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LE GUESS WHO Part II, JANSKERK, UTRECHT 11th November 2023: SPACE ECHO AND THE “RHODES SOUND”.  
I adore playing Le jour et la nuit du réel live, and I love the transition from the Day side to the Night side as I play the last Day suite, “Be without being seen”: instead of sending the Moog Grandmother into the MF-104M Delay via Aux Send, I switch to the Roland RE-201 Space Echo in my studio (my Soundgas Echo from 2019 is still going strong!) and, for the live show, a BOSS RE-20 pedal: it does not have the magic of the real unit (no real tape noise and no input drive), but it does do a great job of giving me the exact same echo as on the record without me having to look for equivalent settings.
The shift in mood is immediately palpable: the MF-104M is to me an “earth energy” device, whereas the Space Echo couldn’t be more aptly named, it really does send sound into another dimension.
For the next show, at home in Barcelona on 14th December at L’Auditori (tickets here), I am already smiling at the thought of having the real thing with me on stage, filmed from above – echo tape travelling is my favourite gear sight in the world!
When the Night side begins with “Les parenthèses enchantées – Movement I”, I always really feel the shift in energy. I love how sparse and spacious that whole suite is, and how simple the settings are for it after the denser sounds and complex patching of the previous half. I even called this the “Rhodes sound” on my worksheets throughout the making of the album, and it was my original sonic building block and starting point for a lot of the compositions.

Next stops, with more dates to be announced next year:
14 12 L’Auditori / L’Afluent – BARCELONA, ES @auditoribcn @lafluent
16 12 Galeria Ze Dos Bois – LISBOA, PT @galeriazedosbois
2024
29 02 Elevate – GRAZ, AT @elevate_festival
19-23 03 Tremor – SAÕ MIGUEL, AZORES, PT @tremorpdl
21-24 03 Big Ears – KNOXVILLE, TN, USA @bigearsfestival
🙏🙏🙏 @leguesswho and 📷 @porfidou @stretchead @jobdewit @negativland00

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