Glorious disaster
Yes, I was
late. Five minutes, as the song of Luis Eduardo Aute. But in the song the great
María Félix danced and drank while singing "five minutes, just the ones that left and I forget the mourning, five
and no more." That’s an evocative image, right? My five minutes,
however, were pitiful, pathetic because they were run late, too late, along the
streets of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to the Teatre Joventut where acted that
night the great Adrià Puntí in the Barnasants Festival, to which we all owe so
much. He had already begun his performance. He was alone on stage, with
acoustic guitar, sunglasses and a single vertical focus illuminating him. Sorry,
I could not tell what song he was singing, I think it was Esperit. But it sounded a prelude to something big.
Later,
Puntí sat at the piano and his band appeared on stage. He honored Ovidi
Montllor performing the song that the master from Alcoy composed with Jaume
Subirana entitled Carnisseria (Butcher’s).
"While cutting, sadistically distracted he was thinking of his wife, tsss,
his father, tsss, his mother in law, tsss ...". Puntí succeed adding Artur
Mas, president of the Catalan government, which started the laughter of the
audience, and Mariano Rajoy, president of the Spanish government, getting even a
big sarcastic applause. These are things from the political whoring and the citizen
flagger infatuations.
Puntí was
magical, as is his repertoire of a textual richness that is unfortunately
scarce. He explained “Do you know the
story of the man who walked around Girona with a phone? Everybody mocked him...Now
we all have one”. I found a knock on my door. It could not be real because clearly
I was not home. Neither an optical illusion could manufacture a finest range of
possibilities because a call sounds but rarely can be seen. Then? It was Puntí,
he was hitting the strings of his piano and I listened to them just feeling in
the house of the songwriting art, mine, and the one everyone should feel as
their own. We missed you, Adrià. There were moments for his new songs from the
recent EP Benvinguts al desastre (Welcome
to disaster) as Esperit, which I
missed at first, and La prova del nou,
which could be included in his upcoming new album, as well as the advanced Tornavís. If the the album sounds this
way is up to the author from Salt. But there was also space for Umpah-pah and his
previous solo albums. So he performed his classics Ull per ull, Sota una col, Catximba and the huge Sí, once overed by Bunbury, from the latest Umpah-Pah
album published in 1996 La columna de
Simeón. "Who could it be? I want it’s you ... Tell me! Tell me once!
... For mercy! Please, tell me! confess ... Maybe you do not exist. When in
doubt, it’s a dream. "And that's Puntí on stage, a dream come true. With
humor and good lyrics.
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