Thursday, February 16, 2006
Infantjoy live review
The Luminaire, London, 6/2/06
Infantjoy provided spoken words laced over the top of light-headed electronic piano and computer-generated rhythms, creating these haunting soundscapes that did not necessarily teleport you to another physical location, but perhaps to some sort of ghost world that exists in parallel. Speaker Paul Morley commands attention with unbreakable stage presence, maintaining your link with the earthly plain.
I'd not even heard of two-piece "eclectronic" Infantjoy before they opened for Icelandic solo artist Daníel Ágúst (read the review of that gig here). It was only while researching for this review that I discovered the links. A group couldn't just pop up out of nowhere and create a record like this. It was then that I made the link that this Paul Morley was also the musician/writer/artist Paul Morley of Art Of Noise. The chap fiddling with electronic equipment behind him? James Banbury of The Auteurs. Now it made more sense.
And then I was disappointed to discover that the fantastic spoken words proclaimed by Paul Morley from the stage was not on the album. Without the words, it's still beautiful, but you're left adrift without the ethereal anchor to reality provided by Morley's voice.
Written by Greg at LiveOnStage.co.uk
More photos at flickr
Infantjoy provided spoken words laced over the top of light-headed electronic piano and computer-generated rhythms, creating these haunting soundscapes that did not necessarily teleport you to another physical location, but perhaps to some sort of ghost world that exists in parallel. Speaker Paul Morley commands attention with unbreakable stage presence, maintaining your link with the earthly plain.
I'd not even heard of two-piece "eclectronic" Infantjoy before they opened for Icelandic solo artist Daníel Ágúst (read the review of that gig here). It was only while researching for this review that I discovered the links. A group couldn't just pop up out of nowhere and create a record like this. It was then that I made the link that this Paul Morley was also the musician/writer/artist Paul Morley of Art Of Noise. The chap fiddling with electronic equipment behind him? James Banbury of The Auteurs. Now it made more sense.
And then I was disappointed to discover that the fantastic spoken words proclaimed by Paul Morley from the stage was not on the album. Without the words, it's still beautiful, but you're left adrift without the ethereal anchor to reality provided by Morley's voice.
Written by Greg at LiveOnStage.co.uk
More photos at flickr
Infantjoy on iTunes
