Show #183: Mörglbl

July 6th, 2009

This Thursday marks the beginning of the 2009 La Fête de Marquette, a free festival here in Madison which coincides as closely as possible with Bastille Day. For four days all things French and French-inflected will be on display, in addition to decidedly non-French beer. Food, crafts, and music will be there for the taking. Back in May, one of the festival organizers brought a French band, Mörglbl, here to Madison as a pre-festival warm-up.

(Photo found here.)

The band is one of French guitar virtuoso Christophe Godin’s many projects and, in simple terms, Mörglbl play a mix of jazz fusion and heavy metal with stab of funk here and a good amount of shredding there. I attended the warm-up show at the Crystal Corner in May. It was also nice that local radio station WORT broadcasted some in-studio performances by them that afternoon. While these guys all have the chops and each got a chance to show off, their show was really a hoot. Unlike many bands that fall under the progressive rock umbrella, the band don’t take themselves too seriously and like to have fun onstage. This was especially evident with their cover of Deep Purple’s “Smoke On the Water” which was given a funk/reggae overhaul.

This is Mörglbl’s performance from 20 May at Martyrs’ in Chicago, the night before they played here in Madison. They were opening for Kick The McGee.

Setlist:

Tale Of Thibault > Streets
Tapas Nocturne
Monster
Pied De Biche
22 oz.
Morglbl Circus
Little Man
Myspace Book

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Mörglbl

Here’s the band at last year’s NEARfest doing “Le Project Pied de Biche”.

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