a-ha/Russia 2019

a-ha has also announced their first performance in Japan in 10 years. Introducing the latest live album that is ahead of the popular masterpiece “HUNTING HIGH AND LOW” reproduction tour. This work was recorded at “Moscow performance on November 22, 2019”. It is the best audience recording that captures the whole picture. It has attracted a lot of attention, with the Tokyo and Fukuoka performances in March being sold out as early as March, and the reason for this is, after all, the masterpiece reproduction show. They are currently carrying out “PLAY HUNTING HIGH AND LOW LIVE TOUR”, and this work is the first report and is the perfect live album for preparation for coming to Japan. Before we get into the details, let’s start with the show’s position. Let’s take a look at the current tour dates. 2019/June 6/August 17: Norway (2 performances) “PLAY HUNTING HIGH AND LOW LIVE TOUR”/October 29-November 22: Europe #1 (15 performances) ←★Here★ 2020 February 1st + 7th: Norway (2 performances) February 11th-15th: Middle East/South Africa (3 performances) February 19th-March 7th: Oceania (8 performances) March 10th Sunday – 21st: Japan/Singapore (6 performances), September 25th – 27th: North America (3 performances), October 30th – November 28th: ​​Europe #2 (16 performances) This has been announced so far. schedule. The reenactment tour started at the end of October, and has just finished its first week in Europe. Next year, I will travel to my home country of Norway and the southern hemisphere before finally landing in Japan. The Moscow performance of this work was the final concert of the first leg “Europe #1”. This work that recorded such a show is exactly the best audience recording…I guess. It suddenly became unreliable, but the sound is so good that I couldn’t help but get lost. In fact, it is the master released by the person who recorded it, so it is definitely an audience, but the sound does not feel the slightest sense of distance, and even if you look for it with headphones, you can’t find the hall sound. Rather than saying, “It’s like a sound board,” it was more like “Where is the audience?” If the person who recorded it didn’t say so, I would definitely have thought it was an FM broadcast. What is depicted with such close sound is a reenactment show of the famous masterpiece that has become a hot topic. Of course, one album won’t make a full show, so let’s organize the set here. Part 1: HUNTING HIGH AND LOW (10 songs in total) Part 2: SCOUNDREL DAYS (3 songs): The Swing of Things/I’ve Been Losing You/Scoundrel Days・THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1 song): The Living Daylights・STAY ON THESE ROADS (1 song): Stay on These Roads ・EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON (2 songs): Crying in the Rain/Sycamore Leaves ・ANALOGUE (1 song): Analogue (All I Want)・FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN (1 song): Foot of the Mountain・Other (1 song): Digital River…and so on. The show consists of two parts, and the first part is completely reproduced. In this work, the entire disk 1 is devoted to the reproduction part. The second part is a regular-style greatest hits show, with selections from the Golden Age’s 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums, as well as recent works “ANALOGUE” and “FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN.” As expected, “SCOUNDREL DAYS” is thick, but the others are only one or two songs, and a wide range of famous songs are scattered in a short time. One of the songs I’m not used to hearing is “Digital River.” In fact, this song was produced during the session for his latest work “CAST A STEEL”, and is currently unreleased. “Another point” that was only played after “PLAY HUNTING HIGH AND LOW LIVE TOUR”. In this work, you can already enjoy such new songs with the best sound that can be mistaken for a sound board. A masterpiece that is perfect as a live performance of his masterpiece “HUNTING HIGH AND LOW” and as a preparation for the upcoming performance in Japan. It is a shocking work that even comes with a new song “Digital River”. There will be no shows until February 2020, so there will be no more live albums. Live at Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia 22nd November 2019 ULTIMATE SOUND Disc 1(47:20) 1. Take On Me 2. Train of Thought 3. Hunting High and Low 4. The Blue Sky 5. Living a Boy’s Adventure Tale 6 . The Sun Always Shines on T.V. 7. And You Tell Me 8. Love Is Reason 9. I Dream Myself Alive (Demo version) 10. Here I Stand and Face the Rain Disc 2(56:31) 1. Intro 2. Analogue (All I Want) 3. Foot of the Mountain 4. The Swing of Things 5. Crying in the Rain 6. Sycamore Leaves 7. Digital River 8. I’ve Been Losing You 9. Stay on These Roads 10 Scoundrel Days 11 The Living Daylights Magne Furuholmen – keyboards, guitars, bass, backing vocals Morten Harket – lead vocals, guitars Pal Waaktaar-Savoy – guitars, drums, percussion, backing vocals