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Catalan duo Tarta Relena perform at the prestigious globalFest in New York

Music.  New York, 08/01/2024

Following on the heels of the epic opening series at David Geffen Hall and an evening-long outdoor celebration as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City in 2022 and 2023, the cultural catalysts at globalFEST return to Lincoln Center for another spectacular evening of musical discovery. This annual event has featured stars like Angelique Kidjo, Tanya Tagaq, and DakhaBrakha alongside up and coming bands you'll see on stages around the world following their performance at globalFEST. This past January's sold-out blockbuster, ten-sets-in-one-night blowout returns to David Geffen Hall for another full-theater takeover, inhabiting all the floors and venues of the newly renovated building with breathtaking artists from across the planet, and around the corner.


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Tarta Relena was born in 2016 as a project of two singers to explore a cappella the sonorities of different styles of vocal music. Far from wanting to create a stamp of the traditional and to define the Mediterranean, Tarta Relena wants to make its own a repertoire that goes from music of oral tradition to songs of author that in one way or another are related to the geographical area of the Mediterranean.

Tarta Relena sings from the perspective that what we call folklore is a living and moving repertoire. Therefore, this reality is mouldable and can be reinterpreted with the instruments and sonorities that we now have within our reach. A key tool is the electronics with which they re-signify the melodies without leaving aside their origins. The study and knowledge of the path and the contexts that have given rise to these musics opens the doors of experimentation towards new meanings. In Tarta Relena's work there is also a desire to play at blurring the concept of authorship, bringing together anonymous traditional melodies and newly created songs under the same umbrella, treating them in the same way and placing oral transmission, the central element of tradition, at the centre.

‍One of the strong points of the project is the complexity in simplicity and the maximum expression with the minimum of elements. The repertoire work brings together the resources of different vocal techniques (flamenco, lyrical, traditional, jazz...), allowing a vast exploration of the possibilities of the voice.

In January 2019 Tarta Relena released her first album entitled Ora Pro Nobis (The Indian Runners, 2019), winner of the Enderrock Critics' Prize for the best folk album of 2019, which consists of eight a cappella songs with a subtle presence of electronics. In April 2020, during their confinement, they released their second work, Intercede Pro Nobis (The Indian Runners, 2020), recognised by Rockdelux as the best national EP of 2020, which emphasises the importance of the dialogue between voice and electronics.

Fiat Lux is their first full-length album and is an exploration of the concept of cyclicality through memory, nostalgia and the evocation of feelings.

globalFest

Sunday, January 14, 2024 at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall

Tarta Relena, 9:45-10:35pm

Wu Tsai Theater

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  • Generalitat de Catalunya Govern Illes Balears Ajuntament de Barcelona

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