Shut Up & Listen, the brainchild of Dom Benigno and Siri Linn Brandsoy, is a unique event that allows you to listen to acoustic sets undisturbed by the banalities of other people’s conversations and daily dramas. There is one simple request that while the artists are performing, the audience remains silent. We interviewed Riccardo Moretti & Fracesca Krnjak from the Italian indietronica duo Legoloop who will be preforming at it’s a house Wednesday 3rd April, they let us in on their many layers as street artists and musicians, TribalNeed and Parolabianca, and their love for each other and Cape Town.

Can you give us a short introduction of one another?
Riccardo: Francesca is the most talented artist I’ve ever met! She can do almost anything that involves creativity. I’m more in the technical side and I’m a trained musician. I’ve studied Jazz and play in many many different bands.
Francesca: Besides being a phenomenal musician, a multi-instrumentalist, eclectic, precise and brilliant at the percussive element of the band, Riccardo is undoubtedly the practical and grounded element of our duo. His elements are definitively fire and heart and this blends perfectly with my dreamy and otherworldly nature. I love the way he is passionate about surfing and kitesurfing, and when he plays sometimes I feel that we’re kind of surfing the waves of sounds.
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Observatory is in a constant state of flux. Cool places pop up and disappear. Tagores is one of the survivors. It’s changed a lot in the past few years but somehow managed to maintain.

It’s a small, cozy venue. When you first enter you might wonder how on earth any band would be able to play there. Legoloop don’t use lot’s of space and the little stage room was completely full. Other times they fit an entire 3-piece band in there.

Anyway, it’s Monday morning, I had too much to drink last night and this is as far as the post goes. Legoloop were great as always. I’ve written a short post(and you can listen to them here) about them in the past and the same still held for this show, except for the fact that we could move!

Link to original post: http://www.thesestreets.co.za/blog/2013/03/25/legoloop-reprise/