Love and climate sustainability are the great themes of Marcel and Juliaa duo that waters their songs with naturalistic metaphors, like the one that opened their show this Saturday in Bogatell, at the Mercè concerts, ‘Millor amb tu’: “Ara que la Terra és un hostatge / que no hi ha sorra a la platja (…) / Ara, que el mar és massa dolç / i que a l’amor li lacks salt”, sang this couple who decided to embark on their musical journey after taking a ride around Brazil by bicycle.
They are Marcel Lazara (who was a guitarist-singer of Txarango) and Julia Arrey, a tandem that mixed their voices, backed by five musicians, at the start of the second night of ‘Mediterràniament’, a bill completed with performances by Els Catarres and Delafé and the Flores Azules. the hint of rain and the strong wind that raged along the sea added a furious romantic realism to that repertoire delivered to the elements: that of ‘in orbit‘ (2021), their second album, inspired by the photo titled ‘exit from earth‘, which astronaut William Anders captured of our planet from the Moon in 1968.
Earth is not so bad
what of Marcel and Julia It is less cumbersome than turbo-verbena of Txarangoand tends towards a mongrel pop with occasional tropical-Jamaican plotlines and ‘Afro’ guitar dialogue, prone to dancing, but no overreaction. Topics like ‘climatic love‘, the most meridian exponent of his lyrical universe, with references to volcanoes, polar bears and “coralls en perill d’extinció”, and ‘Sabor mestizo’, by first albuma piece that carries vital appetite: “I want to eat the world and I will eat it with you”.
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Lots of immediate access chorus, seasoned with proclamations to see the glass half full. “Per vosaltres, por la vida i porquè la Terra es un bon lloc per viure”, celebrated Marcel, stretching his cosmic vocabularywhile Júlia proceeded to give the politicians a smack on the head “because I bet per les people”, and insisted, invoking Torras i Bages: “the future will be sustainable or it will not be”.
Marcel and Júlia began the gig in front of an audience that was still a little decimated and ended in front of a bustling crowd who sang with them, assisted by an extra portion of bass drum by her, her definitive milestone, ‘Per la vida’. Pure post-pandemic relief to “provide per les coses senzilles” and dance “quan brillen els estels”.