Coachella 2015: Gaslamp Killer, weird and wonderful
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Who: The Gaslamp Killer Experience in the Gobi Tent
In 3 or Fewer Words: Exorcist at work?
Memorable Because: Reprising a show he did in 2013 just months after his near-death experience in a scooter accident, the Gaslamp Killer — aka experimental electronic producer William Bensussen — staged a show featuring an 11-piece orchestra, two dancers and a level of weirdness usually not found outside the Do Lab. At various junctures, the Gaslamp Killer DJ’d from a riser toward the back of the stage, conducted the orchestra (three string players stage right, three horn players opposite them, with a bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, drummer and second percussionist) and sang. The music could be characterized, I suppose, as improvisational psychedelia, leading up to some sort of ritual that transpired with an object at center stage. I’m not even going to pretend I understand (commenters who are conversant in Gaslamp Killer: Feel free to enlighten me and I will update this post), but I would go see it again.
What I’d Tell My Friends Who Kasabian: You’re so … normal.
— K.B. (Photos by Bronson)
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