Member NYCECIL writes:
Feist's exquisite, hypnotic voice, aided by three-woman Vermont vocal group, Mountain Man, along with her engaging, effortless charm, playfulness and quick wit, brought all of the new songs alive and improved the older ones to the show I saw last night.
At 35, she is not nothing if inclusive as she continually encouraged the audience to sing along, and dance too, all night long.
“We’re going to bust shit up now okay?,” she said after opening the two-hour, two-encore show on the quiet side with Metals songs, Undiscovered First and How Come You Never Go There.
The song was another Metals tune, A Commotion, and it kicked the show into another gear.
By the next song, I Feel It All, it got pretty crowded up there with another 50 people joining Feist, Mountain Man - often dressed in suede ponchos with bells attached - and pianist-synth player, Brian Lebarton, multi-instrumentalist Charles Spearin and drummer Lucky Paul.
“Grab some wood,” instructed Feist to the now large crowd on stage and they dutifully sat down where they remained for the rest of the show (until they started dancing again.)
“It’s like a kindergarten class up here.”
There was also interesting visual accompaniment, beginning with black and white photos/paintings (not sure which) on the backdrop behind her, but quickly switching over to closeups of Feist and her band members gathered from closeups from cameras placed all around the stage.
Song highlights were plentiful, beginning with the vocally stunning Mushaboom, So Sorry - with Feist playing with the song’s tempo - Honey, Honey, Let It Die (during which she encouraged slow-dancing in the aisles and two of the women from Mountain Man also complied) and Intuition; the stirring new songs Anti-Pioneer, The Bad In Each Other, Caught a Light Wind, Get It Wrong, Get It Right; and the-dance happy My Moon, My Man, I Feel It All, When I Was A Young Girl, and Sea Lion Woman.
When Feist, who alternated between acoustic and electric guitars, dipped into her back catalogue, she made a point about saying she was going back in a time capsule.
I really enjoyed the time I spent with her backstage although she was a bit low key for me. Seeing the show from the back, on the other hand, was F'ing awesome!
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