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The dates may be subject to changes www.catalanarts.cat Follow us! @playcatalan /catalanarts Catalan bands to discover at Primavera Sound 2018
Primavera Sound is one of those “can’t miss” music festivals. The 2018 edition will again turn Barcelona into a music capital with a marathon of around 200 performances staged at several venues around the city. At this booklet we’re delighted to be presenting the 28 Catalonia-based bands. Be sure you don’t miss them!
Once again, we’re sponsoring its international meeting Primavera Pro, a great networking opportunity to meet with fellow professionals from the music industry during the festival.
We invite you to meet them during the “Botifarrada”, the welcome lunch for international and Catalan professionals at Primavera Pro organised by the Catalan Government’s Ministry of Culture, through the Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies and its internationalisation brand, Catalan Arts - Music. Join us on Wednesday 30th May at the CCCB!
If you want more information on a particular band, please do not hesitate to contact them directly, or turn to any of our offices –located in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris– for further assistance.
The Live Music Scene in Catalonia. Quick Facts & Figures: • 345 music festivals (Primavera Sound leading the list) • 209 public venues • 58 private venues • 4.500.000 audiences • 55.700.000 € turnover (Sources: Catalan Ministry of Culture, Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies, APM, ASACC, SGAE) 4 Primavera Sound 2018
Catalan Bands Lineup
05 Alicia Carrera 23 Miqui Puig 06 Bad Gyal 24 Mujeres 07 Damed Squad 25 Nightcrawler 08 Delorean 26 North State 09 DJ Coco 27 Núria Graham 10 El Último Vecino 28 O’o 11 Holy Bouncer 29 Olympic Flame 12 Indiespot DJ 30 Playback Maracas 13 Intana 31 Puput 14 John Talabot 32 The Crab Apples 15 La banda trapera del río 33 The Suicide of Western Culture 16 Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés 34 The Zephyr Bones 17 Marina Herlop 35 Xavier Calvet 18 Marion Harper 36 Za! Primavera Sound 2018 5
Alicia Carrera ELECTRONIC Saturday, June 02 18:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Desperados Club (Parc del Fòrum)
Somebody is playing unbelievably good music. There were perfectly placed whispers of kraut, as if the person responsible had spent time in Berlin. There were also elements of psychedelic, icy pop and hypnotic drones. The only clues that we had were in a Hivern Discs tote bag: a pen drive with lovely photos and graphics, very professional! Podcasts called Zauberstab and files with references www.mixcloud.com/ aliciacarrera from the Barcelona label that were @Aliciacarrera worthy of being owned by the label’s /aliciacarrerafoto manager… Suddenly a girl with a Galician/Catalan accent, stands up and Management Hivern Discs proudly confesses: “It was me”. Alicia Carrera [email protected] 6 Primavera Sound 2018
Bad Gyal Thursday, May 31 DANCEHALL 02:15 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum)
Nicest Cocky Puro Records Canadà 2017
How do you go in a year and a half from uploading a Catalan version of Rihanna’s Work on Youtube to being on the cover of Pitchfork? Send your theories to Alba Farelo, better known as Bad Gyal. She talks directly to those who have www.laeditorialdecanada. gotten into trap through twerking and com/artista/badgyal @akabadgyal celebrate the arrival of dancehall to the /akabadgyaloficial mainstream, those who want to shake their arses as a socio-political statement. Management Provocative aesthetics, first division Entre lineas Martin Boragno beats and lyrics with sentences in tweet [email protected] form: nowadays music is spread on the
Record label and press net but is danced in the streets. Canada www.laeditorialdecanada.com Borja Rosal [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 7
Damed Squad TRAP Saturday, June 02 17:40 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum)
El contrato Onovo Music 2017
Mishii, Lil Moss and Enry-K have charisma, credibility and the vibe. On their EP El Contrato you can feel the complicity of people who have spent countless silly hours together on the www.southsid3.com/ half-pipes in the park, taking the piss damed-squad out of everyone on the “sad” vibe, going /damedsquad crazy with southern trap, playing hip hop and electronic tracks to one another on their mobiles, fooling around to flex tunes, making fun of each other and Management Southside LTD those around them, ignoring the beef, www.southsid3.com trying to compose songs, looking for Jesús J. Amores their voice, dreaming for free. Damed [email protected] Squad have it, yeuh they have. 8 Primavera Sound 2018
Delorean Thursday, May 31 ELECTRONIC POP 16:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Auditori Rockdelux (Parc del Fòrum)
The fab four from Zarautz, currently based in Barcelona, have loads of experience. After years of opening horizons and competing around the world, Delorean is closing horizons and delving into the great legacy of the great master of music in Euskera, Mikel Laboa, the explicit inspiration behind the record which they will perform in its soundcloud.com/deloreandanz /dlrean entirety at the festival. And on this side of the mirror they are bathed in oblique
Management lights, with virgin sounds and… with the Live in Dallas more suggestive, personal and defined www.liveindallas.es Fernando Yáñez version of themselves. More local yet [email protected] more universal. Primavera Sound 2018 9
DJ Coco POP Saturday, June 02 04:15 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Ray-Ban (Parc del Fòrum)
After three days of record numbers of festival goers and visitors from all around the world, Abel Suárez always wraps up the festival with an intimate gesture reminding those near and far that this is nothing more and nothing less than the culmination of the dream of four music- loving friends from Barcelona. Lest we forget. That is why we do it every year. www.elsegell.com/dj-coco @diyeicoco The La (2) de Apolo resident DJ invites /djcoconitsa you to close the Saturday night with a false private party; a get-together among Management friends to which paradoxically everybody El Segell del Primavera www.elsegell.com is invited. And remember: don’t stop Farmway Records believin’. [email protected]
Fermín Lorente [email protected] 10 Primavera Sound 2018
El Último Vecino Friday, June 01 TECHNO POP 17:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Ray-Ban (Parc del Fòrum)
Dónde Estás Ahora Está Pasando / Canada Editorial / Club Social 2017
El Último Vecino (The Last Neihgbour) is a good name. Gerard Alegre’s project has that deep-seated oxymoron: danceable melancholy, sweet farewells and tears on the dance floor. The echo of guitars and accelerated drums shout euphoria, whilst the lyrics sing a beautiful requiem full of nostalgia. Now, after the validation marked by Voces in 2016, everything is elultimovecino.bandcamp. set for their third LP to be the culmination com of an ascension from underground music @ElUltimoVecino /ELULTIMOVECINO to the dizzy heights of synth pop. And with it, the feeling of a whole generation
Management which, despite everything, doesn’t want Canada to stop dancing. www.laeditorialdecanada.com Borja Rosal [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 11
Holy Bouncer PSYCHEDELIC ROCK Wednesday, May 30 17:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Primavera With Apple Music (Parc del Fòrum)
Coyote self-published 2017
Blessed are the bouncers, because they are the rulers of the nightclub. Holy Bouncer are the rulers of the kingdom of old school psychedelia, of rock with roots and of evil on acid. If Woodstock had taken place in the main park of Barcelona, these mighty Catalan guitar players would have been there to sign their pact with the devil with Ladies & Gentlemen (2014) and to renew it two years later with holybouncer.bandcamp.com @HolyBouncer Hippie Girl Lover. They are hitting the /holybouncer road again, to take the less trodden path of the antihero. It is impossible Management not to have sympathy for these devils. Holy Bouncer Miguel Robres [email protected] 12 Primavera Sound 2018
Indiespot DJ Saturday, June 02 INDIE ELECTRONIC 01: 30 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Radio Primavera Sound (Parc del Fòrum)
Intana Satélite K 2017
Six DJs from different countries share the same objective: to remember through hits the great pop, rock and indie anthems of the festival. Jonathan Villicaña (chief editor of Brutal Content) from Mexico and the people behind the club Karrera Klub from Berlin, the BBC radio 6 DJ presenter Jon Hillcock, the omnipresent Miqui Puig, the Italian selector Carlo Pastore www.indiespot.es and Indiespot DJ, directly from the @indiespot /indiespot.es musical web that is celebrating its tenth anniversary will be in charge of
Management responsible for making us dance, sing indiespot and remember those wonderful indie www.indiespot.es Aleix Ibars years. [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 13
Intana AMERICAN FOLK Sunday, June 03 14:30 h Primavera al Raval Sala Teatre (CCCB)
Intana Satélite K 2017
In the background, the sea breaking against the rocks, the sunlight glistening on the water, a lock of hair in the wind and the silhouette of a face with a faint smile. It feels like summer, or like a bright winter morning. A whiff of intimacy, a young voice with character, classicism, pop melodies, folk tradition, steel pedals, sweet piano arrangements, a rough outburst or two but in general an oasis intanamusic.com @intana_music of peace. Sung in Catalan and English, /intanamusic by Núria Moliner the soul of Intana
(accompanied by Guillem Callejón, Management Jordi Mestre and Ricard Parera), it is a Unpictured unpictured.es refreshing debut (Intana). José Miguel Garanto [email protected] 14 Primavera Sound 2018
John Talabot Saturday, June 02 ELECTRONIC 02:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Desperados Club (Parc del Fòrum)
Oriol Riverola from Barcelona, better known as John Talabot, has for a few years now started a new tradition with his closing set on the Saturday. Sometimes incognito, and others as a last minute incorporation, one thing is sure at John Talabot’s end of party session at Primavera Sound: disco will be the name of the game. Shaped by thousands of nights of techno and house, and about soundcloud.com/john-talabot to release his anticipated second album, @JohnTalabot /JohnTalabot.JT here Riverola let’s loose celebrating analogical dance and electronic music
Management before it was what we now know as Live in Dallas electronic. And so do we. www.liveindallas.es Fernando Yañez [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 15
La Banda Trapera Del Río PUNK ROCK Friday, June 01 23:30 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Adidas Original (Parc del Fòrum)
1978/1982. Grabaciones completas Munster 2006
Almost forty years later if you play Ciutat podrida, A mi dosis voy, and Nacido del polvo del borracho y del coño de una puta for somebody without warning they could still end up spontaneously spitting out their herbal tea in shock. They are not songs, they are live wires. La Banda Trapera del Río can still get under your skin, which is almost the best thing you can say about any original punk legend. Their trapera.blogspot.com @LaBandaTraperaR explosive songbook is a source of /Banda.Trapera pride for everyone from Barcelona and for all rock lovers who consider sound Management short-circuits as music. Producciones Vikingas produccionesvikingas.com David López [email protected] 16 Primavera Sound 2018
Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés Wednesday, May 30 FOLK 18:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Auditori Rockdelux (Parc del Fòrum)
45 cerebros y un corazón Fina Estampa 2017
They get you with the very first line of 45 cerebros y un corazón and by the time they get to “Adquiéreme, adquiéreme” you are head over heels in love with Maria and Marcel. Daring adaptations of the folklore, of texts by Ovidi Montllor, Joan Brossa and Vicent Andrés Estellés and self-penned www.maimb.cat @mariaarnaldimas / words that seem to have been waiting @marcel_bages a lifetime to be activated. Maria’s /mariaarnalimarcelbages edgy voice and the totally free guitar
Management of Marcel say many things, primarily Fina Estampa that tradition cannot be understood www.finaestampa.es Gerardo Sanz without the avant garde and that [email protected] revolution cannot be understood without love (and vice versa). Primavera Sound 2018 17
Marina Herlop CLASSICAL-AVANT GARDE Sunday, June 03 15:30 h Primavera al Raval Sala Teatre (CCCB)
Nanook Instrumental Records 2016
On a sea of classical piano with constant bursts of spontaneity, Marina Herlop’s melodies float with the gracefulness of the best literature. She does use words, but they are invented, they belong to a language that only exists in her imagination and in the emotions that she transmits to the piano. The result is hypnotic, elusive and marinaherlop.com @marinaherlop comforting, a protective cloak. It is totally /marinaherlop understandable then that James Rhodes decided to launch his label Instrumental Management Records with Nanook, the first chapter of Mireia Madroñero the fascinating world of Marina Herlop. mireia.madroñ[email protected] Record label and booking Aloud Music Sergio Picón [email protected] 18 Primavera Sound 2018
Marion Harper Wednesday, May 30 ELECTRONIC POP 13:30 h Primavera Pro Day Pro (CCCB)
Friday, June 01 17:40 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum)
Hydraganea Luup Records 2017 Sometimes, the title of an album perfectly explains what you will find there:Cotton Candy (2015), Marion Harper’s letter of introduction, used bright, sweet and unapologetically contemporary electropop to make a place for herself among the promising artists of her generation. Hydraganea (2017), can be seen as the gloomy side of that debut. It is a transformation thanks to which this luup.cat/marion-harper Barcelona-based Uruguayan artist is now @MarionHarper_ /marionharpermusic closer to Lorde: icy atmospheres and dreamy synthesisers dominate, at the
Management service of a mesmerising performance Luup Records which is already gaining international www.luup.cat Meri Lane audience. [email protected]
TUESDAY, MAY 29
Za! (post world music) Apolo Venue (Primavera als Clubs) 20:45 h
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
Marion Harper (electronic pop) Day Pro (Primavera Pro - CCCB) 13:30 h The Zephyr Bones Day Pro (psychedelic rock) (Primavera Pro - CCCB) 14:20 h
North State (electronic pop) Day Pro (Primavera Pro - CCCB) 15:10 h Holy Bouncer Primavera With Apple Music (psychedelic rock) (Parc del Fòrum) 17:00 h Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés Auditori Rockdelux (folk) (Parc del Fòrum) 18:00 h
THURSDAY, MAY 31
Delorean (electronic pop) Auditori Rockdelux (Parc del Fòrum) 16:00 h The Zephyr Bones Pitchfork (psychedelic rock) (Parc del Fòrum) 17:40 h
O'o (electronic) Night Pro (Parc del Fòrum) 18:00 h Nightcrawler Bacardí Live (synthwave-darksynth) (Parc del Fòrum) 18:30 h
Za! (post world music) Adidas Originals (Parc del Fòrum) 20:05 h
Bad Gyal (dancehall) Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum) 02:15 h
FRIDAY, JUNE 01
El Último Vecino (techno pop) Ray-Ban (Parc del Fòrum) 17:00 h
Marion Harper (electronic pop) Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum) 17:40 h Playback Maracas Bacardí Live (psychedelia) (Parc del Fòrum) 18:30 h La Banda Trapera del Río Adidas Original (punk rock) (Parc del Fòrum) 23:30 h Miqui Puig Radio Primavera Sound (indie electronic) (Parc del Fòrum) 03:15 h SATURDAY, JUNE 02 Núria Graham Ray-Ban (alternative indie) (Parc del Fòrum) 17:00 h
Damed Squad (trap) Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum) 17:40 h
Alicia Carrera (electronic) Desperados Club (Parc del Fòrum) 18:00 h Indiespot DJ Radio Primavera Sound (indie electronic) (Parc del Fòrum) 01:30 h
John Talabot (electronic) Desperados Club (Parc del Fòrum) 02:00 h
Mujeres (garage-rock) Adidas Original (Parc del Fòrum) 03:20 h
DJ Coco (pop) Ray-Ban (Parc del Fòrum) 04:15 h
SUNDAY, JUNE 03 Xavier Calvet Sala Teatre (pop-folk) (Primavera al Raval - CCCB) 13:30 h
The Crab Apples (pop-rock) Barcelona (Primavera al Raval) 14:00 h Intana Sala Teatre (american folk) (Primavera al Raval - CCCB) 14:30 h
Olympic Flame (indie) Barcelona (Primavera al Raval) 15:00 h Marina Herlop Sala Teatre (classical avant-grade) (Primavera al Raval - CCCB) 15:30 h Puput Sala Teatre (alternative-indie) (Primavera al Raval - CCCB) 16:40 h The Suicide Of Western Culture Barcelona (psychedelic rock) (Primavera al Raval) 21:00 h
North State (electronic pop) Apolo Venue (Primavera als Clubs) 22:30 h
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Miqui Puig INDIE ELECTRONIC Friday, June 01 03:15 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Radio Primavera Sound (Parc del Fòrum)
Six DJs from different countries share the same objective: to remember through hits the great pop, rock and indie anthems of the festival. Jonathan Villicaña (chief editor of Brutal Content) from Mexico and the people behind the club Karrera Klub from Berlin, the BBC radio 6 DJ presenter Jon Hillcock, the omnipresent Miqui Puig, the Italian selector Carlo Pastore and Indiespot DJ, directly from the musical web that is celebrating its www.miquipuig.com @miquipuig tenth anniversary will be in charge of /MIQUIPUIGFC responsible for making us dance, sing and remember those wonderful indie Management Buenritmo years. Jordi Ramírez [email protected] 24 Primavera Sound 2018
Mujeres Saturday, June 02 GARAGE-ROCK 03:20 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Adidas Originals (Parc del Fòrum)
Un sentimiento importante Sonido Muchacho 2017
Are there women (“mujeres”) in the lineup? Of course! There are women and there’s Mujeres. This Barcelona band had to be in the lineup this year. Because Un sentimiento importante (An important feeling) is an album that does honour to its title. Because it’s an anthem that creates a spirit of fraternity and because it is vital that, with so many bands taking themselves so seriously, Yago, Pol and Arnau have mujeres.bandcamp.com a laugh… make us laugh. Because /mujerestheband after ten years of fooling around, their Management uninhibited garage is no longer just a Sonido Muchacho flash in the pan, but a way of life. www.sonidomuchacho.com Luís Fernández [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 25
Nightcrawler SYNTHWAVE - DARKSYNTH Thursday, May 31 18:30 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Bacardí Live (Parc del Fòrum)
Beware of the Humans Electronic Purifications Records 2017
John Carpenter was the first to sense that four strategically placed synth notes would infect the whole future of horror film music. Georges Gold, better known as Nightcrawler, testifies this from his base in Lleida. His vintage electronic music is dark and minimalist, analogical and intriguing. Neon melodies pierce the insomnia of Beware of the Humans, the latest album by this mysterious nightcrawlermusic.com @GeorgeGold79 creator of atmospheres, visions and /nightcrawlermusic emotions. We could call it retro wave, but it is happening now. We celebrate Management Halloween every year don’t we? Nightcrawler www.nightcrawlermusic.com Joan Oró [email protected] 26 Primavera Sound 2018
North State Wednesday, May 30 ELECTRONIC POP 15:10 h Primavera Pro Day Pro (CCCB)
Sunday, June 03 22:30 Primavera als Clubs Apolo Venue
Can’t Forget You Club Ruido 2017
You see the name. You check out a few of their videos, such as Can’t Forget You. You listen to another track, I Know You. No, they didn’t came out of the United States or Australia. Yes, they are the latest sensation in electronic pop, but they are from Figueres (Girona) and they are a collaboration between /northstateofficial Laia Vehí and her little brother, Pau. It’s
Management as simple as that. That is globalization: Álvaro Gutiérrez furiously contemporary with influences [email protected] that include Chet Faker, Flume, James Blake and The xx, North State play auto-tune, future bass synth, elegant drops and bursts of colour. Primavera Sound 2018 27
Núria Graham ELECTRONIC POP Saturday, June 02 17:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Ray-Ban (Parc del Fòrum)
Does It Ring A Bell? El Segell del Primavera 2017
If reincarnation exists, Núria Graham is somebody who has lived several lives. We know that her latest one has her in Vic (Barcelona) in her very early twenties, but in the depth of her third album Does It Ring A Bell? we discover snippets that go much further back. www.nuriagraham.com @nuriagraham With the americana folk rock rhythm /nuriagrahammusic of Cass McCombs passing through the warmth of Mac DeMarco and the Management emotional elegance of Angel Olsen. Lizard queen Music www.lizardqueenmusic.com Her intoxicating intimacy reveals an Maria Blay artist that shines in every step that she [email protected] takes. We are lucky that this time we Label and booking have lived it in first person. El Segell del Primavera www.elsegell.com Anna Romeu [email protected] 28 Primavera Sound 2018
O’o Thursday, May 31 ELECTRONIC 18:00 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Night Pro (Parc del Fòrum)
Until today, O’o was the name of an extinct bird which the ancient Hawaiian kings adored. But now, the union of those two twin circular vowels is another rara avis: the duo formed by the Barcelona-based French artists Victoria Suter and Mathieu Daubigné. An intriguing project in which Suter’s captivating and unclassifiable voice becomes another instrument in the o-o-music.bandcamp.com electronic fabric woven by the samples @MohoBraccatus /mohobraccatus and elusive harmonies encapsulated in the six tracks of the EP Spells (2018).
Management A fascinating sound that led O’o to mohobraccatusmusic@ be proclaimed the winner of the 2018 gmail.com edition of Bala Perduda and to perform at Primavera Pro. Primavera Sound 2018 29
Olympic Flame INDIE Sunday, June 03 15:00 h Primavera al Raval Barcelona
Voyager Hidden Track Records 2017
The most restless ears have been predicting it since the beginning of this year: the Barcelona band Olympic Flame are heading straight for the podium of discoveries in the 2018 musical Olympic Games. After four years of warming up, they are more than ready to run that marathon. They wouldn’t pass an anti- doping test if the police were looking for poignant synthesisers, triathlonic instrumentations (long live the cello!), olympicflame.bandcamp.com small indie achievements and tracksuits /olympicflameband with ambient stripes… but don’t they look great? EPO for the soul. Shoots like an Management arrow. Hidden Track Records www.hiddentrackrecords.com Louise Samson [email protected] 30 Primavera Sound 2018
Playback Maracas Friday, June 01 PSYCHEDELIA 18:30 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Bacardí Live (Parc del Fòrum)
If you try to find an album, an EP or just a studio single by Playback Maracas, you won’t find anything. But if you look on YouTube you will find quite a few videos of these nutters from Mataró (Barcelona) with their Hawaiian shirts, playing live surrounded by keyboards, synthesizers and a double neck guitar. That is how Álex and Eloi want to introduce themselves to the world. Robotic voices, loops, disco moves, generous arrangements with pop @PlaybackMaracas /playbackmaracas rock moments and explosions of music to dance to, a little electro tropical rhythm
Management and lots of other stuff. Tons of fun! Cooncert.com www.cooncert.com Pau Corbalán [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 31
Puput ALTERNATIVE-INDIE Sunday, June 03 16:40 h Primavera al Raval Sala Teatre (CCCB)
In the oneiric pop by this quintet from Manresa one can make out forms, landscapes and still life paintings: a path in a poplar grove at daybreak, trench coats walking through the old quarter, still life in which organic forms come to life… Puput know that the fermenting agent that distills their music is special because it is dual: it is not only noise. It is their way of understanding the overlapping of these www.puputpuput.com @puputmanresa opposites. Note to self, refresh search /puput.puput.3760 for news about this band every day as each step they take is an event in itself. Management Eduard Serra [email protected] 32 Primavera Sound 2018
The Crab Apples Sunday, June 03 POP-ROCK 14:00 h Primavera al Raval Barcelona
Listening to each member of The Crab Apples separately is already thrilling in itself: the bass arrangements by Laia Martíare just what you would expect. Laia Alsina’s guitar is a free rhyme. In Mauro Cavallaro’s drums there is an echo, there is power and a careful attention to detail. And Carla Gimeno’s voice is a window to infinity. When you listen to it all together it is magic! @thecrabapples We all want to make friends with the /thecrabapples evocative pop of the quartet from Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana; we want Management Black Elephant them to tell us that they understand www.blackelephant.es that love is everything. Sergio Arribas [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 33
The Suicide Of Western Culture PSYCHEDELIC ROCK Sunday, June 03 21:00 h Primavera al Raval Barcelona
B-Map 1917 + 100 El Segell 2017
Fermin Muguruza isn’t somebody who avoids conflicts, in either politics or music. He never has. He always pushes the boundaries of his time or even his audience. After over thirty years of insubordinate ideas, Fermìn has joined up with the Barcelona duo The Suicide of Western Culture to explore new waters: those of industrial punk rock, thesuicideofwesternculture. com of electronic explosions and political @TSWCband song that destroys both geographical /TheSuicideOfWestern borders (almost all the points of Culture conflict in the world are addressed on Management this album) and stylistic barriers. El Segell del Primavera www.elsegell.com Carles Baena carles.baena@ primaverasound.com 34 Primavera Sound 2018
The Zephyr Bones Wednesday, May 30 PSYCHEDELIC ROCK 14:20 h Primavera Pro DayPro (CCCB)
Thursday, May 31 17:40 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Pitchfork (Parc del Fòrum)
Secret Place La Castanya 2017 Googles’ mathematical processes may predict what your next favourite band will be. The Zephyr Bones can. Google 0 - The Zephyr Bones 1. The Barcelona quartet originally from Chile has the prized formula to envelop you in an oasis of melancholic psychedelic thezephyrbones.bandcamp. surf pop that they have lovingly put com together. Although they started in @thezephyrbones /thezephyrbones 2015, it was not until the end of 2017 that they released their debut album,
Management Secret Place. Now they are ready to La Castanya invite us into that secret corner in www.lacastanya.com Joan Guàrdia which everything is calm and where [email protected] summer is a state of mind.
Albert Guàrdia [email protected] Primavera Sound 2018 35
Xavier Calvet ELECTRONIC POP Sunday, June 03 13:30 h Primavera al Raval Sala Teatre (CCCB)
Joie de vivre. That is the feeling that the photo on the cover of Firebird gives. Satisfaction, happiness and fulfilment. We were used to hearing Xavier Calvet shaking the sounds of punk rock as frontman of Bullitt. We would never have imagined him debuting solo with an album of such a xaviercalvetmusic. robust and healthy American sounding bandcamp.com @xaviercalvet pop (think The Long Winters, The /xaviercalvetmusic Jayhawks and Buffalo Tom and you’ll be on the right path). These compositions Management built around a folk-pop skeleton are To Be Confirmed www.tobeconfirmed.cat dense; it is powerful music, the sound Berta Ferrer of people who start each day with an [email protected] endless search for new emotions. 36 Primavera Sound 2018
Za! Tuesday, May 29 POST WORLD MUSIC 20:45 h Primavera als Clubs Apolo Venue
Thursday, May 31 20:05 h Primavera Sound Barcelona Adidas Originals (Parc del Fòrum)
Loloismo Gandula 2015 According to the musical purity police, over a million different musical styles meet on stage at every Za! concert. According to the organisers, in the case of Pau Rodríguez and Edu Pou, there is really only one: theirs. Because Za! are a style-band. What is true is that every song by the Barcelona www.losza.com duo should be accompanied by a @zamegaflow /putosza weather map that forecasts all the mood changes that they provoke. But
Management every unexpected crazy thing that they Gandula do makes all the sense in the world www.gandula.net Alfons Serra in their inimitable work in progress. [email protected] Unique in every sense of the word.
Edi Pou [email protected]
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