Postludic Manifesto, Acid Sierra, Pizarnik

Big night this Saturday at the Tòtum, with three bands that are very much the house’s own: solid, adventurous, and with quality to match.

Good turnout in the room, settled in comfortably and ready to let the different acts carry me along, confident I’d get excellent sound — and so it was.

A sober opening from Pizarnik, the quartet silhouetted against the bright screen and the elegant lettering of their name. Sobriety and elegance is what Verónica Ibáñez (piano and vocals), Miguel Cañedo (guitar), Manel Puigcerver (bass) and Mario De’Finis (drums) gave us. Every instrument shone, voice included, making for the perfect start to the evening.

We got to enjoy their whole discography — on Spotify, at least — plus one extra track, Vuelves, closing the set with their just-released single, Luna. Here’s hoping they keep giving us more evocative songs soon.

Setlist:

Discordia

7

Luvina

Preludio

Liberación y reparación

Pájaros me dicen

Vuelves

Desierto

Luna

A few minutes to chat it over with the Tòtum regulars, spotting familiar and new faces alike, and the Master of Ceremonies comes back out to announce our friend Elisenda Amartis’s new project: Postludic Manifesto. Those of us who know her from other projects were already braced for it, and as always, she and her new partners in crime didn’t disappoint — quite the opposite.

With an artistic proposal where the visual side matters almost as much as the music, the band put real work into projections that ran through the whole set, an intrinsic and inseparable part of the music, building a total show with theatrical and performance elements.

Responsible for all of it: Elisenda Amartis on synths, piano and vocals, Claudio on guitar and synth, Estephanos on drums and Alberdi on bass.

Sobriety was nowhere to be found, and the barrage of stimuli never let up, nor did the experimentation and risk-taking. All of it, though, under control. We expect great things from this new project, because they clearly have the potential for it, as was plain throughout the whole set.

Setlist:

Umbilical Industrial

Despertador

Vuelvo a mi

Aveztruz

Isla

A few minutes to catch our breath, get some air and indulge a little, and the Master of Ceremonies introduces the third and last band of the evening, the trio Acid Sierra, who from the very first track already show their power-trio character, confirmed on the second track with the sardana Sardarkna, quite the statement of intent. It never fails to surprise me how David G. Costa on guitar, Carlos Santín on bass and synths and Hèctor Gómez on drums manage to fill a stage with just three instruments — and fill it with music, since despite how good the projected logo and animations looked, in this case they weren’t really relevant to what the (power) trio were doing. Instrumental too, on top of it all.

To close the party, Elisenda came up to join them for a fantastic version of the Kraftwerk classic Europe Endless, this time sung as a duet. What better way to end…

Until next time!

Setlist:

Linea de flotacion

Sardarkna

Ronda historica

Ciudad angular

Liviantez

Acidente

Llamale teatro

Europe endless