2023-08-28 06:00:00
With Australian Carnage – Live at the Sydney Opera House there is now a composite recording of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ performances on December 16, 17 and 18, 2022 Down Under.
„Touring Australia with Warren after so much time away was one of the highlights of recent years. Every show was moving and unforgettable, from the intimacy of playing in theatres and arts centres, to the vast and uplifting nights at Hanging Rock, through to our final three nights at the inimitable Sydney Opera House. We are excited to share these recordings, made at the Sydney Opera House, and hope they capture even a tenth of the collective elation we felt at those shows. We’ll never forget them.” promises Cave and in fact it is open Australian Carnage – Live at the Sydney Opera House The mood that set in was pretty fantastic: the exchange between the audience and the musicians can be heard again and again between the songs, Cave even incites the audience to go crazy with a wink, there’s a hell of a lot of joking and laughing.
And that, although with the two almost completely played albums Carnage and Ghosteen two rather difficult works form the basis of the set list(s), to which, in addition to the sadly musing from the piano, Ellis later accompanied with delirious noise fiddle T. Rex-Cover Cosmic Dancer others too Bad Seeds– Join the classics.
At least in theory. Because practically the material of the encores is missing (like for example Jubilee Street or The Wheeping Song) up to Hollywood and Ghosteen unfortunately even the digital version with its 18 songs completely. Quantitatively still better than if you put the vinyl version on the shelf and can only hear eight live numbers anyway. (By the way, this unnecessary publication is not evaluated here.)
In terms of staging, the reduction succeeds far better when Cave and Ellis in front of drummer Larry Mullins and Radiohead-Man Colin Greenwood and the enchanting robed backing voices Wendi Rose, Janet Ramus and T Jae Cole allow a sparing minimalism to prevail over the full distance, but secretly constantly and subtly embellish it with soulful arrangements and well-dosed string accompaniments – especially the title song of Carnage has never been more sublime than here, while other numbers in the fully occupied Bad Seeds-Klanggewand work even more beautifully than in this rudimentary instrumentation.
In this respect Australian Carnage – Live at the Sydney Opera House then (albeit only in its digital version) also represents a more than just welcome enrichment of the documentation of the creative axis Cave and Ellis; and in view of the reversal that the two have recently made with the Bad Seeds, probably even the end of one with Push the Sky Away started chapter.
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