well, there it is..the list of musicians i want to see live is dwindling down slowly but surely. SOKO was one of those artists. i had heard of her a couple years ago (I'll kill her, i will never love you more) and since then i wanted to see her live. her voice is raspy/real. nothing produced about it. which only gets better towards the end of the show no matter how early in the morning it became. along the lines of ida maria without all the problems. in any event i've wanted to see her live and dreams do come true if you wait long enough. she played in what seemed like a makeshift theater turned music venue called bootleg theater. i was hoping for my first taste of moonshine but they only served beer and wine. its small but not crowded. imagine this: philip glass mid to late 60s everyone's trippin and feeling the music. bootleg theater was that kind of place. believe it or not i only had beer. the carne asada burrito before the show was not sitting to well. in any event it was intimate and comfortable. its safe to say probably one of the only places in los(t) angeles that you'll find the pre-spaceland crowd. the two acts before soko had a fantastic show (Chris Garneau, Penelope Fortier) definitely noteworthy. but it all came down to soko. the actress turned singer turned actress turned singer/songwriter was a bit late due to technical difficulties of garneau but it was worth the wait. some new/some old songs well into the next morning. if you couldn't guess the theme of the evening: french infused folk..which is probably one of my favorites of the genres. i've attempted to learn the french language but between the laziness and attention deficit problem probably not going to happen..unless, however, my french friend from paris visits sometime soon it might just happen...wink wink nod nod smile smile. btw soko still waiting for an actual album to be released. i don't know if it was the intimacy of the venue but she was really there w/ her audience. she acknowledged our presence more so than any other artist/band that just says, "thank you for coming out" with no set setlist it was like she was just jamming out with friends and you too were a friend of hers as well...which is refreshing. her songs are like a paul laurence dunbar poem:
"O burning doubt and long regret
O tears with which our eyes are wet,
Heart-throbs, heart-aches, the glut of pain,
The somber cloud, the bitter rain,"
but again thats real.
http://www.myspace.com/mysoko
i just checked and checked again she's playing at the henry fonda theater October 24th. fantastic! more room to enjoy.
enjoy the music.
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