The new music station arrives in Barcelona loaded with new music, of which Cruïlla Primavera offers a selection to warm up your engines with our sights set on the summer and the great festivals that loom in the distance. The seventh installment of the musical cycle will offer seven concerts with electronic, indie and Catalan pop as sound axes.
From the Arab heart of Paris comes Acid Arab, an old electronic group known on the Barcelona scene that will be in charge of opening the cycle at the Apolo room on March 14 with the presentation of Trois, a compendium of club music by Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho, responsible for that Musique de France that revolutionized the dance floors in 2016 with the fusion of synthesizers and music with Arabic roots.
The Roba estesa from Tarragona, one of the most requested bands at popular festivals, will take over at Apolo itself to present De lo bo, lo millor (March 21), the fourth album by this all-female group that celebrates 10 years of career with a reflection on the difficulties that their generation must face, the one that crosses the border of the 30s between job insecurity, feminine demands and – not to be missed – the pop party that characterizes them, with electronic rhythms and collaborations by La Furia, Tremenda Jauría and Antònia Font.
From Argentina comes Peces Raros, an electronic rock duo formed by Lucio Consolo and Marco Viera who visit 2 de Apolo on April 5 (they already went through the last Cruïlla festival) on the last dates of presentation of Dogma, fourth album by the people from La Plata. in a trance key that will present a new album this year after passing through the legendary Luna Park in Buenos Aires in May.
On the same day, but in the Wolf room, the electronic-sounding pop of Carmen 113 will sound, a veteran group from Girona that presents Diva, the latest work in the same indie key that characterizes Jaume Nadal and company, in charge of making “sad songs to dance to.” ”, as they themselves define their music, inherited from artists such as Vetusta Morla, Leiva or Love of Lesbian.
Also presenting a new album Ginestà, or what is the same, the brothers Júlia and Pau Serrasolsas, who present on Paral·lel 62 (April 12) Vida meva, fourth album that delves into the sweetened pop through which the accelerated career of this duo from the Barcelona neighborhood of Sant Andreu. In their new work they sing about love and heartbreak with the company of Niña Polaca, Triquell, Maria Hein and Maio, sister of the musical couple, a work with two sides that reflect the end of a relationship and the subsequent life, where the love stops being romantic to embrace family and friends. All wrapped in Júlia's silky voice as the signature of some songs that have increased in pulses to make the increasingly large audience that gathers at the couple's concerts dance.
Another couple, although in this case friends, are Figa Flawas, who have already sold out tickets to celebrate La calçotada, Xavier Cartanyà and Pep Velasco's second album where calçots and romescu are the excuse for a musical display in which you can find reggaeton, trap, rumba, bachata and even a tumbado corrido lined up by the Stay Homas. A reflection of the compositional muscle of this pair of friends from Valls who have not missed the opportunity to remember Raimon and collaborate with Lluís Gavaldà.
The musical journey of Cruïlla Primavera will conclude on April 25 with Dope D.O.D., a trio of rappers from the Netherlands formed by Skits Vicious, Jay Reaper and Dopey Rotten, dark hip hop with Anglo-African roots mixed with electronics that will resonate in the 2 of Razzmatazz as the last stop before the Cruïlla festival, next July 10 at the Fòrum.
