“We want to make an album with soul, and the soul of music is sharing,” is how Gerard Quintana defines what will be Sopa de Cabra’s eleventh album, third after their reunification in 2011, which will be released next month. November, a work that will feature the collaboration of different artists, a novelty in the history of the Girona band. To make the wait shorter, over the next year they will publish several previews of a work that began to take shape after finishing the celebration tour for the 30th anniversary of the Ben Endins album, which concluded last November with a performance at the Palau Sant Jordi in front of 15,000 people.
“It will be a different album from all the ones we have made so far with Sopa de Cabra,” explains Gerard Quintana, approaching 60 years old, in a statement released on the occasion of the launch. “We are sharing the process of composing the songs, something we had never done before, at most we had arranged some of our classics together with other musicians.”
The group, which published its previous album, La gran onada, in 2020, has decided to “incorporate new perspectives and open the group to different ways of working that we admire to create songs together.” These songs can be heard live on a tour that will start in 2024 and will last until March 2025 with dates yet to be confirmed.
This year Sopa de Cabra received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat for their “notorious contribution to Catalan musical culture” as one of the main members of the Catalan rock movement.
