A sweet first evening at Paléo with NTO

Dust and crowds are in full force this Tuesday, July 18, on the Plaine de l’Asse: the 46th edition of Paléo is underway. Following performances by Louise Attaque and the Black Eyed Peas, among others, electronic music composer NTO treats the audience to a mind-blowing show.

Although thunderstorms threatened the Paléo Festival on this first night of the 2023 edition, the audience wasn’t deterred. As usual, festivalgoers turned out in droves in front of every stage from the very first concerts, showing their support for the artists. At 1 a.m., the same was true at the foot of the magnificent Belleville stage. Decorated in blue and green this year, the electronic music area welcomed NTO, a digital musician, who transported his audience to a parallel universe.

The concert gets off to a gentle start: the crowd may be a little tired, but they're still there after this first evening. The azure lights of the stage invite the audience to let themselves go, to the almost dreamlike but very rhythmic sounds emanating from all sides. And as you let yourself be carried away, you land in a speechless time bubble.

As if on a cloud

Without feeling the hour and a quarter of the concert pass by in the humid heat of the crowd, we let ourselves be lulled by the bass that regularly accelerates and explodes at the climax of the French artist's tracks. The spotlights turn red and pink to accompany these moments. Looking up at the top of the stage set, white, red, pink and blue points of light cut through the black sky and rush in, just as the bass rushes through the bodies.

As NTO lights up several cigarettes, a small cloud of cotton and LEDs in the colors of the Italian flag, swirling through the crowd, perfectly captures the atmosphere of this concert. Perched firmly on its stick, the cloud moves in time with the beat: it rises and falls gently at first. When the tempo picks up and the lights turn red, it spins around and moves faster and faster, just like the audience, which quickly disperses after the final applause. A magnificent, timeless experience to kick off Paléo.

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