The Black Keys at Montreux Jazz Festival, blues -rock purls – Rts.ch

They end the evening by spending vinyls at the Belvedere. Meanwhile, the bar of the end of night artists of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Moreover, In informed. Meanwhile, literate DJs, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney review the history of Soul and American rock, but also French Ye-Yu. Nevertheless, A large musical culture that innervates the repertoire of Keys Blacks. Similarly, their founded group almost twenty-five years ago in Akron, in the state of Ohio and which occurred Thursday evening at the headliner at Montreux Jazz Festival.

On a black keys montreux jazz festival, scene from the lake which reveals the waters of the Lake Geneva in the setting sun ajar. the American tandem begins its concert to the floor. Dan Auerbach on vocals and guitars quickly solicit Patrick Carney who sits into a leopard shirt on drums. The two companions flourish on a frame of infernal blues-rock. continue without malling “Thickfreakness”, “The Breaks” and “i’ll be your man” in front of a wall of amplifiers.

After these presentations. the duo is joined and reinforced by a keyboard, a guitarist, a bass player and a percussionist for a “you touch” as brief as compact. We then say that these instrumental reinforcements will allow the Black Keys to be more nuanced in the evocation of their blues-rock roots. melodic pop efficiency. But on the contrary. the repertoire of around twenty titles purrs quickly, photocopiating its rhythmic structures between tensions and rhythmic suspensions to the epilogue composed black keys montreux jazz festival, of “Little Black Sub” and “Lonely Boy”, absolute and massive tube vintage 2011 which had propelled them into another rock stratosphere but which does not take on the hoped for Montreux.

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Lack of nuances

We reiterate as soon as The Black Keys did not manage to really reinvent himself and that the weight of five Grammy Awards, of the more than 10 million albums sold, continues to weigh on their creativity. Even “fever”. Hit black keys montreux jazz festival, of 2014 in principle irresistible from their album “Turn Blue”, does not take the harsh incandescence of vintage blues-rock and turns into a flat hymn.

Between a compact beginning. a more nuanced end that includes, among other things, the cover of “On The Road Again” by Canned Heat, the most pop “No Rain, No Flowers”, the Soul-Rock setbacks of “Howlin ‘For You” and Rock Sinuosities of “She’s Long Gone” stuffed with guitar patterns, The Black Keys will have too much damaged and unknown Blues-rock too calibrated.

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Olivier Horner