Bringing together the best of old and new, the Scottish band takes the crowd on a lively tour through three decades of music.
MUSIC: Brett Dean and Stefanie Farrands perform with ANAMTo attend a Belle and Sebastian concert is to go back in time. It’s the late ’90s or early 2000s, and searching bookstores and libraries for something to love, you spot a pleasant-looking album and take it home. You pop it into the CD player and let the warmth spill out, that striped sunlight sound painting colour into your monochrome life.
It’s a blessing and a curse, but so is growing up. The precious naivete of some of the group’s earliest songs is lost in their polished performances now, but the joy remains palpable. Blooming to a nine-piece live, including a couple of local musicians, the band – led by the affable, chatty Stuart Murdoch – is a well-oiled machine, with splashes of occasional chaos. Unlike many touring bands, they don’t have a standard set list – each night is different, and anything could happen.
Plunging headlong into Dean’s often complex sound world, ANAM’s sizeable string band gave the Australian premiere of his 2016 triptych, which pays tribute to lost friends and colleagues. Drawing out the subtleties of string timbre and texture, Dean evoked the different personalities of his subjects; most notably the British conductor Richard Hickox in the monumental, elegiac finale.
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