DIAGONAL - ROADBURN LIVE 2008 - CD

New Store Stock
About this Item

The item format is a CD
This specific sale is a new release, shipped direct from the manufacturer
The Artist Name is DIAGONAL
The Title is ROADBURN LIVE 2008

Condition New

Other Comments
New Store Stock

The Media Condition is New

This is new and unplayed

The Sleeve Condition is New

New unplayed

Product Description -

The sheer power of Diagonal’s live performances in their first incarnation has become the stuff of legends.  Their celebrated self-titled 2008 debut captured much of this spirit—a super-human rhythm section on which danced a heady brew of organ, sax, synth and twin guitars—but there was nothing quite like being at one of their shows.

Their performance at the Roadburn Festival in April 2008 was Diagonal at their very finest. Finally gaining a release, fourteen years later, the recording is evidence of a young band, hungry and willing to take risks.  Their classic set-list opener ‘Semi-Permeable Menbrain’ is much wilder than the studio version, the band stretching out and loosening up with a fiery rendition that melds into the initial dreamscape of ‘Child of the Thundercloud’, whose intricacies can’t obscure its epic power.  The non-album ‘Heavy Language’ and ‘Canon Misfire’ represent the core of the set: explosive, Nucleus-like jazz-rock workouts that positively smoulder in their intensity.  The closer ‘Pact’ lost none of its majesty on stage, with a euphoric chorale coda that would have made Pompeii-era Pink Floyd proud.

Diagonal continue to make vibrant and intriguing records (lately, Arc and 4) which demonstrate an undimmed ability to fuse structure and improvisation, studiousness and the wild.  This release captures a particular moment in their trajectory when, as a gigging band, they were honing their live experience. 

Part of the magic of Diagonal in this period is how they integrated seven different musicians and their voices into such a coherent sound.  Indeed that is a major part of the appeal.  Call it progressive rock but what we have here is an audacious combination of deep, pounding funk from the rhythm section twin guitars that are crisp and stately when not spinning away into wild solos a positively vicious sounding Farfisa organ and sax and synth that provide a spacey and textured frosting.  That this is topped off by vocals from Alex Crispin that are as soulful and passionate as any sixties R & B group demonstrates further the singular and unique voice of Diagonal in 2008.

The Tracks of this item include:
1. Semi Permeable Menbrain / Child Of The Thundercloud (20:10)
2. Heavy Language (6:42)
3. Cannon Misfire (5:06)
4. Pact (10:53)


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Location ID 72z

iHaveit SKU ID 154167811

Unique Reference Number 2794898055