Maria
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Place and date: L’Auditori (room 3) (IV/21/2024)
What to do with tradition? Glorify it as a sacred object, protected between cottons of melancholy? Or interweave it in our present, which, no matter how indebted it is to yesterday, should never be its slave? It seems more interesting, and above all more fun, the second. Along these lines is Maria Bertomeu’s work, La Maria para el arte, which she swept in the last edition of the Ovidi awards, winning in three of its categories. The young Valencian artist (voice, tambourine, guitarrón…) presented her first album, L’Assumpció, within the framework of the Barnasants festival, accompanied by Darío González (electric guitar), Genís Ibáñez (keyboard and moog) and Sergio Martínez (percussions). Beyond the aforementioned album, and among other things, he included in his Sunday repertoire allusions to the ill-fated Gata Cattana (Voy pa’ la mani), Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio (bonita Gall roig, gall negre) and even Antonio Machín, attacking a cappella the excellent little black angels.
La Maria soon caught our attention with the love song in Galician Amodiño, well punctuated by a nice electronic touch, continuing with the pop packaging that gives D’allà so much appeal. Her vision of the traditional L’ hereu Riera was exciting, both for the command of short distance that our vocalist exhibited, and for the sophisticated musical workmanship of the piece. We went through fandango, jota, or some albaes in which the audience also joined in the singing. To then enter fully into a wonderful Sepeli, a song based on various episodes of El Misteri d’Elx, impressive for its cathedral-like start and a journey with a rave pulse in which we were also assaulted by guitars of hard-rock varnishes. Already in the encores, the Arranquen vinyes with which he began to become known on the networks fell, or the later Clavells i flors, with its transition from the palmas to the loops, once again marking the electrosenda. Short concert (about seventy minutes), but with bite, confirming the virtues of an ascending talent from whom we can expect future news: the best is yet to come.
