Aldous Harding live at Hana-Bi, Ravenna – August 22nd 2017
Aldous Harding at Hana-Bi
The striking stage presence and breathtaking vocal dexterity of New Zealand’s Aldous Harding is a thrill to behold.
The assured body language and the way she makes eye contact with members of the audience is in equal measures flirty and defiant. She is warm and genial between songs but then is like a woman possessed while singing. The focus and feeling this generated gave me goosebumps.
Her one hour set,accompanied by Invisible Familiars (Jared Samuel) on keyboards, begins where the new album, Party, ends.
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