David Moss (en BcnWeek)

(published in BCNWeek Magazine, Barcelona, November 2006)

Singer, percussionist, composer, performer, teacher, curator, improviser, theater-maker and actor, David Moss is a pioneer of the solo concert form and has presented thousands of solo percussion and voice concerts around the world.

At the CCCB, as the finishing touch on the exhibition Mil y Una Veus, we got to enjoy one of his last shows, Wild World, odd objects, extreme voice, a very intense musical performance with plenty of surprises. Wild World is a performance of dense, intense, humorous, pulsing, lyrical and eccentric music filled with voices. You could describe it as physical music from a unique vocalist who is one of the most unpredictable improvisers of the 21st century.

Wild World investigates the borderline between rhythm and song, noise and beats, stories and the human body. Combining language-inflected voice with perverted percussion rhythms and eccentric electronics, Moss performs a series of pieces which fuse sound, sense, nonsense, attack, meaning, distorted texts, laughter, sonic pleasures and surprise.

For almost an hour, David Moss provoked a feeling of incredulity and expectancy in the spectators, difficult in spectacles of this type. As an example: at the end of the concert he left the stage while the music and the echo of his recorded voice were still sounding in the ambience, mixed with the applause of the public.