6th Serious Music Event September 26, 2015 - Parktheater, Alphen a/d Rijn (NL) The evening of the absent guitars' - that's the name with which I will remember the evening of September 25th, 2015. On this evening, two bands were scheduled for the Serious MusicEvent at Parktheater in Alphen aan den Rijn: symphonic prog band Traumhaus from Germany, and progressive rocker with a twist Franck Carducci from France, whom we still like to think of as 'from Amsterdam'. Traumhaus
Franck Carducci
The vocal performances of Franck and Mary Reynaud, on Artificial Paradises, Artificial Love, A Brief Tale Of Time and The Last Oddity were spot on - as were the brief front of stage appearances of drummer Nicolas Chonageokoff on backing vocals. Outside these parts, in the instrumentals, Olivier Castan (keyboards), Mathieu and Franck took turns in leading the band. All according to the song structure on the albums of course, but sometimes also playing as if they were making things up as they went along. Maybe they were, after all they had to improvise, as Franck explained when he opened the show bringing the news on Christophe. Both of Franck Carducci's albums have moments that give me goose bumps, and that was no less during this performance. The duets of Franck and Mary in The Last Oddity have that effect, but also the solo vocal of Franck on Mr. Hyde & Dr. Jekyll, or when he sets in Genesis' As Sure as Eggs is Eggs. In a different way, the keyboard leads of Olivier and the lightning fast guitar solos of Mathieu give me shivers, and bare feet drummer Nicolas just manages to keep it all together. All of that was part of the show and in the end it all came together in encore and audience favourite Alice's Eerie Dream. As always, with a special, very visual, sensual and humoristic role for Mary in the role of Alice. I saw a band perform this evening - even more so than in February. And an almost sold out Parktheater saw the same, I think. Angelo Hulshout (edited by Astrid de Ronde) |
Setlist Franck Carducci: Torn Apart Closer To Irreversible Artificial Paradises Mr. Hyde & Dr. Jekyll Artificial Love Achilles intro A Brief Tale Of Time The Last Oddity Supper's Ready (last part) Encore: Alice's Eerie Dream |
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Franck Carducci by Arthur Haggenburg Click on the picture to enlarge. |
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Line up Franck Carducci: (left to right)Mathieu Spaeter: backing vocals and electric guitar Mary 'Alice' Reynaud: percussion, lead and backing vocals Nicolas Chonageokoff: drums, backing vocals Olivier Castan: keyboards and backing vocals Franck Carducci: bass, double neck bass/twelve-string guitar, lead and backing vocals |
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Setlist Traumhaus: Intro/ Das Geheimnis, Teil 1 Das Vermächtnis Wohin Der Wind Dich Trägt Wandler Die Flut/Here Comes The Flood Die Andere Seite Teil 2 Das Geheimnis, Teil 2 |
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Traumhaus by Arthur Haggenburg Click on the picture to enlarge. |
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Line up Traumhaus: (left to right)Tobias Hampl: electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals Till Ottinger: bass, bass pedals and backing vocals Alexander Weyland: lead vocals, keyboard and programming Ray Gattner: drums |
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