Saal 1 during michelbergermusic.com FILMED by Aelred Nils, Colin Solal Cardo, Ilan Cohen, Marta Fernandez / EDIT Melissa Sadouni PRODUCER petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com, blogotheque.net
the variations of the sax across different live performances makes this a different experience each time. this one makes me think "im anxious but eventually everything will be groovy"
@@RobertSlover You're everything I want to be and more. Your deep understanding and critical thinking are genius level. Everyone should take example from what you teach by living through you. Thank you.
abhijeet baliga agreed and I swear sax is one of the most pwerful instruments ever invented. It's almost shook me to to my core and loosened me up no matter how locked up I get.
The "Messina" is such a magical miracle wonder machine that makes one thing sound like many things at the same time in a beautiful unpredictable way. Please roll it out as a plug-in already!
it's actually not a plug in, the Messina is the live version of the prismizer which was made by Francis and the lights and he explained that the Messina and the prismizer are achieved by using specific settings and options in the Antares harmony engine. You can find the tweet in the bon iver reddit
@@somethinglike229 I think Tom just means that they should try to remake it into a plug-in so it's more widely available. I mean damn, that would be cool!
The Messina does not use Antares Harmony Engine. It was simply inspired by the Prismizer. It’s actually the MIDIHARM setting on Eventide effect processors + Antares auto-tune.
The signature sound of Bon Iver. It is twistedly beautiful and so unperfectly perfect in everyway...much like each one of us. That is why I think it has an appeal to me. Justin seems so willing to open himself up through exploration and vulnerability.
I was there. It - the whole Michel Berger Music festival - was the best musical experience I've ever had.. The whole setup of the festival was just amazing..
CS IHDA i wouldn't say that we are lucky the complete European tour was cancelled and I am still heartbroken about it even more so since I considered going to this festival but decided not to because of the announcement of the European tour.
@@icecreammmmman1991 no. it absolutely is not. reverb, delay, etc does not alter the pitch in a way to mimic a melodic line. autotune is cheating period.
Pretty sure Justin Vernon can sing just fine without "autotune" and therefore doesn't need to cheat. He's using it as an effect, not because he can't hit the notes. The purpose of the Messina is to allow the user to harmonize a single input in real time. That's not "cheating," it's engineering ingenuity that expands the possibilities of music. You don't like the way it sounds, that's cool - some people don't like it.
@@icecreammmmman1991 its not auto harmonizing that would be cool it alters the melodic line being "sung" its not about subjective taste its objectively obvious. there's a reason shallow modern pop music uses it. justin vernon first record "for emma forever ago" was as stripped down as possible thats what makes it great and will last the test of time.
This guy is the best sax player I have ever heard. There is another live performance by him with Bon Iver which is even better than this...he really lets rip and blows your head apart....looking for it now [edit - found it...Michicant at the Sydney Opera House - arguably one of the best sax performances in human history...I wish I could have been there to witness it live].
I’ve downloaded as many full length Bon Iver concerts as I can find and add them to my playlists. As homed and crafted and perfect as his albums are, it’s amazing to hear them get even better played live.
I would lie if I said i didn't feel quite lucky and privileged to have seen a very similar version of this piece performed along with Aaron and Bryce Dessner upfront and live at Haven Festival. Pure magic.
i dreamt of small a village, of me sleeping therein in a hut, and of the horseback militia falling downhill towards that village, and the family of wolves howling at their lanterns. My lady, my dearest, lifts the curtain with a knowing smile, to let me know, that we've been here before, that she wants nothing more than a good fight. I asked her who they were, who these forces lighting up the night were, and she sang back, like a hunter whose trap was full: 'Muss-a-been Forces'. and we howled uphill like steam.
i like when justin uses the vocoder but i like his raw voice so much more. i wish he couldve ditched it for this song. not hating! new bon iver is the best bon iver!
the saxophone is miked up and going into a harmonizer which justin is controlling using midi from his keyboard (someone correct me if i'm wrong this is how i achieve a similar effect)
He plays harmonies over the sax track with a self made modification for the autotune plug in called the Messina which was created by his sound engineer Chris Messina together with Vernon. It allows Justin to control the harmonies pretty much free of latency.
Song of the day 08.09.2017/ this time i merely overstayed my welcome, the burghers could no longer hold their breaths, grew weary of the constant racketing of my 'getting ready'. "A fool, despite all his other faults, has this too: he's always getting ready to live."----perhaps i'm especially such a fool, in that I'm always getting ready to leave----and then never arrive. Well, I'm here. And as the good song goes, THERE'S NO LEAVING NOW.
Not sure about the drums at the climax of the song kinda fuxs with my mental vision o the song if that makes any sense.. Or it's not the direction in tone I'd like for I to take at that time NO HATE THOUGH JUSTIN VERNON IS PROBABLY THE BES SINGER SONGWRITER DOIN IT NOW
I get the appeal of improvising or providing a 'unique' experience of the song for a live show, but Bon Iver really really strays far from the studio version in almost every live show I've seen on youtube... like he is incapable of performing a song live in the way it sounds on the album. Kinda disappointing.
Nobody would see live shows if it weren't for the album... people go to see an artist live because they liked the music they bought from them... I'm not saying he should perform "exact copies" but in all the live shows I've seen of his most recent album, they aren't even close... and they don't even sound as good, they're just mostly weak improvisational versions. Like this one or the Blogotheque version of 8 (circle)... I couldn't even finish that version, it was just garbage.
I disagree.. seeing bon iver live, as I have done, is an experience rather than just a live performance of their studio work. Justin and the band create raw, spontaneous emotion with an incredible atmosphere! The pure silence and engagement from the audience is incredible and moving. Only achieved by performing like this in my opinion. However, i do love the banjo style on the studio version of this track!
I think it's just a case by case thing. I agree with you on that 8 Circle version not being up to album snuff, but i could also link like 10 videos of them performing songs live at a level much higher than the album. For example, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OOGnPsSikEQ.html
Apollonian Germ I think music should be the other way around. Live performance is so much more of an intimate and amazing experience than listening to a record. I really hope I get to see these guys live someday!
rob slover sorry rob but he’s not using auto tune to fix his voice or anything. I hate it for that, he’s using it as an instrument-like it’s a synth or talkbox. Not everyone’s favorite but certainly not a disqualification for musicianship
