The final years of the 1990s for Kraftwerk were interesting. After the successful tour for the album The Mix (1991), Kraftwerk made a series of memorable performances across Europe, which lasted until 1993, with performances at small events and only returning to the stage in 1997 at The Tribal Gathering Festival (1993 - 2004/UK).
1998 they made presentations outside the main countries in Europe, going to Japan, the USA and for the first time in Latin America.
This recording at the Warfield Theater (San Francisco - California) is considered by many fans to be one of the best recordings.
And the year 1998 marked the end of the use of the classic (legendary) and analogue studio Kling Klang on stage. And the last tour using calculators =(.
However, they presented the public with three new tracks.
In this recording that I publish here, there is a gap between the tracks in a cut in one of them. This was the most complete file I found with the best recording.
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David Byrne has a long history of staging elaborate live shows, often with a sprawling cast of musicians, highly choreographed dancing and unusual instrumentation. So when we learned he wanted to have more than a dozen performers at the Tiny Desk, playing everything from cello, saxophone and marimba to a Brazilian timbau and zabumba (not to mention various guitars and keys), we weren't sure we'd be able to fit it all in.
It turns out his latest tour, for the album Who Is The Sky?, is well designed for our roughly 10 by 11-foot space. Though Byrne and his band do normally spread out across large stages, the set design for each show is almost completely bare, without any cables or amps, and the artists wear or carry compact, custom-made instruments to make it easier to move, almost like a marching band.
It's cozy, but Byrne and his band, in matching, brilliant blue suits, squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, opening with the euphoric "Everybody Laughs," followed by "Don't Be Like That," both from his new album. They also perform two Talking Heads songs: "(Nothing But) Flowers," from the 1988 album Naked, and a show-stopping version of "Life During Wartime," from 1979's Fear of Music.
It was a bucket-list performance for the Tiny Desk. Afterward, as the rest of the band and crew dispersed, Byrne hopped on a rented bike for a solo ride through the District on a beautiful, fall afternoon.
SET LIST
"Everybody Laughs"
"Don't Be Like That"
"(Nothing But) Flowers"
"Life During Wartime"
MUSICIANS
David Byrne: vocals, guitar
Mauro Refosco: percussion, music director
Ray Suen: guitar, bass, violin, music director
Kely Pinheiro: bass, cello
Daniel Mintseris: keys
Stephane San Juan: drums
Tim Keiper: percussion
Yuri Yamashita: percussion, marimba
Tendayi Kuumba: background vocals
Sasha Rivero: background vocals
Hannah Straney: background vocals
Sean Donovan: background vocals
Jordan Dobson: saxophone, background vocals
Le guitariste Rodolphe Burger et le multi-instrumentiste Julien Perraudeau rendent hommage à Kraftwerk en réinterprétant l’intégralité de l’album Radio-Activity. Une performance du troisième type, donnée devant le public du festival C’est dans la vallée.
Rodolphe Burger incarne depuis plus de trente ans une carrière aussi éclectique qu’audacieuse. Guitariste, chanteur et infatigable créateur, il a bâti une œuvre prolifique à travers sa discographie, son label Dernière Bande et la Compagnie Rodolphe Burger, multipliant les collaborations avec des artistes de tous horizons.
Multi-instrumentiste et ingénieur du son formé au CNSM, Julien Perraudeau a cofondé le groupe Diving With Andy avant de devenir un collaborateur recherché, aux côtés d’artistes comme Rodolphe Burger, Jacques Higelin ou Erik Truffaz. À l’aise sur scène comme en studio, il navigue entre pop, rock et musiques expérimentales.
Ensemble, Rodolphe Burger et Julien Perraudeau s’attaquent à un mythe : Radio-Activity de Kraftwerk. Sorti en 1975, cet album marque un tournant dans la grande Histoire de la musique par son utilisation de sons synthétiques et son esthétique futuriste. Des titres comme Autobahn ou Radioactivity ont ainsi fait de Radio-Activity une œuvre fondatrice, influençant des générations d’artistes.
Filmé le 9 octobre au festival C’est dans la vallée, Sainte Marie aux Mines.
