LE MONDE
Mariona Aupí
Date
2 November 2017
Location
Cafetería Naves
Price
Free entrance
Category
Institution
Naves Matadero
Mariona strums emotion into her strings and sets it free with her voice. At the age of 17, she and Jaime Ferrer created the group Fang, which quickly gathered a cult following in Spain. They released four albums between 1997 and 2004, with Mariona’s voice beginning to make waves. Film director Jaume Balagueró decided to include their song My Black Dress in his first big hit, Los sin nombre, and directed the music video for the song, using footage from the film.
In 2006 Mariona began the project Santa N with musician Carlos Ann, which took them on a tour of Mexico and Spain. Alongside Carlos she immersed herself in a 5-year-long creative process, collaborating with poet Juan Gelman (2007 Cervantes Prize) to set his verses to music. The album was released a few months after his death. Before that, however, Mariona had already started work on her first solo album, Criatura (2013), a very personal creation with electronic leanings, featuring electric guitars.
In 2015 she set out to compose her second album, Le Monde, a meticulous and elegant project produced and scored by Guillermo Martorell, who will be presented here.
The emotions conveyed on the album are symbolised by water and inhabit a metaphorical setting where the sea (water in constant motion/regeneration) is the protagonist. They are songs that rise up from the ocean. “The sea appears in the songs’ artistic production and helped to create a particular sonic world for the project. The songs dress themselves up in sound images that represent this environment: recordings of the sea made in Empordà specifically for the album, a double bass transformed into a boat’s horn blast and the cry of a guitar in the style of a dolphin song are some of the album’s sound metaphors, reinforcing the marine environment”, explains Mariona. They are sensual and unerring songs that emerge forcefully from a calm sea. As poet Alejandro Simón Partal says: “Le Monde, through a dialogue of boundaries in the form of eleven songs – with two reinvented interludes by the brilliant Charles-Valentin Alkan – immerses us in the revelation of a woman who is an essential composer, who has created an eternal respite for us with respect to everything else, to all that can be foreseen”. Photo (c) Noemí Elias Bascuñana
Featuring:
Vocals and electric guitar: Mariona Aupí. Electric guitar, acoustics and piano: Guillermo Martorell.
In 2006 Mariona began the project Santa N with musician Carlos Ann, which took them on a tour of Mexico and Spain. Alongside Carlos she immersed herself in a 5-year-long creative process, collaborating with poet Juan Gelman (2007 Cervantes Prize) to set his verses to music. The album was released a few months after his death. Before that, however, Mariona had already started work on her first solo album, Criatura (2013), a very personal creation with electronic leanings, featuring electric guitars.
In 2015 she set out to compose her second album, Le Monde, a meticulous and elegant project produced and scored by Guillermo Martorell, who will be presented here.
The emotions conveyed on the album are symbolised by water and inhabit a metaphorical setting where the sea (water in constant motion/regeneration) is the protagonist. They are songs that rise up from the ocean. “The sea appears in the songs’ artistic production and helped to create a particular sonic world for the project. The songs dress themselves up in sound images that represent this environment: recordings of the sea made in Empordà specifically for the album, a double bass transformed into a boat’s horn blast and the cry of a guitar in the style of a dolphin song are some of the album’s sound metaphors, reinforcing the marine environment”, explains Mariona. They are sensual and unerring songs that emerge forcefully from a calm sea. As poet Alejandro Simón Partal says: “Le Monde, through a dialogue of boundaries in the form of eleven songs – with two reinvented interludes by the brilliant Charles-Valentin Alkan – immerses us in the revelation of a woman who is an essential composer, who has created an eternal respite for us with respect to everything else, to all that can be foreseen”. Photo (c) Noemí Elias Bascuñana
Featuring:
Vocals and electric guitar: Mariona Aupí. Electric guitar, acoustics and piano: Guillermo Martorell.