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Sónar Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art
18th, 19th, 20th June 2009Barcelonawebsite Little Boots joins Sónar 2009
As well as Little Boots, the Sónar line-up includes other confirmed names that share a vision of the pop of the future: La Roux, Crystal Castles, Late Of The Pier, Micachu And The Shapes, Fever Ray and Ebony Bones
The Sónar 2009 line-up includes the show by Little Boots, the latest phenomenon from the United Kingdom, where she is achieving major success in critical and sales terms with her first album "Hands". Behind this alias is Victoria Hesketh, an ex-competitor on the television programme "Pop Idol," who has succeeded in using the Internet to raise the profile of her luminous electronic pop.
Pop 2.0
Attitude, youth and skill in reaching their audience by taking advantage of online promotional opportunities: they are also the distinguishing features of bands like Late Of The Pier, with their searing crossover of styles; Crystal Castles, corrosive on the outside with a pop heart at their centre; and Micachu And The Shapes, producers of intoxicating and irresistible pop-punk pills.
Outfits like La Roux, straight to the British top ten with their melodies oozing glamour, also share these qualities; so do Fever Ray, with her mysterious sound; and Ebony Bones with an open-minded approach to the song.
And of course, the young talent presented by the Red Bull Music Academy - Natalia Lafourcade, GoldieLocks and Jamie Woon: three different ways of taking pop to other dimensions. Barcelona, a creative hub
Barcelona takes centre stage in the line-up of Sónar 2009. Residents of the city, temporary visitors and artists from elsewhere in Catalonia find their studio and launch pad in Barcelona.
New talents, like Joe Crepúsculo, Miaau and Cauto share space with seasoned musicians like Pau Riba and with foreign artists who have made Barcelona their centre of operations, such as Filastine, Cardopusher and Roland Olbeter.
Their range of styles is very broad, and takes in experimentation, ethereal folk, electro house, beat pop, emotive electronica, noisism, dubstep, psychedelia and electro-rumba.
Sónar 2009 includes a fistful of bands, artists and djs from Barcelona and the surrounding area who are working on very personal styles with a very high level of artistic quality. Among them are The Requesters, Bèstia Ferida, Néboa, Rominger, Nikka, Buenavista, Miaau, Guillamino, Anímic (from Esparreguera) and Cauto (who is from Girona and lives in Barcelona). Sónar also includes the show by Pau Riba, a key figure in Catalan music, who will be presenting his new project with the band Mil Simonis and the special session by Txarly Brown, presenting the second volume in the series “Achilifunk,” based on the rumba, a genre with its roots deep in Barcelona.
Versus: the sum of talents
There are four "versus" shows at Sónar this year, which are all based on a musical confrontation between two or more projects on the same stage in order to discover a new approach, and all of which involve bands that are based in Barcelona: Colch-ón vs. Suma (the ex-member of Manta Ray Frank Rudow with Laura Clark, both Barcelona residents); Tarántula vs. Orquesta del Caballo Ganador; Joe Crepúsculo vs. La Estrella de David y Thelemáticos; and the encounter between the city's instrumental band BCN216 and the Norwegian musician Lars Horntveth.
Barcelona, the adopted city
Finally, there are a number of artists performing at Sónar 2009 who live and work in Barcelona, despite being born beyond the frontiers of Spain. Some of them, like Roland Olbeter (the creator of the robot orchestra Soundclusters), the two members of Institut Fatima (German by birth) and Mark Cunningham (a trumpeter from the North American no wave who has worked on many projects, the most recent of which is Bèstia Ferida) have been living in the city for many years. Others, like Cardopusher (Venezuela's Luis Garbán) and Grey Filastine have not been here for such a long time, but they have also made Barcelona their base camp.
June Music Festivals in Spain18th, 19th, 20th June 2009Barcelonawebsite Little Boots joins Sónar 2009
As well as Little Boots, the Sónar line-up includes other confirmed names that share a vision of the pop of the future: La Roux, Crystal Castles, Late Of The Pier, Micachu And The Shapes, Fever Ray and Ebony Bones
The Sónar 2009 line-up includes the show by Little Boots, the latest phenomenon from the United Kingdom, where she is achieving major success in critical and sales terms with her first album "Hands". Behind this alias is Victoria Hesketh, an ex-competitor on the television programme "Pop Idol," who has succeeded in using the Internet to raise the profile of her luminous electronic pop.
Pop 2.0
Attitude, youth and skill in reaching their audience by taking advantage of online promotional opportunities: they are also the distinguishing features of bands like Late Of The Pier, with their searing crossover of styles; Crystal Castles, corrosive on the outside with a pop heart at their centre; and Micachu And The Shapes, producers of intoxicating and irresistible pop-punk pills.
Outfits like La Roux, straight to the British top ten with their melodies oozing glamour, also share these qualities; so do Fever Ray, with her mysterious sound; and Ebony Bones with an open-minded approach to the song.
And of course, the young talent presented by the Red Bull Music Academy - Natalia Lafourcade, GoldieLocks and Jamie Woon: three different ways of taking pop to other dimensions. Barcelona, a creative hub
Barcelona takes centre stage in the line-up of Sónar 2009. Residents of the city, temporary visitors and artists from elsewhere in Catalonia find their studio and launch pad in Barcelona.
New talents, like Joe Crepúsculo, Miaau and Cauto share space with seasoned musicians like Pau Riba and with foreign artists who have made Barcelona their centre of operations, such as Filastine, Cardopusher and Roland Olbeter.
Their range of styles is very broad, and takes in experimentation, ethereal folk, electro house, beat pop, emotive electronica, noisism, dubstep, psychedelia and electro-rumba.
Sónar 2009 includes a fistful of bands, artists and djs from Barcelona and the surrounding area who are working on very personal styles with a very high level of artistic quality. Among them are The Requesters, Bèstia Ferida, Néboa, Rominger, Nikka, Buenavista, Miaau, Guillamino, Anímic (from Esparreguera) and Cauto (who is from Girona and lives in Barcelona). Sónar also includes the show by Pau Riba, a key figure in Catalan music, who will be presenting his new project with the band Mil Simonis and the special session by Txarly Brown, presenting the second volume in the series “Achilifunk,” based on the rumba, a genre with its roots deep in Barcelona.
Versus: the sum of talents
There are four "versus" shows at Sónar this year, which are all based on a musical confrontation between two or more projects on the same stage in order to discover a new approach, and all of which involve bands that are based in Barcelona: Colch-ón vs. Suma (the ex-member of Manta Ray Frank Rudow with Laura Clark, both Barcelona residents); Tarántula vs. Orquesta del Caballo Ganador; Joe Crepúsculo vs. La Estrella de David y Thelemáticos; and the encounter between the city's instrumental band BCN216 and the Norwegian musician Lars Horntveth.
Barcelona, the adopted city
Finally, there are a number of artists performing at Sónar 2009 who live and work in Barcelona, despite being born beyond the frontiers of Spain. Some of them, like Roland Olbeter (the creator of the robot orchestra Soundclusters), the two members of Institut Fatima (German by birth) and Mark Cunningham (a trumpeter from the North American no wave who has worked on many projects, the most recent of which is Bèstia Ferida) have been living in the city for many years. Others, like Cardopusher (Venezuela's Luis Garbán) and Grey Filastine have not been here for such a long time, but they have also made Barcelona their base camp.
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