Performance Review: Nylas in Wonderland

Date: 22 Oct 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Esplanade Theatre
Kaki: Skycloud & YD
Rating: 2.5 stars
Language: Music

Synopsis:
Slip away to the idyllic dream world of NyLas where bleeps, glitches and samples float amidst shimmering waves of muted sounds, ethereal vocals and pure whimsy, pulsating with a subtle, sometimes funky, riff.

Nominated as 'Best Vocal Group' at this year's Golden Melody Awards, Taiwanese dream-pop group NyLas combines electronic effects and beats, acoustic guitar, fantastical melodies and lyrics, and elements from rock, ballads and even children's songs to create magical music for grownups.

Review:
Well, this was a rather slow performance, maybe there wasn't sufficient rapport being built and maybe they were just too foreign to me and to the bulk of the audience. So once you are not able to build rapport, a lot of things, communication, etc are lost to us...

Still, the music was actually a little more down my alley, as compared to the Wa Wa concert. Pity they were really not that great in building rapport.. so I left the concert feeling somewhat shortchanged...