Barbican, London, live streamThe producer-drummer leads from the back in a virtuosic set that draws on last year’s cross-pollinating Dark Matter
Although there’s no audience, Moses Boyd’s Barbican live stream has all the trappings of a major event – the opening gig in a spring series at this
London venue. Swathes of white fabric billow from ceiling to floor; illuminated bars, a little like rave glow sticks, sprout up across the stage. Dry ice is pumping.
Arrayed on platforms are six players, a horseshoe shape that places drummer, producer and jazz envelope-pusher Boyd at the centre. If you were a teenage drummer and someone told you that at 29, you’d be lit by search beams, playing eight-minute solos on a riser in a concert hall with people hanging on to your every syncopation, you’d probably think you’d won the drummer pools.