Adam Green @ Bi Nuu in Berlin
Funny, surreal, natural, spontaneous and with a questionable talent for dancing, Adam Green is certainly a Renaissance man. A modern and true indie one. A great musician who writes beautifully sincere lyrics. An awesome storyteller and a visual artist too. It is always a pleasure to see and listen to Adam Green, and if it is in a reduced and intimate space like Bi Nuu (Berlin), the experience is even more enjoyable.
Adam Green catches you from the start, he has that ability. He is able to happily comment with the audience his discomfort for not having shit that day, encouraging the audience to download his comic from the internet for free or interpreting many of his long-standing hits, with a naturalness that not many could or would dare.
In his last Berlin show, preceded by Green´s friend and very talented new pop-folk songwriter Jackie Cohen, Adam was warm and close to the audience, clashing hands, smiling and signing autographs in the merchandising area after the concert. There was also no shortage of hits like Friends of Mine, Dance with me and even a cappella version of Eternal Flame mixed with Jessica Simpson. Heat for a cold Autumn night in Berlin.
Adam Green at Bi Nuu in Berlin last October 28th, 2019.
Green is without any doubt an artistic polymath. As part of New York’s downtown antifolk scene at the end of the nineties, Green made up one half of The Moldy Peaches, who later enjoyed mainstream success via the 2007 Grammy-winning Juno soundtrack. As a solo artist, Green has recorded 10 albums. Green’s paintings and sculptures have been the subject of exhibitions in throughout the world and he first combined his visual aesthetic, psychedelic writings and musical compositions in the The Wrong Ferarri (2010), the first feature film shot entirely on an iPhone. His second feature film, Adam Green's Aladdin (2016) was an immersive fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Jack Dishel and Francesco Clemente that was shot entirely on papier-mache sets.
Adam Green has done so many things that by now he’s earned the right to do whatever he wants, and we will always be waiting there ready to enjoy whatever he brings.
