WIZARD'S EYES
The bewitched eyes of this band's gaze - Ojos de Brujo - transform the fruits of keen observation into magic through lyrics that constantly denoune the world's injustices.
The original idea wasn't to form a band; they started as a group of friends meeting for jam sessions and then somebody recorded them. Currently they are 18 musicians performing in their natural live medium.
Their melodies show continuous experimentation - they've got their fingers in genres such as hip hop, funk, electronic or tango - but alwais from a fundamental base of flamenco, the sound running through their veins.
They self-manage, editing and producing their own albums with their record lavel, La Fabrica de Colores, and this allows them to be totally independent and to make the music that they like.
Their next concert in BArcelona will be on the 6th of October.
THE KID THAT CAME FROM HELL
The kid is Barcelonés and a former street cleaner born in Santa Coloma who composed sweeping the streets of El Carmelo. His lowly initiation came playing in bars and in the street with his guitar and a cap for coins. And noy wome call him the new sensation of the "Sonido Barcelona".
His album "Vamos que nos vamos" is inspired by the streets, the music is spontaneous and charismatic like him, Jairo, el muchacho. He's an atypical magnetic personage making him a powerful figure on the stage - each concert is different with plenty of surprises. Experiencing one of his concerts is synonymous with entertainment, guaranteed - you don't even ever know how long it will last.
His lyrics speak of the marginalized living on the borders of law, his mestizo sounds fuse rumba with swing, hip hop or the rollo latino that reminds me of Manu Chao.
DALE ESTOPA!
Two brothers from Cornellá, former employees of the SEAT factory, make up this BCN band. They make music full of energy, intermingling rumba, reggae, rock, rap and bossa nova - and these are just a few of the styles that they dip into. They're considered difficult to categorize, but they have put rumba back to the place where it deserves; they have giveng calorro its more romantic dimension.
They are charnegos and don't feel Catalan, but rather citizens of the world. Their songs are essentially costumbrista and conscious of class, due to their background. They grew up in their father's bar; Los Chichos marked their childhood because of the cassettes that their father used to play at every moment.
In the titles of their songs, like "Tu calorro", "Cacho a Cacho" and "La raja de tu falda" - the song that made them famous. you feel the freshness, the argot vocabulary transmits buen rollo. They speak streetspeak, from the suburbs more cañi, so if you want to learn real Spanish, you must learn Estopa.
They play in Barcelona (or rather, Badalona) on the 14th of October.
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