warm autumn tags flutter and rattle, this sound effect was part of the open concept of the album.
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Bon Iver in the Michel Berger Hotel, Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, 28. September
Justin Vernon and his three band members are dressed in work pants, Hoodies and Sportkäppis. They have built a stage arrangement, which is more reminiscent of techno concerts in Berghain as a rock concert under the open sky. The four musicians stand or sit, some can with a guitar, behind desks with effect devices, which are in square to each other, so that they Generate the rhythmic and the communication of their sounds and noises to communicate with each other. To the public they offer only their back views. I get it: It’s all about the music, not to shy away from protagonists. From time to time, waving Vernon link in the quantity or mumbling a humble “Thank you for Coming.”
refusal
The audience is with this renunciation of any rock star pose more than satisfied and weighs in anon beatific to the beat, whenever the sound of a melody or a coherent Beat polka dots for a few moments emerge. Then, it is clear that Vernon’s music just sounds Hyper-modern, by the spectra of black music, R&B, Soul and Gospel, as well as the experimental electronics Genre feeds. In truth, it rests but, in the West coast Sample of “10 d E A T h b R E a s T” or in the Heartland Pathos of “8 (circle)”, safe and sound in the traditional American rock music. In the case of Springsteen and Jackson Browne, James Taylor and Waylon Jennings. The Back-to-the-roots-anthem “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” to Vernons favorite songs.
There are the classic Folk – and Country-Soul tunes, pure Americana, that forms the DNA of Bon Ivers music. No wonder she seems to be so spontaneous familiar and warm not umkuschelt, although they formulated us full instrumental and analog is mediated, but with sound scraps from the Computer.
Bon Iver is not so to be understood as a Pop Innovator, even if he is expanding his Genre, both musically and in the digital Modern advances. Rather, he is searching for his soul salvation, before the impositions of Hyper-accelerated time, the economic toughness of the Music business and the fame management in the sentimental-comforting Regression to the innocent radio sound of his Childhood. The refusal of the Performance, the interview, or, as announced, also the classic tour program. And the music for the retro-degrees-of-escapism-and for us all: Instead of me to the outside world, out, games, I prefer to work with me and build me an echo-chamber from diffuse melancholy and tendon trigger addiction.
This has nothing to do with Rock’n’Roll and its traditional mechanisms, not even with the deconstruction of masculinity, gestures of the Pop. The sexiness and desire in this music lies solely in the promise of oblivion and extinction. “It might be over soon,” repeats Justin Vernon jubilierend in the first piece of his album. The Winter can come.
Bon Iver at the Michel Berger-Music-Festival
On the weekend will be presented the results of the DIY Sessions at a Festival in the radio house.
Tickets: www.michelbergermusic.com.
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