The organization of the Alma festival estimated this Wednesday night at 2,900 the number of spectators who gathered in the main square of Poble Espanyol to follow the Chris Isaak concert. The American had started his performance with the theme American boy. An appearance with vintage tones that, at the time of writing this chronicle, had not yet finished, and was delighting the assembled public, in which the older staff predominated.
Chris Isaak proposes a healthy immersion in rock and roll with more classic coordinates, in its various tributaries. The one in the blue suit with sequins exhibited this Wednesday, as he passed through the Catalan capital, a more than satisfactory vocal form. At the second change, the artist, who turned a respectable 67 years old last month, attacked the ballad Somebody’s crying, to immediately perform Waiting and Don’t leave me on my own walking among the public that occupied the dance floor.
On the European tour that ended this Wednesday in Barcelona, ??our protagonist was supported by the four members of Silverstone, his band of almost all his life, who have also accompanied him on television adventures such as The Chris Isaak Show that aired at the beginning of century.
The scenic delivery shown at the Alma festival by Chris Isaak, as well as his sympathy –he even joked at the expense of Harry Styles in his greeting speech– had positively predisposed the staff from the first second of the gala. Even so, the first moment of authentic communion between artists and public did not come until a little later, when the melancholic and atmospheric guitar riffs that characterize Wicked game, the very famous 1989 song that has penetrated our landscape for both merits and their own, as well as the fact that they are part of the soundtrack of David Lynch’s Corazón salvaje.
Not long after, another significant episode of audience connection would take place, thanks to the inclusion of the resounding Oh, pretty woman on the show. A nice memory of Roy Orbison, whom he would come back to basting in the context of an Only the lonely acoustic set. In the versions chapter, he was also included in the repertoire scheduled for this Wednesday, among more stars, Elvis Presley (Can’t help falling in love…). All this, together with pieces of his own harvest such as Blue hotel, Baby did a bad bad thing, or San Francisco days, among other gems of the Californian musician.
