Name: Live: Royal Festival Hall
Brand: David Axelrod

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moch003

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CD & DVD

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-04-23

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

David Axelrod

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

a riveting document of david axelrod's surprisingly fresh 90 minute summer 2006 performance at the royal festival hall, one of the very few concerts he has given in the last 25 years, featuring the maestro and 26 piece orchestra playing many never before heard compositions and arrangements. in front of a star-packed and awe-struck audience, axelrod does not disappoint, programing a greatest hits set heavly culled from his late 60s work. richard ashcroft takes the stage unannounced to deliver a vocal of hushed, understated beauty on 'holy are you', axelrod's 1968 composition for the electric prunes. new song 'so low' comes across like some jazz stravinsky reinterpreting duke ellington's oriental suite, and has fans confusedly pondering which lost 70s axelrod classic it's taken from. the rest of the evening settles into a mood of nocturnal, big city transcendence, from the blissful, driving melancholy of cannonball adderley's 'tensity', to the 'holy thursday / urizen' double header from 'song of innoncence', all restless soaring spirit anchored to a hard-eyed jazz-club back-beat. it's safe to say that the record-bag kids have never seen or heard anything like this. despite the standing ovations, there was no encore. extravagant limited edition package includes a remastered audio cd of the concert and poster, plus full annotated booklet.

Live: Royal Festival Hall

Music GB