Marques Toliver - 'CanAan' / Butterflies Are Not Free' @ De La Warr Pavilion 19 Feb 2010

Heres the jaw-droppingly brilliant opening piece from the exceptionally-talented Brooklyn-based artist Marques Toliver's 4-song set , supporting Bat For Lashes that night.

Since I've seen 2 alternative titles to this song on at least a couple of YT vids, I'm hedging my bets by including both titles here (with the 'CanAan' title spelled in that uniquely letter-cased way). If someone could kindly point out which title is correct, I'll happily amend mine.

My apologies for the occasionally obtrusive whir of my new cams zoom mechanism, & other minor 'noises off' in this vid (which I believe thankfully isn't noticeable on my other Marques vid - which I've also just posted - nor on my BFL vids, though at least in the latter case this may well be cos BFL's louder / presumably more ambiently-amped music drowns it out). If I'd had time to conduct more thorough tests with my brand new cam before-hand, I'd have kept the zooming down to an absolute minimum here...

I'll also take this opportunity to apologise to Marques for only having recorded 2 of his 4 performed songs (since I was trying to save my one & only camera battery's power for BFL).

My final apology is for taking this long to upload these vids. This was partly cos it took me a couple of weeks just to work out how to upload vids to YouTube in glorious HD if they were shot in AVCHD Lite format (see my original non-HD version of BFL's 'Howl' which I've left up as justification for the delay waiting til I'd finally found a solution before posting all these). In fact I was originally going to delay uploading these til after I'd posted my last remaining footage from Natasha's final song of the night, her heart-warming cover of Peter Gabriel's uplifting 'Solsbury Hill' which I still need to edit, since I first had to switch memory cards mid song; only for my battery to finally give up the ghost less than a minute later. However, after being politely asked by Marques himself whether I intended posting my vids of his performances, I've finally & belatedly concluded I ought not to put off doing so any longer (regardless of my original aim to post all my BFL vids from this gig in consecutive performance sequence...)

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• CanAan
• Butterflies
• Are
• Not
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• De
• La
• Warr
• Pavilion
• Bexhill
• On
• Sea
• Bat
• For
• Lashes
• Natasha
• Khan
• live

[holisticdan]

Love it! Just thoughts: the beginning violin reminded me of Paganini's "God save the King" then moving into Vivaldi's "Four seasons" Either way great artist. i shall definitely follow up on this guy

[TheReplenishingFlame]

@holisticdan I just checked out the Paganini and I reckon there are definite similarities (well heard!). I think this only goes to show just how gifted a composer & musician Mr Toliver is to be able to assimilitate such great sources into his own phenomenal works.

[Nexxxhype]

THE ZOOM ON THAT CAMERA!

[PeaceToYou1000]

Ah, what a remarkable talent! About to be quite obsessed.

[blugroo]

How quiet is that crowd? gobsmacked...

[cortezthemusic]

he is a male siren we of the same breed

[cortezthemusic]

this dude is fucking sick he make me feel for real yo like a homo im like in love with his voice

[BVriahmay]

actually enchanting.... love the mix of vocals and violin, very different and refreshing .

[TonitheTater]

Holy...this bloke is some sort of genius.

[kiba775237]

yay..... your from the sky, saw you at the cockpit......a true artist