DIRTY PROJECTORS TO PERFORM AT THE BARBICAN IN LONDON – INCLUDING THE GETTY ADDRESS IN ITS ENTIRETY – 25TH JUNE 2010
Dirty Projectors | 24/03/10
Dirty Projectors come to the Barbican in London for a varied evening of music, on 25th June 2010. They'll play a selection of songs from 2009's celebrated Bitte Orca. They'll also perform their 2005 album The Getty Address in its entirety, back with 20-piece contemporary ensemble Alarm Will Sound.
Bitte Orca, the Projectors' first album for Domino, was a popular and critical smash and year-end list favourite. It came on the heels of the band's collaborations with Björk and David Byrne, who could almost be the band's spiritual godparents - inspiring their innovative marriage of musical eclecticism and true pop sensibility.
The Getty Address is a rapturously strange album, unique in Dirty Projectors' discography in its unsettling mix of jokes, high concept and existential urgency. The story it tells - roughly about a guy named Don Henley who falls in love with a girl named Sacagawea - plays out over heavy sequenced beats, choirs of women and orchestral arrangements that sound as if they've been salvaged from a lost vault of American music. In its European premiere, it will be conducted by Alan Pierson.
The previous two engagements of this program — at Lincoln Center in New York and Disney Hall in Los Angeles — were completely sold out.
For tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/selectseatblock.asp
Review of the LA performance of The Getty Address:
"A bold reminder of Longstreth's background in (and continuing commitment to) experimental art music in all its challenging structural complexity." - Los Angeles Times
Reviews of Bitte Orca:
"Easy on the ear yet mightily complex, warmly empathetic and a kaleidoscope of styles." "8/10" - NME
"Many may not have the patience to follow its somersaults. Those who do will be richly rewarded." "4*" - Q Mag
"A dazzling array of songs that span just about any genre you can name, as well as a few you can’t, because Longstreth has only just invented them." "4*" - Sunday Times
