Panorama July: Spain
By Sound World and Construction Area
We face the final stretch of summer with the release of a law that limits the temperature of air conditioning in public spaces. Undoubtedly, a complicated autumn advance that awaits us energetically speaking. Meanwhile, the festivals that are still on the summer agenda are being held and musical releases are arriving in dribs and drabs. Despite this lack of news, typical of the time of year, here are our highlights from last July.
On his new LP, Miqui Puig sings Vol. 7, the Catalan Miqui Puig has abandoned the confessional narrative to make way for the suggestive and evocative. Any of his songs takes us to a moment in our life, his, really, because Miqui's fan, like Morrissey's, like Gainsbourg's, shares his life with ours.
An album that surprises, a turn, the umpteenth. Well understood revisionism of dance music. Miqui returns, melancholic, punk, danceable, resistant from Barcelona North: seven and a half, double couples, dogs and singles, love and motorcycles and drum machines. As guests we find Queralt Lahoz, Irantzu Valencia, Harny Roots, Ferran Palau and El Petit de Cal Eril. Miqui has returned to the track, for a while on the decks and another moving her hips. Master. The fucking master. (By Octavio Milian)
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Tanxugueiras –Deluge: On July 29, it was finally published Deluge, the long-awaited third album by the Galician Tanxugueiras, who are experiencing a sweet moment after the success of their time at Benidorm Fest and being the protagonists of Spotify's Equal Spain campaign. Roots, modernity and gender perspective hand in hand.
Lorenzo Soria and Sebastian Orellana – Your little Moorish eyes: Dance with spices is what Lorenzo Soria, a member of Califato ¾, and the Chilean Sebastián Orellana offer in your Moorish eyes, the first advance of the album that they prepare together and that will be published in October. The song advances a pot of styles, passions and sonorities where urban music from the south of Spain, cumbia and some of the soundystem that survive in the memory of clandestine raves.
Natos and Waor- Until sunrise: Natos and Waor surprise again with Until sunrise, the second preview of what will be their new work and in which they collaborate again with their fellow raider in Hijos de la Ruina, Recycled J. Electronic, dance and rap come together on a base by Pablo Gareta and with the guest guitar of Jack Sheehan .
The Sea of Music – Special Dominican Republic: One of the Spanish festivals that always has the sounds of Latin America on its radar, offered in its 27th edition an impressive special focused on the Dominican Republic. Thus, from the Caribbean island they arrived in Cartagena: Xiomara Fortuna, Mula, Riccie Oriach, Rita Indiana, Vicente García, Letón Pe, Yasser Tejeda, Álex Ferreira and Sandro Reyes.
In addition, La Mar de Músicas featured, among many others, Guitarricadelafuente, La MODA, Tanxugueiras, Carla Morrison, Zucchero, Eliades Ochoa, Jacob Collier and Youssou N'Dour.
