The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Wed 10 Sep 08

10pm at L’Auditori, Hall 3 Tete Montoliu ( Lepant, 150)  Free admission

This is a free activity organized by the Barcelona City Council as collaboration in the celebration of the “Twenty-five night.

The white night at TV3″ to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first broadcast. An overview of the musical creativity of the city will be offered through four bands selected by Emergents +aprop.

Performers

Versatile (pop psicodèlic)

Ruido Blanco (pop)

Son3 (latin jazz)

Just4Fun (funk groove)

Wed 10 Sep 08

“Balmoral” was a mythical and exclusive bar of Madrid. To inaugurate this new phase in their career, Loquillo surprises us with his better CD, that is a fusion of his recognized passion for the rock and roll, his admiration for composers and his weakness for the better crooner’s work. (Taken from www.auditori.org)

Tue 9 Sep 08

9:30pm at Palau Sant Jordi 28€ - 42€ Buy tickets

Juan Luis Guerra isa Dominican singer, songwriter, and self-producer who has sold over fourteen million records worldwide and has won numerous awards, including ten Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. He won five Latin Grammy awards in 2007 in the same night which ties him with Juanes to hold the record for most Latin Grammys won in one night.

He is one of the most internationally recognized Dominican artists in decades past. His pop style of Merengue and Bolero and Afro-pop/Latin fusion have garnered him considerable success outside the Dominican Republic.

(Taken from www.juanluisguerra.net and www.wikipedia.org)

Sat 6 Sep 08

9:30 pm at Palau Sant Jordi (Pg. Olímpic, 5-7) 45-50€ -SOLD OUT- Buy tickets

Coldplay are a rock band formed in London, England in 1997. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion. Coldplay have sold 33.9 million albums, and are also known for their hit singles, such as “Yellow”, “The Scientist”, “Speed of Sound”, “Fix You”, “Viva la Vida” and the Grammy Award-winning “Clocks”.

Coldplay achieved worldwide fame with the release of their single “Yellow”, followed by their debut album, Parachutes (2000), which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Its follow-up, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) won multiple awards such as NME’s Album of the Year and was later included on Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, ranking at #473.

Their next release, X&Y (2005), received a slightly less enthusiastic yet still generally positive reception. The band’s fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), was produced by Brian Eno and released again to largely favourable reviews. All of Coldplay’s albums have enjoyed great commercial success. (Taken from www.wikipedia.org).

Fri 5 Sep 08

10:30pm at Parc del Forum- Auditori Gran (Llevant, 2-4) Buy tickets

Manolo García is a Spanish singer and painter. His first LPs were recorded with rock bands like “Los Rápidos”, “Los Burros” and “El Último de la Fila”. His singing style is a mix of pop rock, flamenco and arabic music. Today, García continues to have a successful solo career.

His third album was “Para que no se duerman mis sentidos”. Now he is releasing his new album “Saldremos a la lluvia”. (Taken from www.wikipedia.org & www.servicaixa.com).

Thu 4 Sep 08

9pm at L’Auditori, Hall 1 Pau Casals ( Lepant, 150)  30€  Buy tickets

After many years in the business, Moncho is returning to his roots, accompanied on his new album by a number of artists who confess to having listened to him ever since they were kids.

To them all (Lolita, Diego el Cigala, Josemi Carmona, Niña Pastori, Tomatito, etc.) MONCHO is Tío MONCHO. At the Auditori, a great show surrounded by top-flight musicians, the artist will recover the fusion of which he was a pioneer when, as a precursor of Catalan rumba, he sang flamenco and melodic song with Cuban airs and jazz tendencies.  (Taken from www.auditori.org).

Fri 15 Aug 08

12 Hrs at Razzmatazz Sala 1 (C/Almogavers, 122) 12 - 15€ Buy tickets

A Mountain Of One is one of the better secrets at the moment. With some delicious and curious influences that tilt from the seventy to the ninety (from Love to The Beta Band, from Talk Talk to the sound Madchester, from Fleetwood Mac to the ‘balearic’ sound , from Arthur Russell to Pink Floyd).

As well it said Pitchfork, the epic sound of this individual mountain is the best option to listen fallen in the beach with the eyes closed; a characteristic that shares with the delicious music of the swedish project Studio and that will do that parch you to the sun. Its collection “Collected Works” (07), where they collected all the themes published in vinyl Lp’s during the last years, celebrates a timeless and precious music that fabulously has been received for the criticism.

Fred Falke, electronic bassist in collaborative work with Alan Braxe, a French electronic music artist; would carry out with this in 2000 ‘Intro’, a memorable one track of house hot and subtly ecstatic, based on a sampler of the ‘Crush On You’ of The Jets, and that would penetrate depth in the memory of the clubbers of all species. It composes since then small but perfect synthetic hymns, metalized and neo-romantics through and through (’Palladium’, ‘Rubicon’, ‘Chrystal City’), that met in 2005 in the compilation “The Upper Cuts”. There it is re-mix of Goldfrapp, Röyksopp, The Infadels, Hot Chip, Kelis or Jamiroquai and, after to have offered, with the inseparable one Braxe, a remembering of the phenomenal and federalist one ‘D.A.N.C.E.’ of Justice, 2008 is starting good with ‘Music For My Friends’ his new release of 4 themes in Work It Baby, the seal of the colleague Kris Menace.

(Taken and adapted from www.salarazzmatazz.com).

Thu 14 Aug

12hrs at Razzmatazz (C/ Almogavers 122) 12 - 15€ Buy tickets

Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan Mast.

Their 2004 debut, Ratatat, was written and recorded in Mast’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment on Stroud’s PowerBook. This album is entirely instrumental, except for occasional excerpts of dialog at the beginning and end of some tracks. For touring in 2006, they added a third member, Jacob Morris, on keyboard.

The group started out releasing their debut single Seventeen Years on Evan and his brother’s record label Audio Dregs label in the US and Rex Records in the UK. The official site has been updated showing that a new single, Shiller, is now available for purchase (only on 7″). The duo’s most recent album, LP3, was released on July 8, 2008. (Taken from www.wikipedia.org).

Fri 8 Aug 08

10pm at Ateneu Barcelones (C/ Canuda 6) 10€ Buy tickets

“Fados” and poetry Fusion. The music of Névoa is a selection of traditional melodies of the fado of Lisboa with lyrics of Catalan poets and like Enric Casasses, Feliu Formosa, Josep Maria de Sagarra, or also, Pablo Neruda. She is presenting her new album “‘Entre Pedres i Peixos” (Between stones and fishes).

The concert is in benefit of International Amnesty. (Tomado de www.telentrada.com & www.vesc.cat).

Wed 6 Aug 08

7, 8 & 9pm at La Pedrera (Provença, 261-265)   6€  SOLD OUT   Buy tickets

Yoko Suzuki is a Japanese concertista of piano, formed between Tokyo and Barcelona. She has performed as soloist with the Orquestra de la Societat de Concerts de Barcelona and with the Barcelona Strauss Orchestra.

She has given prestigious concerts in various venues in Spain and Japan; among them the Palau de la Música Catalana , Casa Milá (La Pedrera) in Barcelona and in the auditoriums of Zaragoza, Torrent of Valencia, Camprodón, Menorca, Mollerusa, Cádiz, Salamanca, Tokio, Kanagawa.

In 2000, she recorded the album “Fantasíae Peregrinabundae” with music by Sakae Tauchi the contemporary Japanese composer,and in 2007 she recorded the new album “Spanish oiano” by Columna Música. (Taken from http://yokosuzukipiano.com).