A muse of absolution...(14/12)

Perhaps they are having the heritage of Thalia, and rather than holding any ivy wreath or drama mask, they play their idyll with guitars and piano...rockabilly...the band amused the waving crowd tonight with a presentation of 'muse-ic'. To me, Muse is having their peak moment in their music career. Their two last albums were the insignia of the contemporary art rock. Indeed Matt is a talented musician and singer and his profound training on classical music and magnificent angel falsetto vocaling offers the group a unique sound of rock in baroque. The trio combination on the stage ignited tremendous energy to the stadium, and this was the momentum when audience achieved a sense of muse. Muse would easily be taken to compare with another trio group Placebo in UK, but I think Muse is more art-rock-originated with the structure of their songs and the affluent music arrangement they compose. The Omnistade was fully occupied tonight at Bercy, and the snapping thunder of their performance drummed the bottom and the top. The stage design was a gorgeous one for this show, and the production of the concert was nicely arranged. It's touching to witness the stadium lighted with audience's lighter fire and fluorescent mobile phones. The video projection was colourful enough to stimulate the visual sense. Imagine that giant balloons fell from the ceiling in the middle of the concert, and it was exactly an echo to the foaming bubble I was following the day before. The band played a few songs of the album of absolution. A conditional reflex is found inside my mind between Absolution and Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore, conscious and unconscious correlation, and sooner or later, a 'Kafka'-style exiling journey matches perfectly with the tunes of Absolution. It was a wonderland. The dreamy effect was magnified with a live performance and improvising. I was too much expected, and so disappointed of the latest black holes & revelations, but indeed all the new songs are very good beats for live performance. It was simply too great.