Here is the second wave of artists with 23 new names within the musical programming of the 13th edition of the festival, which is advancing in the calendar (from July 4th to 14th) and expanding to 12 towns and over 30 venues – indoor, heritage, natural, or museum spaces – across the four regions of Terres de l’Ebre. We also offer the first reduced-price early bird 1 or 2-day tickets. Here’s a summary of everything.

MUSIC AND AUDIOVISUALS AT THE AMPOSTA CASINO

Electronic composer Maya Shenfeld and experimental filmmaker Pedro Maia will present “Under the Sun,” a cycle of electroacoustic pieces for analog synthesizers, woodwind instruments, voice, and field recordings in dialogue with analog film. Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Serafín Álvarez will present “SPELL,” an audiovisual performance that explores a lysergic world populated by familiar and strange objects, where time, sound, space, and matter dissolve into a mixture of absurdity and magic. And on another sonic frequency, French artist Sophie Griffon (Odalie) will bet on raw emotions and moments of stillness and experimentation in a duo format, playing with delicate rhythmic patterns, complex string arrangements, and undeniable vocal virtuosity.

TRANSGENERATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND POETRY

The centenary hall of the Recreative and Instructive Casino of Amposta will host the most transgressive musical proposals, combining origins, genres, and ages, and with free admission. Aluet, the project of pianist Josep Vidal from Amposta, accompanied by the Vidal Ensemble, a young trio of double bass, cello, and viola. A soothing music of minimalist melodies and hypnotic loops. Also, bordering on electronics with orchestral touches, musician Raül Sala from Mataró, Tatsumi & Masako, will mix synth-pop sounds, 90s IDM rhythms, and ambient landscapes sprinkled with noise.

We will also see two veterans of experimentation: the legendary French composer and luthier Pierre Bastien will poetically mix the sounds of a trumpet and a viola with those of mechanical sculptures; and Tarragona’s cultural activist Antonio Luque will combine electronics and electroacoustics using pre-recorded loops or created on site with industrial sounds.

Poetry will play an important role in Eufònic 2024, as with the res_és_nostre project, edited by Hivern Discs by John Talabot, in which the borders between text, music, and sound textures blur. And, in collaboration with the Tortosa Jazz Festival, the Berlin-based group Dictaphone will celebrate its 25th anniversary in the lemon tree courtyard of the former slaughterhouse, taking us from experimental electronica to atmospheric jazz.

CONTEMPORARY VISIONS OF FOLKLORE AND TRADITION

Basque singer and producer Verde Prato draws from oral tradition and is inspired by popular songs to shape a contemporary electronic Basque neo-folk that ranges from light to tragedy and from bolero to pop. Also from folk, Galician percussionist, composer, and sound creator Mario G. Cortizo will present “Só un Solo” at the Renaissance palace of the Reials Col·legis de Tortosa, a concert that includes everything from a tambourine solo and electronics to small household appliances turned into instruments. And more from psychedelia, the British band Isidora, formed by French singer, keyboardist, and guitarist Laetitia Sadier from the famous band Stereolab, composer Marie Merle, and artists Blanca Regina and Pierre Bouvier, will present their improvisation project with music, performance, and analog visuals.

ROUGH NIGHTS AND URBAN SOUNDS

For the nights, we bet on the youngest artists. The Bilbao-born Infanta represents the desire to dance and let it all out to the rhythm of electronic pop-punk with a nightcore spirit; from Vall d’Uixó, the young singer, composer, and producer Xenia, one of the new names in the national dark scene, will travel from dream pop and synth-pop to darker and faster sounds; and the duo Balma, formed by Bernat Mola from Tortosa and Gerard Gamundi from Barcelona, will merge current urban music with genres like house, drum and bass, and UK Garage.

‘EUFÒNIC TERRA’: THE SINGULARITY OF THE TERRITORY

We are launching a new programming line linked to two unique elements of the Ebro regions, the DOP Baix Ebre / Montsià olive oil and the IGP clementine, proposing site-specific sound actions and musical performances in unique spaces such as olive fields or an old quarry. The Hermitage of Sant Roc, in the village of Paüls, located in the Ports Natural Park, will host a double program: a sound action by creator and technologist Albert Barqué-Duran, who has accepted the challenge of working with such a particular ingredient as the sound of dried clementines; and the performance of singer, double bassist, and composer Magalí Datzira, with diverse influences: from jazz-funk to electronic pop and from Mediterranean sounds to urban rhythms.

Female voices play a prominent role in Eufònic Terra. Composer Mar Pujol will present her first full-length album, a guitar and voice work to lower pulse rates, take a breath, and savor the silence. And to deepen the link between Ebro gastronomy and music, the restaurant Les Moles de Ulldecona, which boasts a Michelin star, will host a dinner + performance on Friday, July 5th, by composer and actress Aida Oset, who will present her first solo album, a project between electronics and author pop in Catalan that traces an intimate journey of falling and rising. This will be the only paid activity within the framework of Eufònic Terra (tickets will be on sale soon).

EBRO ART AND MEMORY

Writer Gabi Martínez proposes a critical walk to talk about the situation of the Delta and the island of Buda. Sediments, flamingos, farmers, ecologists, rice, hunters… The walk will end at the L’Alfacada Viewpoint, in front of the estuary, where Aragonese experimental musician and sound poet Gustavo Giménez will perform one of his incredible sound performances.The artistic duo formed by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde will also tour the Delta: they will be in artistic residence for three weeks for a research project related to plants and this natural habitat.

And if the landscape is present, the Memory of the Battle of the Ebro opens up new perspectives. In collaboration with COMEBE, the Consortium for the Memory of the Battle of the Ebro, and curated by Arnau Horta, the multifaceted Catalan artist Francesc Torres, a pioneer in the language of video installations and expert in the Civil War, collaborates with musician Riccardo Masari, an expert in strange instruments and the recovery of peculiar scores. In the Patio of the Old Schools of Gandesa, a midi player piano will perform the music of American composer and naturalized Mexican Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997), who fought in the Spanish Civil War enlisted in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against Franco’s faction. A genuine conjunction of stars in a unique space!

REDUCED PRICE TICKETS

The first subscriptions for Eufònic 2024 are now on sale at a discount (while supplies last). There are two types of subscriptions “Pardalet matiner / Early bird”: one-day (€25, includes all activities on Friday, July 12, or Saturday, July 13), and two-day (€40, for all activities on Friday, July 12 + Saturday, July 13). The subscription grants access to all paid concerts and audiovisual shows of the festival during the central days (July 12 and 13, subject to capacity), at the Amposta Casino and in the evenings.

EARLY BIRD TICKETS