Bilbao Concert Review 27-June-06

VAN MORRISON - Bilbao
With 40 years of a shining race to its backs, Leon de Belfast, one of the most excellent figures of contemporary music, returned to Bilbao. After the good experience of the last year, Van Morrison requested to again touch in the Euskalduna Audience two nights followed. The concert was on the verge of beginning and the public was warned so that photos did not remove and jumped some flash, since Mr. Morrison could stop the concert if the case occurred. The performance began without Van Morrison in the scene, with a song that the guitarist sang Ned Edwards. Finalized this small introduction, Leon de Belfast appeared slightly in the scene between applause, cojeando by a slight accident that had suffered. After this beginning the brilliant “Magic Time” arrived, submerging to there the present ones in the lírico universe of the Irish. The wood change gave taking it the harmonic to interpret “Dead or Alive”, of style skiffle, folk with blues influences and jazz of which it gave good account in a direct engraving in Belfast in 1998 next to the Lonnie Donegan, king of this musical style. After a quarrel to the musicians, to whom it does not pardon the failures, it requested a slower rate to them to interpret with subtility a simple and calm blues like “Too Many Myths”. The musicians responded perfectly, but when finalizing the complaint was the sound technician ago, that did not know to improvise before a song that was not in the repertoire. And it is that Van Morrison list” in its concerts does not repeat “Seth. It has certain more or less fixed songs and other so many alternatives, although always which finish including are not in that list. Something to the height of very few musicians. Country of “Your Cheatin Heart” gave to passage to a calm “Days Like This” and to the blues of “Choppin´ Wood”. And The arrived “In Midnight”, one of those songs which they create a little while special, that remembers to a dance taken hold in an empty bar, to an eternal hug.
The change of rate came with honky tonk from Hank Williams “My Bucket´s got to hole in it”, that put the public to give palms enjoying as if it was in an American bar of highway. She continued with country of “There Stands The Glass”, one of the best subjects of his last disc. Arriving at the equator of the concert, Van Morrison takes saxo. They sound first notes and people begin to applaud when recognizing “Moondance”. By often that has never touched it he is equal this song. The talentosas variations and improvisations of jazz cause that he is special in each concert. To half of song the Irish genius disappears of the scene giving protagonism to its musicians, who touch small single each one of them as a presentation. That yes, at the end of the song the singer is received between warm applause when returning to the scene. Great songs like “Big Blue Diamonds” follow one another, an exceptional ballad country, or the blues “Foggy Mountain”, in which it asks smoothness his musicians to create in a while concrete an atmosphere different from the own song. Mr. Morrison knows what wants at every moment and does all the possible one so that the things sound so perfect and special as he has them in mind. The public recognizes the mythical “Tupelo Honey” and he cannot repress the enthusiasm and the emotion that this song with Irish airs to the purest Van style produces Morrison. On the other hand, the applause does not confuse to the one of Belfast, that does not lose eye to any of the musicians in the interpretation of “Playhouse”. In a little usual gesture one goes to the public requesting to him that it gives palms in the animated “Precious Time”. People on the other hand respond quickly, transmitting more joy if she fits to this song. And one arrives from the momentazos of the concert. The clocks are stopped, for the world and blows one's nose “to I can´t stop loving you”. They give desire to dance fight, of which that moment lasts for always. The emotividad of Van Morrison is in its voice, does not need artifices nor “show”, it is enough and it is exceeded to put to us in his songs and to make us fly. The choir that accompanies it shines to capella and later the song is winning in intensity until bursting with the applause of the public. Indescriptible. Without time to breathe “Brown Eyed Girl” begins, without a doubt the most well-known song of Van Morrison and excellent finishing touch for a shining concert. During the song even there is a little while graceful when he presents/displays to the guitarist Ned Edwards, to which this one responds presenting/displaying Mr. Van Morrison and thus the mutual presentation follows one another a few times, starting the smile of the there present ones. Intense the 90 minutes of concert concluded between sonorous applause. Music and interpretation of Maxima quality, in a while in which what prime it is the pose and the image.