Colombians Morat have become a regular presence in Barcelona with their energetic love songs. This Wednesday they returned to say goodbye to Les Nits de Barcelona with the hits collected on the four albums they have released in their career, the last one, Si ayer fuera hoy, released last 2022, with special prominence in an evening that filled the entire auditorium of the Palau de Pedralbes, eighth sold out of a festival through which more than 38,000 people have passed to witness the 27 concerts held in 25 evenings.
On a night blessed by fresh air, the quartet of friends made up of Juan Pablo Isaza Piñeros, Juan Pablo Villamil Cortés and the brothers Simón and Martín Vargas Morales, all between the ages of 27 and 29, took the stage at 10 p.m. with the chords of Kisses in war, a summary of what the night was going to bring. The song co-written with Juanes got the mostly young audience to its feet that filled the stands, and who ignored the seats for almost the entire concert, chanting the songs of the Bogotá band when not shouting them directly.
Accompanied by keyboards and secondary guitar, the band performed in rigorous black with Villamil wearing the hat with the feather that identifies him on a sober stage with three giant screens and an effective set of lights.
Isaza's accelerated banjo gave way to 506, a theme that, like the previous one, they presented together with Juanes. "Barcelona!", he shouted after Al Aire's rocking guitar solo to ask for the support of an audience that didn't need instructions. The pop melodies followed one another to accompany the rhythm of the drums, stories of white love, references for all audiences asking that "please don't go when the sun rises".
"If yesterday were today, one would see more instruments on stage," Villamil said before singing the ballad Segundos platos, remembering that this was the last concert of his tour to continue with the country rhythm of Aprender a quererte, with Simón Vargas circling while he played bass.
The band did not stop playing with the public, asking for their choirs, their clapping or the light of their cell phones as they did in I should have guessed it, opening the slower phase of the recital with Punto y aparte and Mi suerte, performed by Martín Vargas (to whom yesterday the public sang happy birthday to him) while he kept playing the drums. And it is that this formation, which prides itself on making all decisions democratically, distributes the leading role of the voice among the four components.
My luck brought the audience back to their feet, singing the song that put the band in the sky in 2016, wondering "why do we keep playing dice" to lower the speed again with I don't deserve to come back and If the you see. Juan Pablo Isaza then took center stage to interpret Fall in love with someone else, himself on guitar explaining a love breakup that occurred during a previous visit to Barcelona.
The waters returned to the most festive course with A Donde vamos and Cuando el amor se escape, the latter to the voice of bassist Simón Esparza. Isaza recovered the ukulele in No se va, a rhythm one step away from reggaeton followed by Cuando nadie ve and Amor con hielo, sung from beginning to end by the entire audience. It was the beginning of a finale that put the resistance of the stands to the test with the autotune "made in Duki" by Paris, Llamada perdida and the long-awaited How Dare You, prolonged to the delight of the public, who said goodbye to the band with a long applause celebrating a night for the fans that augurs many more successes for the Colombians.
