José González

31 August 2008

Most of us know José González from his epic song 'Heartbeats', the soundtrack to the Sony Bravia tv ad and subsequently most of the UK's year. In fact a cover by Swedish electro band The Knife, José pared it down to fit a simple set of riffs on his six-string acoustic - and what a result. See him at the Open Air Theatre and discover some treats from his new album 'In Our Nature'.
 
"This music doesn't simply demand stillness and quiet, it creates it, spinning a gauzy bubble inside which time, as measured by the noisy, conventional world, seems to slow. Such is Gonzalez's command of this etherised other realm that there are moments of supreme intensity when you feel your heartbeat stop, then - a kind of weightlessness into which rushes a lovely panic as you're reminded of the brilliant terror of being alive." (The Guardian)

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