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Emergència! 2014

Independent Music Festival

Emergència! is back. Now in its sixth year, this independent music festival continues to back names from the local, national and international scenes. This year are seven projects ranging from pop to folk, dipping into dream-pop and rock.

Jaime Casas

Cold Pumas: blessèd persistence

Jaime Casas

Seventh and final post about the groups playing Emergència! 2014. We’ve spoken to Kíar, Gente Joven, Escarlata, Desert, Cuello, Montgomery and, now: Cold Pumas. Over a blanket of repetition, melody. Over an abstract idea, precision. The world of Cold Pumas is built on apparent ...

Montgomery Clift is not an actor

Jaime Casas

Seville-born Miguel Marín is a veteran of high-risk music. His CV includes names like Sr. Chinarro, Piano Magic and Arbol, plus his current project of contemplative electronic music, halfway between sound art and open experimentation. Determined to make a radical change, he is striking ...

Cuello: urgently emergent

Jaime Casas

Instalment two in a series of eight profiles about the artistic remit of Emergència 2014. Cuello, the band of José Guerrero, fromValencia, is emerging as one of the liveliest proposals in the festival’s line-up since it started. Clear, simple and direct is what people are ...

Desert’s logical modernism kicks off Emergència! 2014

Jaime Casas

Every year, Emergència! focuses on the immediate future. It looks ahead and offers an insight into what’s happening at the grassroots of musical creativity, casting light on a scene that just keeps on growing. There’s no crisis in creation; imagination follows its course, ...

Emergència! 2014

Emergència! is back. Now in its sixth year, this independent music festival continues to back names from the local, national and international scenes. Cold Pumas (Brighton, United Kingdom), Cuello (Valencia), Escarlata (Madrid/Barcelona), Desert (Barcelona), Gente Joven (Leon), Kíar (L...