Cloud Cult
Metro Chicago 3/10/6
Let me start out by saying that I very rarely blog about something I don’t like. We’re in an age where we are very very lucky with some respects, particularly when it comes to amazing music,art, films, and literature. The reason why I am blogging about Cloud Cult then is that they have an amazing concept and that tells me perhaps they do eventually have the potential to become a great band. At this point, they sound more like an upstate NY jam band, one I worked hard desperately to avoid while living there. So why am I bothering editing through one hundred plus pictures and posting about this band? Well, mainly because I’ve never been to see a band that has people painting on stage during their performance. There were two painters, a man and a woman, who started out with bare and blank canvases and in around a forty minute set created something, sometimes in the rhythm of the music. It was such a neat idea that I was pretty enthralled just watching. Click on more at the bottom to see a step by step progression throughout the set of how the paintings developed (as well as to make the above three pictures larger.) And one more thing…Cloud Cult could be a great band musically if they were to just use the cello, guitar and keyboards. Every time the bass and drums started in the songs went from a dramtically intense start to somehow utterly disapointing. It’s not that the drummer and bassist weren’t talented, either. It’s just that it didn’t really fit with the overall sense of the songs and what was being created. Then again, maybe it’s just not my thing and when the painters came out, I got my hopes up.
Progression of the painting done by the male artist on the right of the stage:
Progression of the painting done by the female artist on the left of the stage:
