Gleaming from their first live show in the USA, at Tuesday’s KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric, CIAM’s follow-up show at Tangier on Wednesday showcased a litany of intelligent rock songs taken from their album, Anonymous. For a band comprising of London based architects, CIAM thus made sense of it all with a multi-sensual and polished display.
London’s very own visual art rockers, CIAM, performed their first ever American show at KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric on Tuesday. The following evening promised an electric multi-media performance at Los Feliz’s Tangier. CIAM debuted their stomping guitar and electronic violin melodies with a projected dazzling display of images and light by some of Europe’s top photographers and designers. It was a solid set taken from their album, Anonymous. Vocalist, Jeff Shapiro’s dark and brooding lyrics and elegant guitar riffs, took the audience on an eclectic journey from guitar rock to ethereal strings. ‘It Takes a Friend’ crawled into the skin with a haunting melody from violinist, Hadar Goldman. Programmer, Farrell London jabbed hypnotic synth into ‘Here I Am’ and ‘Misunderstood.’
They closed their set with a cover of Velvet Underground’s ‘Venus in Fur;’ an aggressive rendition that rocked the crowd. Drummer, Chris Hall and bassist, Mark Ferguson make up the five-piece of seasoned London architects turned musicians who take their name from the Congress International D’Architecture Moderne; a group architects in 1928 Switzerland whose manifesto promised to advance the cause of “architecture as a social art.” CIAM return to the USA next month for a unique show at MOMA. Catch them if you can.
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