Poi Dog Pondering::The Vic '96

Liquid White Light

For five nights, Poi Dog Pondering brought down Chicago's Vic Theater in their most fully-realized concert experience yet. The shows were a career retrospective beginning with a mostly acoustic, slower set and working up to a fevered pitch by the close of the second set.

The music has been captured on a specially-priced double live CD, Liquid White Light.

Of course, you can't squeeze the entire Poi experience on a CD. Poi is a mixture of sight and sound. House-O-Matic dancing: Intelligent lights sweeping the stage, cutting through the smoke: Luke Savisky's film loop projections.

The main body of the show was the two sets that make up the album. Then followed two encores, one which led with "Building" and featured several members of Poi and their crew doing their favorite covers. The second encore featured Poi NRG Inc, making their unique blend of live and looped electronica.

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