The Norwegian band came with their debut album tour
A-Ha took to the stage of the Espaço Unimed, in Sao Paulo, on 18 and 19 July, with the match won – tickets sold out for years (due to the pandemic), to play in front of one of the audiences that most celebrate them in 40 years of activity and fully present one of their most loved albums, “Hunting High and Low”. Victory happened. Not exactly by route, but in abundance.
Morten Harket (vocals), Magne Furuholmen (keyboards) and Påul Waaktaar (guitarist) have many, many, many hits in these four decades of music. They could have chosen the 1985 debut album, as they did, or “Scoundrel Days” (86) or “Stay on These Roads” (88), as they form the golden triple, especially in Brazilian taste.
Maybe they selected the first one to leave the window open to do the following as well. But this is speculation, and the fact is that their music to be presented in a large space like Unimed requires physical demands from the musicians.
And this is the neutral point of the presentation.
All three are 60 years old. And either they no longer have the vigor they deserve or they simply chose to use the stage in a more intimate way, regardless of the size of the audience.
The rhythms dropped and cannot be compared, for example, to the anthological shows they did in Brazil, such as the first time they came and played at the then Parque Antarctica, in 1988, or the second Rock in Rio, in 91.
But with that discount, it’s really nice to hear the band’s tunes live, without tension.
They weren’t exactly in the correct order on the album, otherwise they would have played the biggest hit in the band’s history, “Take on Me”.
They warmed up with “Sycamore Leaves”, from the 1990 album, “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”, edited “Swing do Things”, from the second album, a cover by Carole King, “Crying in the Rain” , “Forrest for the Trees” and then “Hunting High and Low” from the second to the tenth track.
They stuck four hits from “Scoundrel Days” – “We’re Looking for the Whales”, “Cry Wolf”, “I’ve Been Losing You” and “The Living Daylights” and went backstage awaiting the Olympic comeback, which came with “Take on Me” in the encore.
Source: Terra
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