You set your expectations extremely high, because you've already seen the bread that's served at the concerts of Ca la Fresca RemedyAnd they always surpass expectations, as happened on Thursday at Sala Apolo in a furious and entertaining performance, with overflowing charisma on stage and infectious enthusiasm among the audience. At the end of last year, the band from Arbúcies released The hook of the question (Bankrobber), one of the best albums of 2024 according to the ARASince then, they have given more than sixty concerts, fiercely defending a rock that is born in the cracks of time, free from stylistic constraints, while connected to the most distressing present, that of the various depredations that affect the country: the plundering of aquifers, the salinization of the fields, lies of the far right... Remedio de Ca la Fresca are from Arbúcies and they are angry, but instead of being a nuisance they channel the insurrection with irony, poetry and a conception of the show that reminds us of the power of live music.

The traditional Altaveu Awards ceremony will inaugurate the 36th edition of the Altavoz Festival in Sant Boi de Llobregat. The gala will be held on the evening of September 10th at Can Massallera, and the concerts and various activities will extend from the 11th to the 14th at the Cal Ninyo Theater, the Town Hall Square, the Ateneu Gardens, the Rafael Casanova Rambla, and the Can Castellet cinemas. "The program emphasizes music with its own voice, because a voice of its own is a driving force of social transformation," says Víctor Partido, the festival's artistic programmer. Indeed, uniqueness, a voice of its own, is the characteristic feature of artists and groups performing at the Altaveu, such as Pau Vallvé, Remedio de Ca la Fresca, Roserona, and Derby Motoreta's Burrito Kachimba.

Xantal Rodríguez and Irene Solà share a generation and a landscape. The former is from Arbúcies and is the singer of Remedy of Ca la Fresca, which has songs like Mountain pain, included on the disc The hook of the question (BankRobber), One of the best albums of 2024 according to the ARAThe second, the writer, is from Malla, and has made the mountain an omnipresent character in the novels I sing and the mountain dances (2019) and I gave you eyes and you looked into the darkness (2023), both published by Anagrama. This second book is the one recommended by Xantal Rodríguez, who closely experiences the colors, smells, and rapture of nature inherent in Irene Solà's literature.

They followed the concert hypnotized and without realizing that their body was yielding to the songs of Dipotry, Pau Riba's double album which was honored at the Teatre Grec this Tuesday, with a sold-out crowd. First, there were the eyes, which, in concert, opened like a flower. Then, the small, uncontrolled nods of approval from the head, which moved to the shoulders and spread to the arms. The couple expelled energy through their hands and began to float through the air. First, she stood up, and half a second later, he did. It was at the end of the concert. They had been dancing on stage for a while, but the audience struggled to get going.

Remei de Ca la Fresca was born as a love story in times of Covid in a modest farmhouse perched in a solitary and privileged spot in the Montseny massif. Below, battered, Arbúcies. The confinement of Xantal Rodríguez and Artur Piera, then a recent couple, bore wild and rabiüts musical fruits. It is the house where Artur spent his creative childhood as an only child, with solitary games and worlds of his own, with no friends within reach unless they drove him to Arbúcies. This space where Artur recorded films and breathed nature has ended up becoming the musical group's rehearsal and recording studio and the set of the music videos they make themselves.