Feist on How She’s Leveling the Playing Field Between Performer and Audience With Experimental ‘Multitudes’ Shows
27.04.2022 - 00:49
/ variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticWhen Feist takes to the stage for four shows over two nights at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium this week, some burning questions may be raised. Like: Where is the stage, exactly? This experimental, very intimate.
limited-run tour — which, like a forthcoming album, is titled “Multitudes” — has the smallish crowd sitting in a circle around her in a space that (seating charts confirm) is clearly not the main, massive, fixed-seat auditorium of the Shrine. Beyond that lie spoilers, which patrons may or may not already be clued into from handfuls of previous gigs Feist has done in the run-up to coming to Los Angeles.
[Warning: some details of the show will be discussed in this article.]What can be said without fear of giving too much away is that Feist has collaborated with designer Rob Sinclair — of David Byrne and “American Utopia” fame — to create a show that plays with the separation between artists and their audiences in all sorts of ways. The singer-songwriter premiered the show in 2021 in Hamburg, then took it to her native Canada, before bringing it to Denver last week, L.A.
April 26-27, Seattle on April 30-May 1 and Stanford for a wrap-up stand May 5-7. After that, Feist will release the “Multitudes” album and most likely follow it with a more traditional show.
But for anyone who appreciates artists playing with the concert form in thoughtful ways, these shows may represent some kind of Canadian-American utopia of their own. Variety spoke with Feist (aka Leslie Feist) via telephone as she prepared to bring the show to Los Angeles, talking not just about the conceptual novelty of the production but the very personal, life-and-death themes of the songs that make up the
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