The Poble Sec neighborhood has a close relationship with music, since a large number of artists have come from there from the historic Raquel Meller to more recent ones like Serrat, Sisa, La Salseta, just to name a few. Maybe that’s why the Albareda Cultural CenterIn this district, he usually dedicates a large part of his programming to it and, for this quarter, he prepares new surprises for us in the form of documentaries, concerts and talks. All these events are totally free, although capacity is limited and prior reservation is essential. Let’s hit play and get ready to enjoy music of all kinds of styles.
Documentaries and emerging groups
Today the cycle begins Musical Documentary with the projection of Fly Sound (6.30 pm), which starts in the neighborhood in the 60s to explain the history of the legendary instrument amplifiers and the rock group Los Salvajes, as well as addresses the birth of the pioneering rock bands in Barcelona. Its director, Nando Caballero, will participate in this session. The second proposal is Children we are all, (April 22, 6.30 p.m.) focused on the initiatory journey that the ascending Niño de Elche made through Bolivia. There he approached various social and musical realities that led him to reflect on his life and his art. Previously, there will be a performance by La Chunga, winner of the audience award at the Brot festival, in an intimate concert with guitarist Kevin Lisbona. This retrospective closes with Octaves (April 29, 7:00 p.m.), which explores the power of music to transform lives and activate our emotional memory and has the intervention of singer-songwriters such as Jorge Drexler or Fermín Muguruza. As an aperitif, Màrius Alfambra will perform, presenting his first solo album, Resistance songs, a set of protest songs of folk, soul, country and blues performed with acoustic guitar and voice.
In May the cycle arrives La Carbonera, in which we can discover the groups that rehearse every week at the center and that they will show us the fruit of their work, always at 8 pm. The first will be the Allergic to Pollen (May 7), six young girls who understand music as a way to communicate with the world and explain their empowered stories of struggle, feminism and neighborhood life. Combine pop, rumba, rock and other styles and they define themselves as “singer-songwriters with a march”.
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On May 14 it is the turn of the singer, songwriter and producer Laura Valls, which will present My animal form, ten songs about desire, intimacy, the search for the essence and the questioning of capitalism. She will be accompanied by the pianist Juan Ise who contributes his keyboards and synthesizers to bring his songs to electro-folk experimentation, between the author song and urban rhythms. The last date is Friday May 21 with a very exotic band, Alaturca Barcelona, a traditional Ottoman music group created by singer Güldeniz Akpolat to connect the two sides of the Mediterranean combining the oriental flavor of Anatolia with the festive atmosphere of Barcelona. Classical, folkloric and gypsy themes with unusual traditional Turkish instruments that will surprise us.
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Talks and more concerts
Also in May begins Musically speaking, composed of a series of conversations and musical sessions to reflect on this art, always at 7:30 p.m. The first will be on the 19th of that month, when the writer Miriam Cano will talk about the close relationship between music and poetry through singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith or Françoise Hardy. The exhibition on Mars organized by the CCCB will serve as an excuse for two sessions. In the first (May 19), Xavier Riembau (DJ Diego Armando) will explain the content of the disc Golden Record, sent in 1977 to outer space to carry a message to possible interstellar civilizations. How was the selection of those songs made and what were they? The next day, Thursday May 20, Sarah Ardite, chronicler, music selector and editor of the project Suspicious Music will immerse us in the exciting world of invented universes, from the Afrofuturism of Sun Ra to the electronipona of the Red Planet, traveling to the time of the pharaohs, where there was already talk of the existence of planets. The last session (May 27) will reunite the singer Suu with the communication manager of the Luup Records label, Mari Lane. They will both chat about the importance these days of sharing musical content on social networks and how to interact with the public through them.
The Concerts in the Patio will arrive in June to take advantage of the milder weather and will start on day 4 with Bakanoa (8pm), a band that transmits the joy and passion of Colombia and Panama with traditional and Caribbean instruments to dance cumbias non-stop. On the 10th (from 6 to 9 p.m.), the aforementioned Sarah Ardite, now in DJ functions, will offer a practical session of basic techniques of this specialty with a puncture open to participation.
Mancha ‘e platano (Friday, June 11, 8 p.m.) is a group that fuses percussion, song, poetry and dance de la bomba, an Afro-descendant rhythm that comes from the sugar estates of Puerto Rico in the sixteenth century. Songs and rhythms that tell us about the stories of women and slavery. Radical style change on Friday June 18 (7pm) with DJ Virginie aka Vir, a session of sound system with a Venezuelan-born DJ specialized in mixing funk, breakbeats and hip-hop, who will join Martin Claro, an Argentine sound engineer who has developed a system with minimalist airs.
Other musical activities
In addition to these cycles, there will be other activities related to music such as the Menorcan concert Guiem Soldevila (Saturday, April 17, 7:45 p.m.) included in the BarnaSants. He will present his new work, a concept album with new registers and atmospheres, metaphor, in which addresses real and current problems. On Friday the 30th of this month and on June 1 (both, at 7:00 p.m.) we will have the performance of Do D’Acords, the Children’s and Youth Orchestra of the neighborhood with the students and invited musicians. On May 22 the Concertem solidarity recital (5pm) to promote the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities through music. The acoustic music group Blue Moon will liven up the session with their versions of rock classics from the 60s to the 80s. And, finally, on June 12 they will join the Symphony Festival (6pm), a simultaneous concert in a hundred emblematic places in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. Students from the Escola de Músics and JPC del Raval will perform in this center with choirs and modern music combos. A term to discover music in its many variants.
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