The Crumbs ★★★
Place and date: Jardins del Palau
of Pedralbes (3/VII/2023)
Sold-out at the Les Nits festival in Barcelona, still in the first stage of its first edition. The protagonists of the night were Las Migas, a cast distinguished with the Latin Grammy for best flamenco music album for Libres, the fifth album of their career, written during the pandemic, and which they have edited on their own. Marta Robles (guitar), Alicia Grillo (guitar), Laura Pacios (violin) and the singer Carolina La Chispa performed accompanied by a bassist and a drummer. A team that was punctually joined by a very pregnant Andrea Motis, trumpeter and singer who interpreted together with them a stupendous and delicate Alba, a theme with words by Federico García Lorca that is part of the last LP of our artists.
The session had still started with natural light through La maleta, preceding the rumbeada Tu boca. At the third change, the songs of Libres began to parade, with a special mention for the festive El querer de una morena, introduced by a successful violin note in the country/bluegrass style and grafting of a garrotín.
Neither did La cantaora y su halo urbano or El mar, beautiful alegrías de Cádiz interlocked without bass or drums that would turn out to be the most flamenco number on the programme. It was followed by her most recent single, La desgana, which they published to celebrate the aforementioned Grammy.
The rich musical palette of the night took another turn when the two guitarists interpreted an arrangement of Asturias by Isaac Albéniz made by Marta Robles: a moment with its point of solemnity that the audience followed with reverent silence. Having reached this point, the gala entered into a fast-paced final segment that began with the extremely famous Tangos de la repompa that the staff chanted to their hearts content, with a pass through Me mueve el aire and a wild version of King Peret's sorceress Gypsy. The rumbero monarch was incarnated again in the medley at the end of the party (The night of the Hawaiian…), culminating in a beautiful allusion to the famous Despechá by Rosalía. An unblemished session, which they finished off with a new song from her latest album, in this case Antonia, as the only encore.
