The third and final weekend of Bridge to the Sound Arts (PAS) starts this Friday, July 19 (10:30 p.m.) with the performanceAlba Carmona. The Catalan artist, currently based in the south of Spain, arrives in Martorell to present her second album, Singer, where he confesses that he has found his roots around the mixture of traditional music from different territories. He will be accompanied on stage by Ignasi Cama on guitar, Jesús Suárez on percussion and Roser Loscos on violin.
Singer was published at the end of 2023 and, as the artist says, “it is a mixture of traditional and popular music where I find my roots, and which includes both versions of popular songs that have inspired me in all these years of my profession as also my compositions”.
A work that addresses “different themes, from lullabies, through love, work or prayer. A little bit of everything that we find in our popular culture”. She adds that the area where she feels most comfortable is “with the mixture of traditional Iberian and Latin American music”.
Alba Carmona, cantant
The indispensable and most primitive element of this genre has been vocal music and, therefore, the song. The artist collects several songs from different origins and brings them to a contemporary reading. for example, there is a song in Galician “that talks about the women who wait for the return from the sea of their husbands and fishing sons”, one in Catalan that becomes “the first piece I composed in this language, about early love that catches you and overwhelms you”, or a theme in Sicilian.
In all cases, the singer considers that “there are common links and a global popular music in terms of authenticity and the way of expression, be it in Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Spanish, etc”.
Alba Carmona, cantant
Alba Carmona started in the genre of traditional flamenco, which she had absorbed at home. He then pursued a musical career at ESMUC, where he deployed many and varied projects with fellow students, of different styles. Later he sang for 8 years in Las Migas and at the same time worked with jazz, classical and popular song musicians. Finally, after two decades of mixing styles, he found his way of expressing himself by singing and established himself as a solo artist. A year after that moment, in 2019, he created his first album, titled as his first and last name.
Source: martorelldigital.cat
