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Let The Night Return
Luke Turner
, January 29th, 2021 09:03
A recorded live performance by Karl Regis O Connor makes for a unique and delightfully daft visual album, finds Luke Turner
It s fair to say that in a time when we re starved for the thrill of live music, most of the virtual replacements have proved a poor substitute, with most home-recorded live streams and so on like the worst soggy tofu standing in for a glorious hand-chopped steak tartare.
Let The Night Return, a new performance film meets live album and fancy book by Karl Regis O Connor, marks an exception to this rule. The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Peloponnese has been hosting varied entertainments in its gracefully curving stonework since the fourth century BC. Still known for its incredible acoustic qualities, it can hold 14,000 people, though an audience of none was present for the recording of O Connor s film, beautifully shot by Vasileios Trigkas in June 2019. The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus was p