Double poster with Macaco and La Pegatina to enliven the wildest night of the year at the Porta Ferrada Festival in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Whether due to the abundant offer on such a designated day or the fact that the scheduled groups are lavished during the summer for other scenarios, the fact is that, according to the organization, the official number of attendance was only 1,269 spectators This was not a problem for the protagonists to give their all, starting with Dani Carbonell, alias Macaco, a mestizo master who, due to the demands of the script, had to open the evening instead of crowning it.
The author of Moving already poured the great success all at once, in a medley that also included Volar and Love is the only way. Accompanied by a competent quintet, he showed experience and also a desire to pontificate with long introductions and quotes Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Carl Sagan or Bob Marley, in a conscious and ecological message that speaks of those who row against the current in Valientes. In addition to having reggae as the saint and sign of his sound, he also remembers the African rumba and cedes the lead to the bassist and musical director, the Cameroonian Jules Bikôkô, and of course the Catalan rumba, from which he takes a position on the controversy in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Unesco, before singing the Rumber hymn Con la mano levantá and giving way to the fan rhythm of the guitarist Muchacho and the dancer Raquel Vicente.
Of course, there was no lack of a nod to the last album Vuélame el corazón, from which he rescued the emotional Quiéreme bien, recorded with Leiva, in which he takes the opportunity to recite some meaningful verses against the clichés of love: “I wouldn’t kill you… nor my heart broken… nor for all my life… nor half oranges / Lennon already stressed it / we are born whole”. Nor did he forget Coincidir, from the album Historias tattooadas, which became his most listened to song on Spotify. The good vibes of this reggae had the support of the audience, who showed that he knew the lyrics inside out. To top off the concert, they saved Bailo la pena with mestizo sound and the collaboration of Cherokee.
The end of the party was reserved for the infallible La Pegatina, a sure value at any major party with the invariable fixed-pinion rhythms, which move between ska and rumba. The nonet puts all the meat on the grill from the first theme Y volar , with the metal popping and the bellows of the accordion. A formula that continued unchanged in Yo quiero bailar, Miranda’s textbook mestizo sound and the French wink of La voisine with air from La bamba.
The rumba arrived with C omo se hacen las flores and La ciudad de los gatos negros, with tribute to Gato Pérez in the lyrics. There were also nods to Despéchá, by Rosalía, and Me gustas tú, by Manu Chao, before putting sauces on Olivia. The Catalan made an appearance at the rocker Un cop de sort, which, joined to a cancan rhythm, turned the audience into a fun choreography.
A rumber medley also stood out, sitting around a table in which they imitated C. Tangana’s unplugged manner and rescued themes from the first era to make the audience participate in a kind of immersion. And with the oscillation of the heavy guitarist of Heridas de guerra to the Italian touch of Mamma mia, he spoke a bolo included in the tour celebrating the group’s twenty years, which will end with the concerts at the Sant Jordi Club in November 3 and 4.
