It’s time to Canuck n’ Roll as we celebrate Canada Day with a trip through the best of the BBC’s music archives, exploring some of that great nation’s finest music stars.
Rory es un emprendedor ambicioso que trae a su esposa e hijos estadounidenses a su país natal, Inglaterra, para explorar nuevas oportunidades comerciales. Después de abandonar el santuario de su entorno suburbano estadounidense seguro, la familia se sumerge en la desesperación de una Gran Bretaña arcaica de los 80 y su nueva vida inasequible en una casa solariega inglesa amenaza con destruir a la familia.
Kahlil Joseph dirige The Reflektor Tapes, una fascinante inmersión en la creación del álbum Nº1 internacional de Arcade Fire: Reflektor. La película recontextualiza la experiencia del album, transportando al espectador a través de un caleidoscópico, sónico e ilustrado paisaje. La cinta supone un viaje al universo creativo de la banda desde que establecen los cimientos de su álbum en Jamaica, graban en Montreal y tocan de manera improvisada en un hotel haitiano la primera noche de Carnaval, antes de dejar sin aliento a los estadios de Los Ángeles y Londres.
The Arcade Fire’s enigmatic Miroir Noir opens with its most authentic moment: the band faces each other in the middle of an audience and gingerly eases into “Wake Up”. The fans bunch awkwardly around them as Win Butler intones into a ghetto-taped megaphone. Renowned for their sojourns into the crowd, this particular gimmick is usually configured as a populist transgression of the supposed boundary between performer and audience. But this footage shows indie’s high priests seeming uneasy among the faithful, who appear to share the feeling. No species of direct connection is sought. Even in such close quarters, the act of leveling can only be achieved through the conduit of the music.
From the ACL Taping Program on September 14, 2007: Hailed as the "band who helped put Canadian music on the world map" by TIME magazine, experimental indie rock septet Arcade Fire has wowed audiences with its anthemic sound and emotionally-charged lyrics. The band's complex, full sound combines diverse instrumentation with often brooding lyrics that "draw grand lessons from everyday life" (The New York Times).
Arcade Fire performing at the 2016 Voodoo Festival in New Orleans.
Setlist:
1. Ready to Start - 0:30
2. The Suburbs - 5:18
3. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - 11:38
4. Reflektor - 17:24
5. Afterlife - 23:45
6. We Exist - 31:10
7. Normal Person - 36:50
8. Keep the Car Running - 42:05
9. Intervention - 46:30
10. My Body is a Cage - 51:30
11. We Used to Wait - 56:20
12. No Cars Go - 1:01:57
13. Haiti - 1:07:25
14. Snippet of New Song - 1:12:45
15. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - 1:15:10
16. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - 1:20:10
17. Rebellion (Lies) - 1:26:45
18. Here Comes the Night Time - 1:32:40
19. Wake Up - 1:40:45
