For a night where you go crazy, you get spiritual, and you sing and dance without a care, Crystal Fighters are your providers. Meshing Spanish-pop with dance electro, their concert is one to feel larger than life because you finally feel alive. From their positive lyrics and literal sage of the stage, the night felt like one of pure, human connection.
If you read my interview with the Crystal Fighters, you know they are spiritual seekers, which is why their concert is, unsurprisingly, laced with spiritualism. From animal calls to soulful chants, their music and performance is about building bridges between your mind and heart and those of others. In a world that can be VERY self-centered, The Crystal Fighters pose a spiritual question/ dilemma: can you be self-conscious while being spiritually conscious? Mindfulness is an eternal quest but when you are constantly worrying over how you look in the world over how you live in it, your self- consciousness can block your spiritual awareness. Hence, from record to concert, their new album Everything Is My Family, came full circle as music to celebrate awakened mentalities.
It is no secret that Millennials love purveying “woke” perceptions because this generation is the most highly educated and active in social causes then any previous generation before us. The “Woodstock” generation may have looked peaceful, but we actually are (lol!). Playing into the “awakened” mind-frame, Crystal Fighters is a complete success of a concert. Everyone there had come both open and expecting to jump around, hug a stranger, hi-five a neighboring concert-goer, and have percussive dreams pounced into their brains through the bongo-riffs. Yes, forget guitar riffing! Give these guys some bongos and Basque instruments, and you will see the stage ablaze, which is why their concert is also successful for being different. There are not too many great bands singing Spanish-pop/electro-dance tracks to English audiences completely willing to sing-along. Yet, it is hard not to partake in a Crystal Fighters concert because they both encourage it and you look dumb if you do not.
What I most appreciate from their performance is that it challenged every childhood/ high school stigma that taught you the “cool kids” are the ones that do not partake or the ones that show no “emotion” or “care” for anyone else. The irony of being a Millennial is that aside from mottos of being “awakened”, one of our biggest mantras is “No F**ks Given”. Yet, Crystal Fighters show that caring is not a bad thing but worrying is. You should care for yourself, others, and this world, but do it without the useless sentiment of anxiety. From dancing and running around the stage, the Crystal Fighters cared and entertained their audience; showing the difference between being careless and carefree is spiritual. For More Information On The Crystal Fighter Click Here.
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