A sweet first evening at Paléo with NTO

Dust and crowds are the order of the day this Tuesday, July 18 on the Plaine de l'Asse, as the 46th edition of Paléo gets underway. Following in the footsteps of Louise Attaque and the Black Eyed Peas, electronic music composer NTO puts on a dizzying show.

Although the risk of thunderstorms threatened the Paléo Festival for the first evening of the 2023 edition, the audience was not intimidated. As usual, festival-goers flocked to all the stages from the very first concerts, and did their artists proud. At 1am, at the foot of the sumptuous Belleville too. Decked out in blue and green this year, the electro corner welcomed NTO, a digital musician who transported his audience into 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 absorbent cotton and LEDs in the colors of the Italian flag swirls through the crowd, perfectly representing the mood of this concert. Firmly planted on its stick, the cloud moves with the rhythm, rising and falling gently at first. When the rhythm quickens 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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