Darkside @ Primavera Sound 2023 /06 /01

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NEW MOON
New Moon by Children of the Light
An imposing circular mirror broken into fifteen moving pieces takes central stage in Children of the Light’s renewed collaboration with American band Darkside. Light projected onto the fractured mirror glows in clouds of smoke and beams over the exuberant crowd, hiding and revealing the surrounding space, immersing musicians and audience alike in a mesmerising play of irradiative dimensions. Children of the Light are literally pulling strings live on stage to move the mirror’s pieces and transform it into an immense, abstract map of the world. Reflecting loss, shattered illusions and communities drifting apart, New Moon simultaneously celebrates new beginnings and the beauty of imperfection. As the separate pieces are slowly realigned into a circle, the work conveys a sense of catharsis or healing, a liberating realisation that different perspectives don’t need to be absorbed into a universal ideal. For the duration of the concert, the audience can transcend their differences in a shared experience induced by Darkside’s captivating music and the exhilarating, spiritual spectacle of New Moon.
In various ways, New Moon is picking up the pieces of Mirror Moon, the felicitous result of Children of the Light’s very first collaboration. They created it in 2012 as an experimental stage design and scenography for Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harington’s Darkside, who subsequently toured the world with it. At the final concert in 2014, Harrington smashed the mirror, an image gaining in relevance right up to today. The pieces were collected by a fan who sold them online, and Mirror Moon was dispersed across the globe. Children of the Light took this as the starting point for their set design for Darkside’s new tour. The mirror of New Moon, three metres in diameter, seems to have been hit by lightning, but when the jagged fragments start drifting apart, they become like broken pieces of porcelain, mended by a golden glow in the Japanese tradition of kintsugi.
For Darkside too, touring again is much like a new beginning. After the last show in 2014, Jaar and Harrington hadn’t performed live together until the memorable kick-off at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in September 2022, where New Moon had its debut. On May 17, the European leg of the tour starts in Lyon, with Children of the Light. Their physical presence on stage adds a performative quality to New Moon that emphasises its autonomous character. Even as Children of the Light move about as anonymous, near-invisible stagehands dressed in black, their scenography no longer functions as a support for the main act: it has become an artform in its own right. Both the band and Children of the Light have come full circle. As the light from behind the mirror starts to burst through the cracks, it is like an irresistible force breaking free, an endless source of energy, the scattering of matter into a newly forming universe.
Tour Schedule of Darkside & Children of the Light*
May 17 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 18 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 19 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 20 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 26 - Marseille, France - Le Bon Air Festival**
May 27 - Marseille, France - Le Bon Air Festival**
May 28 - Marseille, France - Le Bon Air Festival**
June 1 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
June 3 - Paris, France - We Love Green
June 5 - Paris, France - Trianon
June 6 - Paris, France - Trianon
June 8 - Madrid, Spain - Primavera Sound
June 9 - Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound
June 11 - Toulouse, France - Bikini**
June 12 - Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks**
June 14 - Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royale
June 16 - Manchester, UK - New Century Hall
June 18 - London, UK - Koko
June 19 - London, UK - Koko
*
Dates are liable to change, some concerts have already sold out and more will follow;
check www.darksidetheband.com
for updates on the tour schedule
**
Concerts without live scenography by Children of the Light

[@ElArranzio]

què és això que penja i que mouen amb cables?

[@rawlg]

New Moon...
la resposta detallada la trobaràs aquí : www.children-of-the-light.com/projects/new-moon

[@rawlg]

NEW MOON
Darkside New Moon by Children of the Light
An imposing circular mirror broken into fifteen moving pieces takes central stage in Children of the Light’s renewed collaboration with American band Darkside. Light projected onto the fractured mirror glows in clouds of smoke and beams over the exuberant crowd, hiding and revealing the surrounding space, immersing musicians and audience alike in a mesmerising play of irradiative dimensions. Children of the Light are literally pulling strings live on stage to move the mirror’s pieces and transform it into an immense, abstract map of the world. Reflecting loss, shattered illusions and communities drifting apart, New Moon simultaneously celebrates new beginnings and the beauty of imperfection. As the separate pieces are slowly realigned into a circle, the work conveys a sense of catharsis or healing, a liberating realisation that different perspectives don’t need to be absorbed into a universal ideal. For the duration of the concert, the audience can transcend their differences in a shared experience induced by Darkside’s captivating music and the exhilarating, spiritual spectacle of New Moon.
In various ways, New Moon is picking up the pieces of Mirror Moon, the felicitous result of Children of the Light’s very first collaboration. They created it in 2012 as an experimental stage design and scenography for Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harington’s Darkside, who subsequently toured the world with it. At the final concert in 2014, Harrington smashed the mirror, an image gaining in relevance right up to today. The pieces were collected by a fan who sold them online, and Mirror Moon was dispersed across the globe. Children of the Light took this as the starting point for their set design for Darkside’s new tour. The mirror of New Moon, three metres in diameter, seems to have been hit by lightning, but when the jagged fragments start drifting apart, they become like broken pieces of porcelain, mended by a golden glow in the Japanese tradition of kintsugi.
For Darkside too, touring again is much like a new beginning. After the last show in 2014, Jaar and Harrington hadn’t performed live together until the memorable kick-off at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in September 2022, where New Moon had its debut. On May 17, the European leg of the tour starts in Lyon, with Children of the Light. Their physical presence on stage adds a performative quality to New Moon that emphasises its autonomous character. Even as Children of the Light move about as anonymous, near-invisible stagehands dressed in black, their scenography no longer functions as a support for the main act: it has become an artform in its own right. Both the band and Children of the Light have come full circle. As the light from behind the mirror starts to burst through the cracks, it is like an irresistible force breaking free, an endless source of energy, the scattering of matter into a newly forming universe.
Tour Schedule of Darkside & Children of the Light*
May 17 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 18 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 19 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 20 - Lyon, France - Nuits Sonores Festival
May 26 - Marseille, France - Le Bon Air Festival**
May 27 - Marseille, France - Le Bon Air Festival**
May 28 - Marseille, France - Le Bon Air Festival**
June 1 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
June 3 - Paris, France - We Love Green
June 5 - Paris, France - Trianon
June 6 - Paris, France - Trianon
June 8 - Madrid, Spain - Primavera Sound
June 9 - Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound
June 11 - Toulouse, France - Bikini**
June 12 - Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks**
June 14 - Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royale
June 16 - Manchester, UK - New Century Hall
June 18 - London, UK - Koko
June 19 - London, UK - Koko
*
Dates are liable to change, some concerts have already sold out and more will follow;
check www.darksidetheband.com for updates on the tour schedule
**
Concerts without live scenography by Children of the Light

[@heleneramos889]

A night to be so upper highly
alive!!!

[@rawlg]

♥️

[@lua3086]

omg thank you so much for capturing this

[@rawlg]

❤️

[@juventinidoc18]

Best live ever

[@chimewallace]

Merci per pujar-ho, vaig alucinar amb ells!

[@rawlg]

♥️

[@johnjay6502]

Epic set, thanks for recording!

[@rawlg]

Thanks for the feedback! One of the most artistic proposals of the festival, without a doubt.

[@lua3086]

@@rawlg hands down this was the best show for me this year

[@sanfordcurtis8242]

Saw them in Manchester last night. They did an amazing job and I almost started hallucinating from the strobe lights

[@henrydobson9419]

Man same thing in London! Was one of the best shows of my life

[@sanfordcurtis8242]

@@henrydobson9419 I was lucky to be on the front row near the band and all the lights. I was confused at first when Darkside walked on because I thought it was Zane Lowe and Simply Red 😂

[@roblmcd]

Wonderful capture and performance, thank you for the upload. Cheers from Florida.

[@rawlg]

❤

[@rawlg]

Thanks! I also uploaded the other concert from the previous day when they performed at Sala Apolo La(2)
th-cam.com/video/xVnYgqCPhRI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IxM35OhlwWC1sDL-

[@ElArranzio]

això en directe seria fantàstic

[@rawlg]

❤

[@moseslai7083]

I was there

[@juventinidoc18]

IL MIO PSICOLOGO DOVREBBE PAGARTI PER AVER REGISTRATO TUTTO IL FOTTUTO CONCERTO

[@rawlg]

❤️

[@heleneramos889]

Bbd