I've Seen It All

Saw Bjork last night at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. With an awesome harp player. And the wonderful craziness that is Matmos. And a funky choir of Inuit girls from Greenland. Oh yeah, and a 50+ piece goddamned orchestra. It was…good.

Matmos is a band that makes more interesting sounds than they make good music, in my opinion. Using a balloon as a drum. Plucking and bowing on their old hamster’s cage, as a tribute to said ex-hamster. They have an entire CD of surgical sounds called “A Chance to Cut is A Chance to Cure.” They opened, and were far more enjoyable than I expected.

But I didn’t go to see Matmos.

Bjork is someone that most people either love or hate. I can understand why those that hate her do so, but I feel sorry for those people. It must be sad to not love her work. To not have such warm music to rely on. But anyways this was not an electronica performance. This was essentially “An Evening with Bjork.” There was an intermission. I think that is incredibly stylish. We had wonderful seats, and got to witness something incredibly rare. I’m still beaming.

So if you ever get to see one of your favorite artists with an orchestra, I recommend it. It’s so choice.

Oh yeah, no one will probably care, but on the way to the venue we drove by LA’s Pershing Square. I have never been there, and I only know it from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 previews. Suffice to say, it is very very surreal to drive by a videogame level.

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