Iggy Pop releases ‘The Passenger (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival)’ through earMUSIC today.
On July 6th, 2023 Iggy Pop returned to the Montreux Jazz Festival backed by a seven-piece band and thrilled a capacity Stravinski Auditorium crowd with a career-spanning set including tracks from his time with The Stooges, his Idiot and Lust for Life albums, New Values leading up to his recent release Every Loser.
There has never been an artist on stage quite like Iggy Pop and here he has never been better. With a band as versatile and acrobatic as the artist himself, there is everything from the glorious primitivism of Stooges-era ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ and ‘T.V. Eye,’ the swagger of ‘Lust for Life,’ the precise metronomic drone of ‘Nightclubbing,’ and the full-on unleashed rock fury of the recent ‘Modern Day Ripoff’ and ‘Frenzy.’
‘Stravinsky Hall is special, like Carnegie or the Graden or Sydney Opera. I’ve dived them all.’
– Iggy Pop –
Access ‘The Passenger’ HERE
It marked Iggy’s third appearance at the festival and his monumental performance was recorded and filmed by the Montreux Jazz Festival team. The concert will be available as a Blu-ray+CD Digipak, 2 LP Gatefold, and digital download on January 24th, 2025 worldwide via earMUSIC.
This most comprehensive live collection catches up with Iggy as he continues to win over generations of new fans and perform at the highest level his lifelong devotees have come to expect.
Pre-order ‘Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2023′ HERE