George Maple | Adelaide Festival 2021 review

Maple emerged from the haze and the crowd went wild for a superb combination of video and audio, movement and dance.

George Maple – Photo: Lead Press Image

George Maple

Contemporary Music / AUS

FESTIVAL

The Summerhouse

March 12

Fans of the Australian-born, US-based singer/songwriter and all-round artist George Maple were out in force for a one-off concert that included most of her recent album MYTH and a few bonbons from the back catalogue.

MYTH from 2020 brings together many of the features that have characterised Maple’s work, including an edgy, performance art aesthetic, and exciting, exotic cinematic, lighting and other visual effects.

At the same time the music itself is stripped down in comparison to dance hits like Talk Talk from her debut EP Vacant Space.

With Maple, it’s all about the experience, and the performance was a dazzler.

Pinpricks of light shot through haze, slowly revealing a huge silhouette framed in blood red, two black clad dancers framing the image.

Maple emerged from the haze, black clad with silver cuffs, and the crowd went wild.

The presentation of MYTH is an event in itself: A combination of music, superb video and audio, movement and dance.

A few tracks from other albums including Vacant Space and her debut album Lover, as well as the popular collaboration with fellow Aussie What So Not, Gemini, and Buried, with rapper Rome Fortune.

The urge to get up and dance was nigh irresistible for the eager crowd, but almost everyone was suitably restrained, and the pent up energy was expended on the deafening cheers that echoed into the night sky.