The Mas i Mas Festival continues to fill Barcelona’s August with abundant and multi-style music. After the long-awaited start by the legendary Soul II Soul at the Palau de la Música, the event continues with a dense daily offer.
Today, Wednesday, for example, the roadmap offers three flamenco sessions of Salvajería in Los Tarantos; M.U.S.A sessions electro music at the Moog; sessions of underground rap, hip hop and electro in Jamboree 2, or the performances of the jazz groups FER-
It is precisely the last of these proposals that can attract more attention due to its content and members. For local and national jazz fans, the project is not strange, even if it is relatively recent.
As its name indicates, its backbone is female, and in addition to its own significant entity: Rita Payés (trombone and voice), Eva Fernández (sax and voice), Lucía Fumero (piano and voice) and Magalí Datzira (double bass and voice). Drummer Juan Berbín completes the lineup of the combo.
It is not an exaggeration at all to say that Las de Barcelona – as the organization values ??– bring together four talents from the new batch of the Catalan jazz scene, with an outstanding presence of those formed in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, such as Payés, Datzira or Fernandez.
In any case, proven professionals despite their youth both alone and in collaborative formats. In this regard, the most strikingly recent case would be that of Rita Payés, with her acclaimed international tour with her mother, the guitarist Elisabeth Roma, or her participation in the spectacular show by C. Tangana.
Another of the striking aspects of the group is that it is a quintet that formally lacks a leader and that works on a repertoire of their own compositions, as well as the Latin American songbook with an emphasis on Argentine, Brazilian and Cuban.
The group’s presence at the Mas i Mas Festival is not new since last year they offered the inaugural concert at the Jamboree… very close to the Robadors 23 venue, where they were artistically born.
