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On the way to the celebration of their 20 years of career, ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ was invited to be part of this ๐๐๐'s famous series, being August 19, 2015, the big day of the recording of this concert at ๐ป๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ in ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐๐. The fans who attended this special night were chosen at random after receiving more than 10,000 requests via the band's official website.
✨๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ'๐ฌ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐ซ✨
๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐: "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."
๐ค๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ 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."
๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐: "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."
▪️๐ข๐ท๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ 25๐ก๐, 2015.
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After performing several acoustic sets in their career, "๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ " stands out because ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ managed to reinvent once again their songs making elegant and delicate versions of them, where ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ shows off his talent as a multi-instrumentalist playing the bass, guitar, piano, qanun, shruti box and doing backing vocals, while ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ along with his beloved guitar from 1956 called "๐ด๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐" 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 ๐ด๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐ ๐.๐.๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ who sang with ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ "๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐" and then singer/songwriter ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐ a.k.a ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ came on stage to sing with him "๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐พ๐๐๐".
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 "๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ ๐ด๐" and "๐ฉ๐๐๐๐", 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 "๐ฉ๐๐๐๐" 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.
๐ฟ https://spoti.fi/3Dff2cP ๐ถ
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๐ซ ๐บ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ค 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.
๐ซ ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ค 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."
▪️๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ 13๐ก๐, 2016.
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