Carpet Post “Shouting Florence” Live Video Featuring Stefan Koglek
Posted in Bootleg Theater on July 7th, 2021 by JJ Koczan
Strictly speaking, Carpet‘s new video isn’t exactly new. Fine. It’s newly posted, however, and it rules, so whatever. In 2018, the German heavy progressive rockers posted a live take on the track “Selene” from their 2018 album, About Rooms and Elephants (review here), and though it’s taken from a different in-studio performance, the clip below for “Shouting Florence” would seem to operate in the same spirit. The inclusion Colour Haze‘s Stefan Koglek on guitar is, frankly, its own excuse for being.
One might recall Koglek‘s label, Elektrohasch Schallplatten, released Carpet‘s 2017 album, Secret Box (review here), and since it’s from that record that “Shouting Florence” comes, it’s only fitting that he should show up here. Compared to the studio version, this live take emphasizes the rhythm a bit in its starts and stops — there isn’t quite the same prominence of cymbal wash as on the original, but the melody is right on in any case and I’m not about to argue with the melody as presented or the languid semi-desert vibe that emerges as the keys and guitar work together in a way that manages to still be progressive without actively working toward ‘prog’ as a goal.
And of course, when the solo hits after the three-minute mark, that guitar tone is nothing if not recognizable, video or no. Newness notwithstanding, it’s four minutes out of your day from an underrated band that you won’t regret spending. If you need it to be sold to you, that should do it.
Side note, Florence was grandmother’s name. Lady indeed might yell at your ass.
Enjoy the clip:
Carpet, “Shouting Florence” official live video
Recorded live at Albert Matong Atelier für Musik Augsburg, 2018.
Filmed by Bruno Tenschert & Flo Laske
Edited by Jakob Mader
Mixing by Maximilian Wörle
Mastering by Dimi Conidas
Guitar and vocals: Maximilian Stephan
Drums: Jakob Mader
Bass: Hubert Steiner
Rhodes: Sigmund Perner
Lead guitar: Stefan Koglek
