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On the way to the celebration of their 20 years of career, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 was invited to be part of this 𝐌𝐓𝐕's famous series, being August 19, 2015, the big day of the recording of this concert at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔 in 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒐, 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏. The fans who attended this special night were chosen at random after receiving more than 10,000 requests via the band's official website.
✨💫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐔𝐧𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟 💫✨
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: "We wanted to do something extraordinary, something that would challenge us. The process has been interesting, because we were creating something while we were performing it. That was something we had never done before. The simultaneity of the performance and the creation process was completely new for us. It wasn't going to be enough to just sit at the piano and strip the songs down to their bare bones."
🎤𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 adds: "With acoustic versions it can be easy to become very self-indulgent and just play all the slow tracks. So it was challenging to do a setlist that flowed well. Once we found out that we were going to play this show we were on a mission to make our contribution to the 'MTV Unplugged' story equally exciting for us and the audience."
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: "The biggest challenge was to recreate these songs in a new and appealing way. Because at the end of the day, we, too, wanted to be surprised. We spent months preparing this. We were constantly working on those songs and tweaking them, because this was completely unknown territory for us – totally outside of our comfort zone.
'MTV Unplugged' gave us the opportunity to explore the acoustic and more experimental side of our music, and to play a few songs we had not performed like this before."
▪️𝑢𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 25𝑡𝒉, 2015.
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After performing several acoustic sets in their career, "𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝑼𝒏𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅" stands out because 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 managed to reinvent once again their songs making elegant and delicate versions of them, where 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 shows off his talent as a multi-instrumentalist playing the bass, guitar, piano, qanun, shruti box and doing backing vocals, while 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 along with his beloved guitar from 1956 called "𝑴𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒃𝒚" and with his unmistakable voice performs each song in an endearing way. He even dusted off his harmonica after several years of not playing it.
They were also accompanied by a dozen guest musicians and featured two great female voices; Danish singer 𝑴𝒂𝒋𝒌𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆 𝒂.𝒌.𝒂 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒏 who sang with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 "𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑴𝒆" and then singer/songwriter 𝑱𝒐𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒓 a.k.a 𝑱𝒐𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒔 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 came on stage to sing with him "𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕".
It is worth mentioning that among the 17 songs they played that night there were songs that they had not played for several years and there were even a couple of songs that they had never played live before, like "𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑶𝒏 𝑻𝒐 𝑴𝒆" and "𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐", particularly the latter is a song that the band has a special fondness for. They had been waiting to have the proper instrumentation to play it live and this was the perfect occasion to do so. So perhaps "𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐" is the highlight - or one of the many highlights - of this concert.
The setting of the stage deserves a special mention. The band was surrounded by thin transparent curtains where the lights were projecting different animations throughout the show, creating an ethereal atmosphere just like floating in outer space or being in a beautiful dream with the most amazing music in the background. Giving a magical and complete experience to the audience.
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💫 𝑺𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆?
🎤 For me, this is one of the most important moments in our career. It's one of the things we've done that I am most proud of. It was an amazing experience for me because it was something we'd never done before. We were rehearsing but we were also rewriting material, which finally gave us a chance to add a string section for a whole project. I've wanted to do that for a long time. It was terrifying at the time of the performance, because it was so fucking intimate. We put a tremendous amount of work into reworking the songs to fit the MTV Unplugged guidelines. I put it at number one because I am actually over the moon about this record. These songs from our past could be reinterpreted and stripped down to fit another medium, and to me that's an indicator of a good song.
💫 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔?
🎤 Well, we're constantly doing that. We're constantly covering our own material and breathing new life into it so we can play it live. Because we need an emotional connection to the song in order to play it live, otherwise it feels like a mechanical act and untruth. We don't want any of that in our performances. Sometimes you have to completely tear a song apart and give it a whole new life. Doing Unplugged and doing it well is quite a feat, I think. I am particularly proud of "Meds," which is completely rebuilt with the strings. Same goes for "Without You I'm Nothing."
▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 13𝑡𝒉, 2016.
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