Latinity in its most pop form enveloped this Friday the opening day of the Cap Roig Festival with a figure from overseas that this year has given the pull in our country, the Colombian Sebastian Yatra, loaded with the sentimental tribulations of their latest album, ‘Dharma’. Laughing opening night and social act of long shots at the Calella de Palafrugell show, which takes a deep breath, after the forced suspension of 2020 and the anomalous edition of 2021, offering a program of 19 concerts of which 10 present all the paper sold, with more than 32,000 tickets dispatched.
Cap Roig premiered ‘village’, larger than last year’s, a citizen’s agora for provisioning prior to access to the auditorium, with capacity for 2,500 attendees. That was where Sebastián Yatra was able, who a few weeks ago acted in the Palau Sant Jordi, benefit from the closeness of the public, rich in young fans who knew all the lyrics. Starting with ‘Anonymous Melancholics’, a theme in which, based on a telephone conversation, Yatra sculpts a monument to heartbreak with a language very much of these times: “It seems that I have covid, because nobody knows me, na’ I it hurts & rdquor ;. He was accompanied by two dancers, in the task of light the fuse in the stands.
The one that makes you suffer
Another dancing couple, this male, accompanied him in ‘Airplane mode’, after which he spoke: “I love to say this: ‘Bona nit, Catalunya!”, he greeted, effusively, confessing his “immense honor” for “opening this beautiful festival & rdquor ; and looking at the audience with desire. “It makes me want to be down there with you & rdquor ;. And without waiting, he attacked with one of the ‘hits’, ‘Red high heels’, whose tune made the audience stand up, mobile phones held high, pointing to a certain imprecise creature: “the one that makes me cry / the one that makes me suffer / but I don’t stop loving & rdquor ;. From there to the tropical rattle of ‘Liar’, another bombshell that made (literally) the stands of Cap Roig tremble.
They dominated the songs of ‘Dharma’, their third album, in which this Miami-based Colombian from Medellin says he is in “a higher state of consciousness”, leaving behind “anxiety about the future and depression about the past”, as he pointed out to this newspaper a few months ago. Material in which he fuses diaphanous choruses with Latin flirtations (cumbia, vallenato) and some hint of flamenco guitar (‘Dharma’, which he shares on the album with Rosario and Jorge Celedón).
piano ballad
For Yatra, musical genres do not seem to be identity niches but rather tools to take the general public ahead, so that cumbersome arrangements are compatible, with rock guitars, with a naked piano ballad like ‘Devuélveme el corazón’. There, after melt the stalls, made a confession: “Sometimes I feel like I grew up in the wrong era, because from a very young age I wanted to make love songs and what sounded like it was pure reggaeton & rdquor ;, he shared heartily. “But the planet sometimes needs crazy people like us to give a melody to that madness & rdquor ;.
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Without leaving the piano, he presented a new song, just as collected, ‘Contigo’, which “tells the story of all of us at some point”. Moment of ‘crescendo’, already with the band incorporated, on the way to an assault on ‘We are not crazy’, by Ketamaand expected numbers such as ‘Ideal Girl’ and ‘Couple of the Year’, which put the culmination of a victory night for this ‘La Voz Kids’ coach. Cap Roig marches againwith a program that will run until August 15 and claims like Christina Aguilera, Raphael or Sting.