Ana Tijoux ★★★★✩
Place and date: Apollo (9/III/2924)
Almost ten years have passed between Ana Tijoux's previous album and the current one, Vida. A long time in which the French-Chilean living in Barcelona has not been inactive on the artistic level, undertaking works such as the Roja y Negro project; and that on her personal level it has been marked, in addition to the upbringing of her two children, by the death of people very close to her.
Vital experiences that, together with the political commitment that she has always displayed, fuel the new songbook that she presented at Paral·lel, where the singer, rapper and author appeared in the company of Raúl Moya (bass, synthesizers), Federico Rocha (keyboards ) and Nicolás Castillo (drums). First steps of a presentation tour that will take her to various countries in Europe and the Americas during March and April.
The sharp verse, but also the melodic instinct and heart, emerged in an hour and a half of gig. In addition to a good part of the numbers of her new production, Ana Tijoux took us through such remarkable examples of her most storied career as, among others, Shock, a splendid reading from 1977 and the always necessary feminist manifesto that is Antipatriarca, leaving for the intense round of encores the no less indispensable Antifa dance.
As for the most recent material, things could not have gone better, as became clear very soon with the infectious Niñx, followed by the appreciable Millonaria. To highlight, a little further along in the program unfolded on Saturday night, Cora's accomplished pop bias, or the virtues of the title track of her album, with its magnificent and finally irresistible soul and jazzy edges, to face more later a more old school coordinate through the rotunda Tu sae.
The satin cadence of Tania, dedicated to the memory of her sister who died in 2019, the vindication of a joyful singleness in Dancing Alone Thus, and that End of the World where, faced with the imminence of disaster, she proposes that we “dance naked together”, They also feature in the highlights of the session.
