It is now twenty past one and I have just had breakfast! I woke up late, we had a couple of parties after the show last night at United Palace Theatre. And boy, did we have a good time! The crowd seemed unusually enthusiastic, and I also think all of us are relaxing more and more into the performance. At least, that applies to me.
The show was webcast to some four millions I understand. I wasn´t that nervous though. Maybe at the beginning, because Björk had the wild idea of starting with Cover Me, with the curtains drawn and only me being visible on stage.
A few words about Cover Me in the version we performed last night:
Soon after Björk called me in October to propose the tour to me, she sent me a few songs she thought just the two of us might perform at the shows. One of them was Cover Me, and she sent three different versions of it to me. One of them is on the album Post, another one is the Brodsky Quartet version, and the third one is for a dulcimer decorated with electronic sounds. At the end there is a bit from La Nativité Du Seigneur by Messiaen, a composer Björk adores.
I wanted to create the fourth version of Cover Me, but keep the excerpt from the Messiaen piece at the end, because we both thought it would be highly effective in a concert. I therefore composed an accompaniment to Björk’s singing in a kind of a Messiaen style, so that the organ solo at the close of the song would sound more plausible than in the earlier version. The trick was to not go too far in that direction, because the actual melody is so simple, just in a minor/E major.
Anyway, in the final chord of Cover Me, the curtains fell away and Earth Intruders started. The audience seemed to love it.
We had the same guests as at the last show. They performed admirably.
And now I’m going to take a walk around New York. The sun is shining and it looks like a great day ahead!
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