The organization of the Alma festival estimated last night at 2,900 the number of spectators who gathered in the main square of Poble Espanyol to follow Chris Isaak’s concert. The American began the performance with the theme American boy. A vintage appearance that, at the time of writing this chronicle, had not yet ended, and was enjoying the assembled public, in which the mature staff predominated.
Chris Isaak proposes a healthy immersion in rock and roll of more classic coordinates to its various tributaries. The one in the blue dress with sequins exhibited a more than satisfactory vocal form this Wednesday, during his passage through the Catalan capital. In the second change, the artist, who last month turned a respectable 67 years old, attacked the ballad Somebody’s crying, and then performed Waiting and Don’t leave me on my own walking among the audience that occupied the clue.
On the European tour that ended last night in Barcelona, ??our protagonist has been supported by the four members of Silverstone, his band of almost all his life, which has also accompanied him on television adventures such as The Chris Isaak Show which is issued at the beginning of the century.
The stage delivery shown at the Alma festival by Chris Isaak, as well as his friendliness – he even made a joke of Harry Styles in the greeting address – had positively predisposed the staff from the first second of the gala. However, the first moment of genuine communion between artists and audience did not arrive until a little later, when the melancholic and atmospheric guitar strum sounded, which characterizes Wicked game, the famous theme of 1989 that has penetrated to our landscape both on its own merits and for being part of the soundtrack to David Lynch’s film Corazón salvaje.
Not long after, another significant episode of connection with the audience took place, thanks to the inclusion in the program of the rotunda Oh, pretty woman. Nice memory of Roy Orbison, which I would go back to in the context of an acoustic set Only the lonely. In the version chapter, Elvis Presley (Can’t help falling in love…) also appeared in the repertoire planned for last night, among the stars. All this, with pieces from his own collection such as Blue hotel, Baby did a bad bad thing and San Francisco days, among other gems of the Californian musician.
