Joan Dausa baptized this Saturday’s concert as ‘La gran bogeria‘, but his is no nonsense. It was bold, yes, to dare with the Palau Sant Jordibut the packed house proved him right in his mission to bring the large format that music which turns out to be both collected and spacious, with a confession whispered in the ear and a movie crescendo, and which grows live with a lively dialogue with the audience.
HE was trying to commemorate ten years of ‘Jo mai mai’ and to strike a chord with that generation that suffered with the story of crossed (and frustrated) loves in the film ‘Barcelona, nit d’estiu’. But the song became the excuse for Dausà to formalize the popular hook of his songbookwith which he has quietly become one of the most popular Catalan artists: 16,400 attendees, a very large figure for a format with chairs on the court, ‘sold out’ really in Sant Jordi (not like others). Session more presentist than nostalgic, where he dominated his recent repertoire.
Laugh and cry
Dausà wants his concerts They are not simple sequences of songs: seeks to involve, move, and just as or more difficult, to entertain. He achieves this by handling material that combines what he bluntly calls the ‘song-drama’, sometimes somewhat pretentious, aimed, let’s say, at strengthening the soul (that ‘Ara som gegants’ that opened the night between ‘new age’ keyboards ) with variable pop formulation (that remarkable ‘Buenos Aires’, in Spanish, about the time he spent there studying business management). He takes the audience where he wants, moving them, making them laugh and cry (or almost). Tell stories of old girlfriends, tells us about Alzheimer’s and the friends who have not been able to come “because they are trying to be accused of terrorism.” Directs the sections of the stands at will as the conjurer Chris Martin would do.
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‘Jo mai mai’ rang twice, acoustic and full band, and inspired a game by Dausà, romantic himself, aimed at getting two attendees who did not know each other to kiss (and they succeeded: great admiration for Toni and Núria). In ‘Judit’, the song that continues the love story platonic, the aforementioned (actress Sara Espígul) came out. And Julieta accompanied him by surprise in ‘Una altra moda de viure’ (the song she recorded with Maria Rodés for Estrella Damm in 2019), and a mustachioed Santi Balmes in ‘Caure no feia mal’.
So, alternating emotional gravity and the ‘great euphoria’, singing of love and good feelings, Dausà consummated a night that elevated him above all expectations. And he did not stop there and called on the public to register on their website to go “bust the Wizink” or set up a “big bogeria” in Paris. She will do it if there are at least 6,000, she said, and given what has been seen, it is crazy to think that she will not achieve it.