Lionel Brouet / "The Festival In The Desert" DVD
Wrasse Rec. Lionel Brouet / V.A. :
The Festival In The Desert (MA,rec.2003,pub.2004)**'
This is a one hour documentary of the Touareg festival in 2003. You can see an act of each participant, with some interviews in between, and some images and activity during the building of the stage and awaiting the moment. It surely was a peace-offering and socialising event and of which some of the music worked pretty much this way. Traditions from some areas and tribes were also mixed on stage like some mixed friends did. Also Robert Plant and Justin Adams have participated, although their interpretation of some vague blues connection, performed then clearly from a more introverted shoegze expression, that sound somewhat ou of place to me. Also the Canadian Indian band Blackfire who thought to feel a connection out of respect sounded a bit aggressive and noisy to me, while some of the rhythmic drives of it were adapted well enough. I realise once again how it takes a while to adapt to one another. And one should realise that this connection does not exist from a wishing well meeting point alone. Creative meetings should be a cross-fertilization and from an inspiring shared time while listening to each other, learning skills and ideas, something which rock artists compared to serious world fusion artists never take the time for as if the moment of the crosspoints should have enough to offer. For me they show also a lack of showing any of their own educational level in their performance showing what they could offer as their best, so that in the end their energy of contribution probably would vanish as quickly like wind in the desert. Still it was the meeting place itself that could have given something beyond the moment hopefully. From what happened beyond the music and is able to remain remains beyond view, while the interviews still make us realise this as well.
The pixel quality of the digital camera recording could have been a bit better I think, but still is pretty acceptable on a not too large screen.
There exists a page on Palace Travel that explains what the Festival in The Desert is about, and how to go to it and what to expect, but Google asked the Website that I had to remove it because they considered the link to be inorganic, and therefore inacceptible ??? If you still want to read more about it, please use any search engine to look for the page yourself.. .
