Nice! Raul MidonIn some ways the greatest surprise of the weekend was the electrifying diversity of American-Argentinian singer and guitarist Raul Midón (pictured right), who can play a mean jazz guitar, though jazz probably isnt the first genre he would be associated with. He’s perhaps best described as a soul-blues guitarist and singer, and he’s really a one-man band of extravagant virtuosity: as well as the jazz, there are touches of rap, he plays mean percussion, both on a set of stand-mounted Bongos and by tapping on his guitar case, and he can hum or vocalise a very convincing muted trumpet. Being blind, he performs in dark glasses, but the rapport he constructed with an audience he could only hear was instantly warm and engaged. His songs were both funny and touchingly personal, the background to each amusingly anecdotal. The most exciting feature of his performance, however, was his command of all of the genres referenced, and the speed and fluency with which he would blend and switch between them all. An original act in many respects, who’s well worth finding live, if you can. After Inntöne, he took off, and is touring non-stop across Europe, the US and South America for the whole summer, but like many of the weekend’s artists, appears to have no dates in UK. theartsdesk/new-music/theartsdesk-inntöne-jazz-festival
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:10:32 +0000
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