Category: Music Events

Faraldo, Carrasco, Rojas-Marcos at Taller Ventalló Barcelona, 21-5-2016

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Paloma Carrasco, violoncel,  Ángel Faraldo, meta-no-input-mixer,  Alejandro Rojas-Marcos, clavicordi.  Welcome to the fascinating world of playing with noise and silence, and getting sounds from nowhere, from a mixer with no inputs!! Yeah, I know, not for everybody: but nevertheless a great trip once you get used to it and you learn how to interpretate it. Just amazing stuff!! Taller Ventalló Barcelona, 21-5-2016

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COÀGUL al Niu, Barcelona, 12-11-2015.

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RECOVERING GREAT STUFF: Presentació del flexi disc “Cobriu-me de flors” a l’espai artístic El Niu. El video recull la performance complerta. Gran actuació de Marc O’Callaghan. COÀGUL is the muzak organ of Marc O’Callaghan. Its main function is to concentrate the energy of certain cosmic principles in the physical spot where its sound is performed or reproduced.

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Alguns Homes Bons al LEM, L’Hangar, 23-10-2015

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Pol Padrós (trumpet,) Joan Mas (alto sax), Marcel Bagés (electric guitar), Àlex Reviriego (bass), Genís Bagés (drums) Alguns Homes Bons is among the best avantgarde jazz bands you can listen to in the burstling Barcelona scene. Unfortunately they don’t play too often, ’cause all of them are great musicians with their own career and other bands and projects. So you better don’t miss any opportunity to see them on stage. They’re just amazing.

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Kasper T. Toeplitz al LEM, L’Hangar, Barcelona, 23-10-2015

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Recovering great stuff. Kasper T. Toeplitz es un compositor y bajista polaco residente en París que se mueve entre la composición ortodoxa y la música electrónica ruidista. En este concierto en el LEM toca las piezas Elephant & Cat (composición propia) y Fluster (del desaparecido Zbignew Karkowski). His experimentation with computers continued, in 2003, with the creation of an instrument he calls the BassComputer, an electric bass with 5 fretted strings and 4 unfretted strings, as in the harp guitar. The instrument is intended to be interfaced with a computer.

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Blood Quartet, full set live, Barcelona, 21-11-2017, La2, Apolo

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Mark Cunningham (trumpet, guitar) Lluís Rueda (guitar, Korg MS-10) Kike Bela (bass, Korg MS-10, guitar) Càndid Coll (drums, voice) Set list: “Dragon Tree” + “String Theory” + “Dark Energy” + “Bloodlines” + “Gravity Pull” + “Fire Folk” + “Purple Star Coffin” + “Until My Darkness Goes” + “Wreck Jandek” https://bloodquartet.bandcamp.com/ Foto: Òscar García. Video de El Arranzio

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The Legendary Pink Dots at Almo2bar Barcelona, 14-10-2017, LEM Festival

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The Legendary Pink Dots at Almo2bar Barcelona, 14-10-2017, LEM Festival Edward Ka-Spel, vocals, lyrics, keyboards; Phil Knight, keyboards; Erik Drost, guitar And the legend finally crossed the festival during the night of October the 14th at the Almo2bar. The band leaded by Edward Ka-Spel and Phil Knight, one of the powerful diamonds that crystallised in the sonic explosion of the 80s, offered an impeccable concert with a review across some of their emblematic songs, those little evil anthems, and they demonstrated to be in top shape. Fans arrived from everywhere filled the venue and contributed to a unique and multifaceted ceremony by the Legendary Pink Dots.

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Fame Chimica, Performance a Antic Teatre, 28-11-2017

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Visual Pal , Sheila M Espelt,  Jennifer M Espelt,  Primo Gabbiano. Fame Chimica es un grupo híbrido de arte contemporáneo especializado en acciones performánticas, instalaciones audiovisuales y arte, formado por Paloma Sánchez, Sheila Moreno, Jennifer Moreno y Antonio Clavijo. Artistas visuales y sonoros, comisarios artísticos y diseñadores gráficos que muestran diferentes formas contemporáneas de entender la realidad. Antonio Clavijo Victori es un músico y artista visual de Barcelona que como Primo Gabbiano explora la faceta más experimental de la música, utilizando drones, paisajes sonoros, noise, ambient y electrónica primitiva. Su puesta en escena es marcadamente visual, y muy cercana a la instalación. Paloma Sánchez Castaño es Visual Pal, artista visual de Barcelona. Su carrera artística se desarrolla en la realización de piezas videográficas, instalaciones audiovisuales y directos como VJ.

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Judith Cunillera & Miquel Jordà, at Porta Roja al Poble Sec Barcelona, 10-12-2017

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The masques of Judith Cunillera and the sounds of Miquel Jordà. The masques were done in Perú by Judith using refuse materials collected at the biggest dump of Perú. Miquel Jordà plays “La casa del fin del mundo” at the opening for the exhibition “Entre dos mundos ” by Judith Cunillera, at Porta Roja al Poble Sec, Barcelona, 10-12-2017.

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ElèctroX: Mark Cunningham & Miquel Jordà at Sinestesia, Barcelona, 19-09-2017

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Duo of trumpeter Mark Cunningham and saxonphonist Miquel Jordà. Two electronically processed wind instruments engaged in a musical discourse rich in phrase and nuance. Cunningham and Jordá, two improvisational veterans reunited in this new project. ElèctroX “…Music without age, nationality, papers or obligations – free and carefree. The Valencian marks the coordinates and the New Yorker, the depth. Sax and trumpet elevated into a cosmic procession with echoes of Bezet…” Nando Cruz – El Periodico de Catalunya – July 2017 https://electroxmusic.tumblr.com/  

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