{"id":4392,"date":"2013-07-31T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=4392"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:22:36","slug":"bao-what-a-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/reviews-2013\/bao-what-a-night\/","title":{"rendered":"BAO, what a night!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pite\u00e5-Tidningen 130725<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: Anders Sandlund<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pite\u00e5. 4,000 visitors filled the Norrstrand lawns and some people stood in queue for hours to get a seat as close to the stage as possible. Pite\u00e5-Tidningen’s Anders Sandlund is maybe not lyrical, but noticeably thrilled when he here below reviews the performance at Norrstrand on Wednesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concert: Benny Andersson Band
\n<\/b>Location: <\/b>Norrstrand, Pite\u00e5
\n<\/b>Length: Slightly over four hours, including a short break. More than 50(!) songs.
\n<\/b>Audience: Approximately 4,000 people. High average age. Cozy atmosphere.<\/p>\n

With the right band, program, weather and audience in symbiosis is this an evening out of the ordinary. I note that Benny Andersson Band gives me one of the most beautiful job evenings I\u2019ve ever experienced.<\/p>\n

[…] On the whole it\u2019s a generous, powerful and pleasurable experience.<\/p>\n

There is a large collection of high caliber musicians who take care of us and they sound just as good as one can expect.<\/p>\n

Benny nearly never looks as satisfied as he does when he wears his accordion. Somewhere, he’s probably still the same person that his grandfather once inspired, and many successes later he still feels so authentic and unspoiled in his relationship to the notes, rhythms and harmonies.<\/p>\n

BAO frames the bandleader\u2019s musical achievement in a nice way and move freely among lush umpa umpa pace and old-fashioned pop with a jazzy New Orleans touch, between frisky hambo and pop with dizzying international success on its conscience. It is as if someone has mixed the programs* “Nygammalt” and “Da Capo” and poured a few scoops of Abba in the brew.<\/p>\n

(*two Swedish radio programs playing songs that once were hits)<\/p>\n

The Abba songs are chosen with style. Not the biggest, most played songs. No, here we get a nice lumbering “Why did it have to be me,” an organic “Kisses of fire”, an “Hasta manana” with extra luster and a really powerful “One man, one woman” in a duet with Sj\u00f6holm and K\u00f6rberg.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s mosquito-free and virtually no wind. The large lamp warms and the sky is blue. In short, you\u2019ll have to look at a painting of Zorn to find a more enchanting high summer evening. The atmosphere is really cozy. The lavatory queue seems to be of the humane kind throughout the evening and people talk to each other in normal conversation voices during the break. I think that the lack of beer pumps is the reason, in a good way.<\/p>\n

On the dance floor the colored lanterns are swaying in schottis pace. There\u2019s a pretty high pressure on the dance floor – which does have the best “seats” – except for when the band plays Bach. When Helen Sj\u00f6holm gives us “V\u00e5r sista dans” it of course gets crowded.<\/p>\n

She is just right for this. The power, presence and articulation fit perfectly in most everything she gets to handle. “Bortom sol och m\u00e5ne” (Beyond sun and moon) and “Svarta siluetter” (Black silhouettes), both with lyrics by Kristina Lugn, are a couple of newer song jewels.<\/p>\n

Tommy K\u00f6rberg leads the singing in “Gamle Svarten” and he even plays drums in a sequence, but above all it’s fun that he still has so much voice in him. It\u00b4s obvious in several heavier numbers.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s own Kalle Moraeus makes a subtle “Beatrice” and a humorous and powerful “O sole mio” and when it\u2019s time for “En dag i s\u00e4nder” he offers a dazzling guitar solo.<\/p>\n

The last hour is magnificent entertainment. The band tunes “Cadillac” and drives out in the moonlight with captain K\u00f6rberg at the wheel. We get “Fait accompli”, we get an extra nimble “Du \u00e4r min man” and a medley including “V\u00e5rat g\u00e4ng” (Our gang) and “B\u00e4ttre och b\u00e4ttre dag f\u00f6r dag” (Better and better day by day). Gosh, I’m just waiting for “Schottis p\u00e5 Valhall”.<\/p>\n

The party closes dignified with “O Klang och jubeltid” and I\u2019m still content as I write this. I can only say wow – sorry, BAO – what a night!<\/p>\n

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