Clara and Pere Fiol pay tribute to Lluís Llach, Maria del Mar Bonet, Joan Manuel Serra, Gardel and Sílvia Pérez Cruz with the warmth of their music in the garden of Can Prunera.
The Fiol family breathes memory and music. Father and daughter offered last Saturday, at the Festival de Música Contemporània Nits de libèl·lula de Can Prunera, a hymn to musical freedom of the now classics of Mediterranean music. Contagious intimacies, complicit glances and smiles that they must have shared in a thousand and one after-dinner conversations singing together captivated the hundred people who enjoyed a unique, special and unforgettable concert. Thanks to the profound simplicity of a paternal guitar and Clara’s silky voice, the trees in the garden seemed to hear the silences between the notes. The mountains themselves, from their privileged throne of stones and wood, nodded in pleasure at such a musical delight.
The repertoire was an emotional journey through songs mostly in Catalan that have accompanied the sentimental history of Mallorca and many families: Me’n vaig a peu (Joan Manel Serrat), Amor particular (Lluís Lach), Curro el palmo (Joan Manel Serrat), A Margalida (Joan Isaac) or Melodía de arrabal (Carlos Gardel) slipped into new versions that were not intended to reinvent, but to revive. In this way they created a window into the intimacy that all of us were able to peer into. In addition, the youngest member of the family, Joan Fiol, also joined in on the cello, completing an unforgettable picture that more than a concert was an invitation to travel the collective memory in the complicities of a family that defends the roots of a music that is destined to endure.
Music made with love, playing, crossing times and spaces to conjugate them in a single verse, song or memory. In Verderol, Clara’s own composition, she managed to move us with the beautiful subtleties of a bird that takes flight without forgetting those it leaves behind on the ground. By sharing her voice as a song, Clara reminds us that we have shared a lot of music at home, and this has nourished a large part of who we are. A musical home where music is not a profession but a language, language and expression: a way of life.
There were moments of restrained emotion and others of exalted emotion. The performance of Bona nit, blanca roseta was one of them. In chorus with the audience, with a luxurious accompaniment, the audience sang the chorus of the popular Ibizan song in a loud voice. A collective, intimate and magical moment at the same time. Me’n vaig a peu, de mica en mica by Serrat, Alfonsina y el mar by Mercedes Sosa, Oración del remanso by Fandermole and Res de mi¸ composed by Clara inspired by a poem of Gabriel Ferrater, put the finishing touch to a simple but profound musical evening, like the things that are worthwhile in life.
On 23 August at 20:00 Adela Peraita, Paco Torres and Steve Withers bring back one of their most fascinating projects: Sterlin Plays Cohen. With their reinterpretation of this legendary album, the trio takes up the project they presented more than a decade ago under the name Llum i Negre: a book-disc and a tour that turned each evening into an unrepeatable experience.