you left my heart stained

Jose Gonzalez played at Richard's last night.



The first openers were a British band called Psapp. They had a very playful and entertaining set, utilizing a lot of different instruments.




Things such as a toy telephone, stuffed animals with noises, mini electronic guitar, and even a cat hand puppet were all fair game to be used. Many of their songs had associations with cats, which were really cute.




During the performance, both Juana Molina and Jose Gonzalez came onstage to join them. They also mentioned that the three different artists have started a new band called Animal Damage while touring together. Overall, I was quite impressed with their set.



Juana Molina played next. The songstress from Argentina performed solo with her guitar, looping and effect pedals, and assortment of keyboards.



She did a great job creating layers in her sound with the looping pedals. For her last song, Juana had four different vocal loops going to create some really nice harmonies as she sang over it. She also had some good picking patterns on her classical.




Jose Gonzalez came onstage and played the set seated in a chair on a riser. Armed with just his voice and classical guitar, the Swedish artist played a brief but solid set. He opened with Deadweight On Velveteen, and proceeded to play most of the songs of his debut release, Veneer.



I liked how he had his pickup duct taped over the soundhole of his guitar.



Both Psapp and Juana Molina watched his set from side stage and had Jose cracking up as he played Heartbeats. I must say that I enjoy Jose's cover of the song a lot more than the original electronica version by The Knife. Everyone came up onstage near the end to say thanks and sing Happy Birthday to the tour manager. Jose came back out and finished his 45min set with a cover of Massive Attack's Teardrop.