Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Laetitia Sadier, Adron & Deradoorian at The Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, September 14, 2015


On last night of Too Many Shows, we had to limit ourselves to only one so we found ourselves in the intimate confines of The Drunken Unicorn for sets by LA's Deradoorian, Atlanta's Adron, and France's Laetitia Sadier.  Deradoorian started us off.


We saw Deradoorian earlier this year opening for Zola Jesus and were looking forward to hearing more.  They played about the same set they did before, which was fine as that was exactly what we wanted to hear: a combination of art-rock, tribal drumming, world-music flourishes, occasional chanting, and multi-layered choruses of looped vocals.  It was just as good - if not even better - than the first time and the highlight of our evening.


Bonus points:  Deradoorian have finally released an album - their first - and you can buy it here.


Not that anything that followed was by any means a disappointment, but Deradoorian, wow!

Adron performed next with a new backing band instead of the usual members of Little Tybee we typically see her with, and she seems to have finally found a sympatico drummer who shares her innate sense of tropical nueva bossa nova music.  One of the pleasures of living in Atlanta is getting to hear Adron perform on a fairly regular basis and last night, with a set of mostly new songs (at least to us), she showed how her creativity and artistry are continuing to evolve. 


The headliner and clear audience favorite was Laetitia Sadier.  She's best known for the band Stereolab, and it was pretty clear that most of the audience was appreciative but not familiar with her solo work.  Her compositions don't feature the spacey electronics of Stereolab, but aren't all that different either, for the real pleasure of hearing Stereolab was Sadier's warm, evocative vocals, which are front and center in her solo songs.  


Her set seemed to fly by, and even she seemed surprise when she reached the end of her song list, but we were all charmed by her down-to-earth presence and warm alto voice.


So yes, we missed Thee Oh Sees and Chelsea Wolfe last night, but tant pis - if we had gone to either we would have missed all of this.  

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