It’s already been six seasons of the Jardins de Terramar festival, the musical event that has secured a place in the increasingly full festival calendar by braving two heavy weapons: an idyllic space near the sea in Sitges, which is less than an hour from Barcelona. Inaugurated in 1919, the gardens have hosted a musical proposal since 2017 that last year brought together 26,350 people and closed the hiatus caused by the pandemic.
The new edition of Terramar started last night with the double performance of Suu and Els Amics de les Arts, betting on Catalan music well received by an audience mostly aged around 40 and coming from the province, which generously filled the enclosure It was evident from the first hour, during the previous musical warm-up with the rumba performed by Edu Prats that was heard in a frequented village around the central pond of the gardens.
Suu’s happy and summery beats opened fire at 10pm in front of an audience that was eager to applaud and few to get up while the songs of the young singer from Barcelona, ??who recently released the single Postal cheap, critical of the summer posturing of social networks, which contrasts with real moments like the one experienced last night in Sitges. Accompanied by a quartet of musicians (drums, bass, guitar and keyboards), Suu, who sang indistinctly in Catalan and Spanish, performed a short but intense concert, nine songs of ethereal pop in 45 energetic minutes that start with Boom and they reviewed their last album, full of connotations of the eighties, Karaoke, from which they played the tune of the same name, Nota de voz and Tu a Menorca i jo a l’Escala, not forgetting the version of Enamorado de la youth fashion from Radio Futura and Algo de mí, from La Pegatina. Themes that were mixed with those of previous works, such as the hits Tant de bo (with paparà chanted by the public) and Eres un temazo, with which the date closed.
At around 11 at night it was the turn of Els Amics de les Arts, who carried the new themes of Allà on wanted. The sixth studio album by Joan Enric Barceló, Dani Alegret and Ferran Piqué continues with the intimate stories, in full bloom, focused on the current life of the trio, in their forties and with children, disappointments and satisfaction for the journey made . The album includes new hits such as Citant Mercè Rodoreda, a heartbreak narrated with fragments of the writer from the Gràcia neighborhood, with the stamp that has characterized Amics since its creation 18 years ago. This track was scheduled to be played last night together with other songs from the new album, such as the eponymous Allà on volia, with which the performances on this tour begin, or the festive nostalgia of The night seems to be ours. Along with these novelties, classics were expected to make the fans sing like Monsieur Cousteau, Louisiana or the Cotton Fields, 4-3-3 and the dialogue with Jean-Luc Godard, the unofficial anthem of the formation since its appearance in that Bed
This Friday’s performance kicked off two weeks of music in which you can listen to artists such as Tom Jones, who at the age of 83 will perform on August 3 the only concert this summer in Catalonia of his Ages
