Susanne Sundfør’s live recording of her epic audio-visual show of ‘Music For People In Trouble: Live From The Barbican’ is out today through Bella Union / Live Here Now. The album is available as a deluxe limited edition super-heavy Cornflower Blue double Vinyl including B/W fold out collage poster and deluxe CD including B/W fold out collage booklet. Listen and buy here: https://susannesundfor.lnk.to/MFPITLive
Susanne Sundfør’s fifth album ‘Music For People In Trouble’ released in 2017 offered beautiful moments of respite for a world in turmoil and received huge critical acclaim with Mojo calling it “striking”, The Guardian, “another triumph”, the Daily Mirror, “a career defining album of the year contender”, The 405 hailing her as “an icon in the making”, and CMU as “one of the greatest artists of the last decade”.
But what was to follow had critics and audience awestruck once again as Sundfør presented ‘Music For People In Trouble’ in a unique live show which took the intimate power of the album and elevated it to monumental proportion in an immersive audio-visual production. Sundfør played the ‘Music For People In Trouble’ show in just a handful of places across Scandinavia, plus one UK show at The Barbican, London on 21st May 2018, which is where this special recording was made,
“The Music for People in Trouble show at the Barbican was the last of a short and sweet tour, where me and my team of musicians and crew performed the album behind a veil that covered the whole front of the stage. We put videos on the veil, making the stage both a 2D and 3D experience alternating between animation, photography and live video of the performance layered on top of the actual performance. The veil was like a fishnet up close so the audience could easily see the musicians if the screen was blank. I’ve been touring on and off for a decade, and I felt like it was time to try something different with the way I perform my music. I’ve always loved going to the movies, opera, ballet, it sucks you in, it’s a more intense experience because it combines so many different artistic expressions at once, and that’s what I wanted with the Music for People in Trouble show. Unfortunately we didn’t get any good footage of the performance, it lives on in people’s minds, and there’s something unmodern and romantic that I like about that. You can’t google it. You’ll find snippets on Instagram, but it doesn’t reflect the three-dimensional space of the beautiful concert halls we played in. It’s our little secret, our little, intimate moment together, us and the audience. But we got a good quality recording of the music, and that’s something at least.” (Susanne Sundfør)
‘Music For People In Trouble: Live From The Barbican’ tracklist:
| 1.Intro |
| 2. Mantra |
| 3. Reincarnation |
| 4. Good Luck Bad Luck |
| 5. The Sound of War |
| 6. Bedtime Story |
| 7. Undercover |
| 8. No One Believes In Love Anymore |
| 9. The Golden Age |
| 10. Mountaineers |