By Guest Writer Adam Yasmin
Close your eyes and picture yourself sitting in a sold out amphitheater with 7,700 uniquely individualistic screaming fans. Some of them have been waiting several years since her last performance at the Hollywood Bowl, while others are still buzzing from Coachella Festival earlier this year.
On stage, a vast array of colors to be seen, with wondrous electronics, and various flags hung. Regardless of race, ethnicity, or sexual preference, everyone knows that Bjork delivers a performance well worth the wait. She chose to start the evening off with some of her emotional ballads, surrounded by her 10-peice all girl Icelandic brass section and keyboardist, in a very intimate setting.
Soon to follow, the rest of her band (2 electronic wizards and a drummer) ran onstage to commence a very heartfelt version of “Joga”, which is off the album Homogenic. A few songs later, the b-side “Who Is It” was delightfully executed, along with songs off of her new record, Volta. “Earth Intruders” was blazing with pyrotechnics, followed by the darkly operatic, “Army of Me”. Closing the set, “Hyperballad” meshed in with “Pluto”, was powered by the secret weapon in her arsenal of gadgets, the reactable, which was just invented by a team of musicians/engineers in Barcelona, Spain in 2004 (check out more in the reactable here).
The encore was an intimate version of “Oceania”, off of Medulla, followed by the new anthem for 2008, “Declare Independence”, which was enough to make the entire venue transform into a spontaneous rave. Overall, the performance was incredibly dynamic, ranging from very somber and stripped down, to rigid and technical. It was held at the newly opened, Nokia Theatre in Downtown. Being that I am a recent fan, this show was only my second to date, but one of many to come.
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