The Lucerne concert, which was gratefully celebrated by its audience, came out so well because the music didn’t sound nostalgic, i.e. as a ringing capitulation, but casually present. The German literary scholar Klaus Theweleit (“Men’s fantasies”, “The Smile of the Perpetrators”) wrote in an essay about the intensity with which the music burns into a child’s life. But the music in the KKL did not trigger memories of childhood or adolescence, but made the feelings of that time present.
It was like hearing the music not only about who you were, but how you’ve become; and what else you can do with yourself. And then this note on the piano Nick Mason’s band, which included Guy Pratt on bass, Gary Kemp on guitar and vocals, and two other musician friends, played the material powerfully and with passion, citing tracks from albums like Meddle, Atom Heart Mother and the early A Saucerful of Secrets, after which Mason named the band. There were also selected songs from the soundtrack albums “Obscured By Clouds” and “More”, both of which remained underestimated. Probably because they were unlucky enough to have set music to Barbet Schroeder’s failed hippie films.
Cheers broke out in the hall when the crowd heard that one characteristic piano note sound, with which Pink Floyd opened their piece “Echoes” on the second side of the “Meddle” album. This is the piece in which songwriter Roger Waters addresses the themes of his later years, namely egocentricity and empathy, with the line “And I am you and what I see is me”. Nick Mason and his band performed “Echoes” as the last track before the encores, it became the highlight of the evening, a hypnotic performance of majestically beautiful music, with which one knew every note and sang along to every line.
Excerpt Used From Tagesanzeiger
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