Another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet

BarcelonaAnother impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet? Yes, another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet. This time, at the Oriol Martorell Hall of L'Auditori de Barcelona to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the performance at the Olympia in Paris, which was immortalized in an album that has just been reissued. But just enough nostalgia because, as she sings in To alenarThe Mallorcan singer's entire journey "will be to move forward," and she maintains her voice, her intention, and her enthusiasm for moving forward. It's hard to find an artist like Maria del Mar Bonet in the world, so majestic and attentive to the popular and poetic legacy, and so influential on young musicians. This is corroborated by Maria Hein, 21, for whom Bonet is an inspiration, "not only as a singer and songwriter".

Friday's concert did indeed start by recalling April 1975 at the Olympia, with songs like Aigo and I'm leaving home, performed with an exceptional quintet made up of musicians from Mallorca and led by lute player Toni Pastor. It's a new band Bonet has been working with for several months, and with whom he has already recorded three songs premiered at L'Auditori: Song of Nonsense (inspired by a surrealist gloss on a fish excursion), The bell tree and a melismatic Blue water.

Del Olympia also recovered Doll doll, one of those compositions about dreamt things. "In this one, I dreamed I had a daughter," he explained. In addition to his always-on voice and his prodigious management of microphone dynamics, Doll doll It also showcased the importance of Benjamín Salom's violin in this new era, as well as the delicacy of Marco Lohikari's double bass and Jose Llorach's percussion. The first block was completed. Olympic, which also included Start of the campaign (verses by Rosselló-Pòrcel) and His zambomba, Bonet displayed the best popular cards: that of the Dance of Spring, highly acclaimed by the public, and that of the tonadas, a genre he dominates like few others and which the band placed in the realm of mantric traffic. "In the tonadas, I've lost respect for them and I make them dizzy," he said. Dizziness is grafting current events into the verses, such as pointing out the political disaster in the management of the DANA in l'Horta Sud. Maria del Mar Bonet is always there.

Everything that happened next feeds the legend. It seemed as if the musicians were really enjoying themselves, as if they were inventing the arrangements and attacks on the fly; without restraints and at the same time always attentive to each other. The tune made To alenar, the best Catalan song in history, will take on a new and even stronger form, with the violin and lute joining Marc Grasas' guitar. More dates at the Olympia (Song for a good night and April) lived with a stratospheric To hear full of vigor and feeling. Maria del Mar Bonet does something very remarkable that has become a school of thought: she manages the scream, the volume, the silence, the lament, and the murmur with wisdom, always knowing how to amplify their effect without overwhelming, and the impact is real and profound. The audience, everyone standing, gave her a standing ovation demanding an encore. And the Mediterranean diva was Greek in Hippocrates and indignant in What do these people want? (with precise percussion work). "Very good, girl!" exclaimed a spectator after the stimulating Hippocrates, as if recognizing the eternal youth of Her Majesty María del Mar Bonet.