7:30 p.m. is not the time to see one of the main claims of MIRA 2024 live, Kim Gordon. Most of the audience does not arrive at the festival until a few hours later, missing the presentation of ‘The Collective’, the peculiar second solo album by the founder of Sonic Youth, which has just been nominated for a Grammy.
Gordon, one of the coolest people on the planet, hierically presents the repertoire of an album that calmly surpasses the limits of trap and grunge, bringing to MIRA that rare rock show that is not just rock. Gordon is still clinging to the electric guitar as in the days of Sonic Youth but, this time, the distorted beats of her album sweep the stage.
The show doesn’t finish taking off Robin Foxfocused on distilled and pure electronics, extreme and minimalist. The synchronization of music and laser lights is attractive, but the music never finds its direction and remains an abstract improvisation that does not grow. The beginning is dense, with deep bass that requires protecting your ears, and, although Robin progressively adds textures and rhythms, the show ends up becoming bland.
The proposal of Rafael Toral It’s different. The appearance of the image of a little bird on the screen of the DICE stage (like the one on the cover of their album ‘Spectral Evolution’) disorients the audience at the beginning, and what follows is a show of pure bright and shiny ambient music. Toral, sitting playing his electric guitar, floods the environment with his deep tones, filling the darkness with light.
After 10:00 p.m. the big attraction of the day emerges on stage, AG Cookwhich presents its particular ‘Britpop’, lifting the audience with its pounding hyperpop beats. Sometimes the PC Music texture is lost in favor of a pure, clinical design, but the beats are so powerful they would lift a dead person. Of course, Charli xcx’s voice emerges several times throughout the show, but it is the entry of ‘Club Classics’, in its original version, that takes the audience into total euphoria.
Since the presentation of British Murder Boysfocused on elegant and dark techno, MIRA enters its final phase. Above all, the different meanings of the word “techno” have a place during the night, but they are the acid textures of People You May Know those that introduce the public into a trance with no way out. Then the angry, twisted rhythms of Toccororo They take the attendees to hell. A hypnotic remix of ‘Eusexua’ by FKA twigs is dropped at the closing of MIRA Festival.
