Another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet

Another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet? Yes, another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet. This time, in the Oriol Martorell hall at L'Auditori de Barcelona, to celebrate , which was immortalized in an album that has just been reissued. But just enough nostalgia because, as she sings in The 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 . Friday's concert did indeed start by recalling April 1975 at the Olympia, with songs like and , 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 a few months, and with whom he has already recorded three songs premiered at L'Auditori: (inspired by a surrealist gloss on a fish excursion), and a melismatic . Del Olympia also recovered , 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, 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. , which also included (verses by Rosselló-Pòrcel) and , Bonet displayed the best popular cards: that of the , 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.

"I've lost respect for them in the tonadas and I'm making them dizzy," he said. Dizziness is grafting current events into the verses, like 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 felt like 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 harmony made , 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 ( and ) lived with a stratospheric 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 and indignant in (with precise percussion work). "Very good, girl!" exclaimed a spectator after the stimulating , as if recognizing the eternal youth of Her Majesty María del Mar Bonet..