Concert(s): Numoonfest 2007
General Info
Festival: NuMoonFest
Location: Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam
When: 13-15 December 2007
What’s it about?
Well, read about the festival here. It’s an interesting combo of different styles of jazz, electronic music, etc. and also movie documentaries. It’s my second visit, read my review of last year’s experience here. I’m a bit late with this review so my recollection might be a bit hazy, sorry..
Day 3 (15-Dec)
So remember, you never know what to expect on this festival and this year’s shows were diverse as ever. First off, a not so interesting performance at the cafe podium from Haale. The stuff didn’t work for me, oh well.
After that we got a very big black guy accompanied by guitar and accordion/squeeze-box, singing this incredible falsetto, which was nice. Picked up the closing fifteen minutes from Reboot Your Soul, a Dutch jazzy band fronted by Rob Van Der Wouw. Not bad, saw them this summer at the North Sea Jazz festival, the contrast was noticeable: the crowd was about a tenth of what was at NSJ, but they carried on as good as they could.
In the same hall we were treated by the good people of the Silent Disco. If ever you get a chance to see and hear this event, please do try it out!! It’s an simple concept but a bit hard to explain: everybody get headphones to listen to what the DJ is playing. Imagine a crowd with headphones on dancing to something you’re not hearing and having some wicked fun!
Back to the festival, in the main hall the Numoonlab Orchestra was performing an incredible set. The core band played from beginning to end during the whole evening and other performers would come up and do their thing and then move off.
For me the high point was the enigmatic and energetic and weirder than weird miss Ursula Rucker. She did her poetry like a fierce lioness, wow!!
Conclusion
With this year’s edition there were too many uninteresting performances and quite some main stream stuff too. But the Numoonlab Orchestra was an incredible experience! Miss Rucker was the wacky cherry on top!! I’ll be there next year, because it’s a chance to discover stuff..
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