Kylie Minogue - Live in Sydney

Kylie Minogue - Live in Sydney

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Movie Review: Soulful, sensuous flirtation with unadulterated magnificence
Summary: 5 Stars

Because of the newness factor I didn't experience the kick into high gear until "Physical" - from then on, I was totally captivated by the music, the dancing, (what I could hear of) the message, everything!

Kylie does this old Olivia Newton-John tune at a somewhat slower pace, in more a dance than a rock groove. As other reviewers note - sultry it is; but it's beyond that - there's a passion, some might even consider it a spiritual inner flame burning, consuming her as she does her pole dance - while holding a wireless microphone in one hand, I might add. She's in the midst of 4 more scantily clad female Italian dancers on/with their own poles. The track is altogether mesmerizing - intensity is raised to a fever pitch. Plus you hear one of the most sublime funk guitar solos ever recorded. And there's this little hitch/hook they put into the rhythm at the beginning of each chorus . . .

From here on the intensity (plus the conveyance of Kylie's signature brand of 'meaningfulness') never let up for me.

Another tune that thoroughly bowled me over was the song "Light Years". This with its strenuously joyous tone evoked the earliest space-rock song - way back in the beginning of the 60's, the chart-topping "Telstar" by the British band the Tornadoes (Telstar was an early communications satellite). The groove is impulsive - the melody, singing and dancing infectious - and the rhythms grip you in a subtly powerful way. In certain sections the outstanding keyboardist gets busy sounding like the Moody Blues' mellotron player, dating from their 'In Search of the Lost Chord" album, and he never overdoes it.

There's no hint of the eerie (so powerfully expressed in the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home"), or the thunderously negative reverberations of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" - still there's nothing lightweight going on in this track. I couldn't make out all the words on this first hearing, but I doubt it's too far removed from the soul searching familiar from the Byrds' space-rock oeuvre - "Eight Miles High", "5D", Mr. "Spaceman", and the lengthy "Space Odyssey". Even if not the lyrics, the feeling's all there - just one more living monument of magnificence.

Musically, Kylie and/or her production team have assembled a formidable group of musicians and writers. Her backup singers are astoundingly talented. The different sounds the keyboardist lends to the multiple grooves are tasty, sinuous, profound, searing, environmentally overarching - whatever is needed, and performed with such aplomb as to be unobtrusive, while essential to the overall story/sound. The guitarist and rhythm section are complete masters of the many beats, styles and sub-genres which so effectively interlock to make this music what it is.

Visually (and in some sense musically) Kylie somewhat evokes Madonna, but without the iconic self-absorption, and totally minus the hard-edged art crowd vibe. But her content, her depth, mirrored in the genuine devotion and elation of her fans, seems more in the direction of the ever-wonderful Ms. Carey.

The dancing and choreography is, as usual with concert footage, difficult to fully grasp/appreciate, being that you can only see what a given camera angle is able to display. These film editors have maybe the most difficult job in the universe. As I think about it, this spectacle of sight and sound would have been almost ominously incredible to experience in person. Woe is me!

I'm looking forward to enjoying, and even studying this music for a long time to come.

Thank you, Kylie!

Summary of Kylie Minogue - Live in Sydney