And with modesty, Quimi Portet | Music | EUROtoday

I learn A smoking by Mossèn Cinto who wonders what birds say with their songs. For instance. “The rooster gets up early in the morning, but not to follow the Council of the Oreneta and go to Montserrat, but to get to Baladre as a marmany of the square:-I am from Vic. I am from Vic. As if we were given something that was from Vic or Girona. ” The Little Folgueroles chaplain is correct. In the top the phrases are left and it doesn’t matter from the place they’re pronounced. Those of Quimi Portet have gone to a e book, Songs in Bell Llemosí (1987-2020)which publishes the second periphery and of which I obtain the fee of eschatir from which stream they movement, so to talk with the romantic influence I discover that the event requires. It additionally appears in the identical opinion as Verdaguer the author Kiko Amat, who in 2018 did an excellent interview in Portet. It has that attribute depart of condescension Xarnega, extra targeted on the ten years of rock star within the language of all Spaniards than within the actuality of Catalan artisan singer -songwriter of the final thirty. CONTEXT: In 1998, The Last of the Row, a Panhispanic Success Set, dissolved, leaving six albums and a group of royalties juicy which have allowed Portet, kind of, to the one who has appeared. In Catalan. This, in response to Amat, is to “fold geographically and culturally”. Anyway. But the interview is superb.

Portet, a homeland

There, within the journal Jot Downour self -proclaimed inter -county star is a “Catalan and Barcelona musician”. But at this time he receives me within the historic middle of Vic, the place he has been residing and dealing for 20 years, and he has a really sturdy sense of symbiosis and identification of the musician with the town. Unexpected, as a result of nothing in Portet’s creative manufacturing could make us consider an illustrious vigatà, resembling those that lifted a Roman temple from a chunk of Roc. Context: In the center of the Renaissance, native prohoms such because the Canon Collell and Bishop Morgades, discovered in the course of Vic the demanding stays of a temple of the primary century and determined to reconstruct it from a tiny escape. With nice need, fairly just a few cash and stone of folgueroles that they used to erect royal columns and self-medicate them. It is the strategy that Portet has used to construct his viganity (which I interpret as his option to take root a Catalan work), and he begins to elucidate it to the Vetust Sanctuary, now besieged by the scaffolding as all of the necessary locations within the nation. Like the Camp Nou, just like the Sagrada Familia, like Catalonia itself. This decadentist tone just isn’t theirs, it’s mine, however though it is a dialogue, I’m who wrote, as Kiko Amat wrote since his Bias Canallita.

Portet’s tone is that of an optimistic and enthusiastic particular person. “I will be punished for being so happy, but everything will be fine,” he abruptly comes out of a bit of Catholic fault, “thinks that I have a friend who tells me that I would have to be depressive, instead of antidepressants.” In reality, he’s conscious of the antibodies that their power assaults can arouse, and continuously nuances them with ironies and deflades; A deep and extreme aversion to the crush and transcendentality. “I have perfectly identified the moment I am starting to be happy: I was 15 years old and since then I have not stopped being. The world is a lot of fun! Everything makes laugh. ” With the goodness that characterizes him, Portet refuses to speak about what occurred earlier than this time of Epiphany. But then he lifted the flight of the Barcelona household nest that his dad and mom had established and began a nomadic life. He has lived all over the place and the anecdotes he’s letting go appear to certify it. Until twenty years in the past he returned to Vic, the nation of the grandparents, a type of arcadia, though it’s tough for us to see the stigmatized area. A flat was purchased in a historic constructing within the middle and even had the place of President of the Community of Neighbors. “The legacy of my governing action was a ping-pong table,” which remains to be flashing, within the courtyard entry to the steps.

Inside the room, in a modest and comfy room like him, there are books, guitars and a type of soundproof black cabin to file voices, which is like having a Tardis de Dr. Who within the eating room. Of the devices, it’s particularly cofoi of a Gibson Les Paul that was purchased in London in 1994 (“ This was a whim ”), and within the books I educate the Grammar of Jeroni Marvà with which he discovered Catalan within the lengthy journeys by bus for Spain on the tour of El Lasto. “Everyone was in hangover and I took the opportunity to learn English with a teacher we rented, read the full work of Josep Pla and learn Catalan. Think that at school I was not taught. The language is everything. ” However, “all generations have thought they were the last, it is nothing more than a vanity.” Portet is a bibliophile, with a chic Etruscan exlibris made by Professor Graziani of Naples, and has a particular penchant for grammars, languages ​​and something informative that awakens his curiosity. Now learn Montaigne, on this French pre -revolutionary that appears a bit Catalan. With the second beer I encourage myself to admit that the final one of many row by no means me very a lot, for Spaniards. And I apologize as a result of now that I’ve heard them as a giant one, as a result of they weren’t so unhealthy. “No, if I would have done like you, but you have to think that it was part of it.” Unquestionable, however I discover a little bit of concern of what I can write and desperate to please, as if it have been extra necessary the well being of the dialog than the reality. Shut up that isn’t the case. My suspicions are light and the subject is molded: “Look, I was already tip, of the tours of El Lasto. In fact, things are simpler, and that story ended because I was a father and having a girl is incompatible with life on the road. Since then, since the ten -year stage was closed, I have only taken a plane twice. To go to a wedding in Morocco and a burial in Ibiza. ” Understood. CONTEXT: Now, lately, Quimi Portet is a very dynamic and engaging grandfather, an awesome poet of small life, who says issues as a result of “it is much more fun to disappear.” His clear lives in Taradell, 9 kilometers from Vic.

Portet, a poetic

We are going to have lunch. It takes us to a spot referred to as Fonda, however it’s a very civic restaurant the place it’s eaten fairly properly. Behind the desk is a big portray with a painted sausage that helps me to not lose sight of the Quimi Portet entice. A really properly -orchestrated entice consisting of hiding a colossal artist behind a facade of on a regular basis affability. The aim is all the time to scale back the ego and grandiloquence, however the sausage is there, persistent. The similar factor occurs with the Portet songs. I’m admitted that he likes to make noise and that the bare lyrics of music, now that we now have the chance to learn them within the monastic gathering of paper, they can not disguise what they’re: a real poetry, a language that has inoculated us with out realizing it. He continues with the tactic of presenting himself as “Lo Bell butcher”, a “Espaviladet guitarist”, “Half Verdaguer and a half Tarzan”, however the e book threatens its attribute flight beneath the radar and the primary voices that declare a prize of Catalan letters have already been heard. It can be a misfortune, nevertheless it may hardly argue in opposition to it.

I’m on the lookout for a synthesis, a haiku who represents the way in which Portet joins the phrases, and I suggest: “We will graze between the lilies / around Sant Andreu, / Pixant we will make a aim with the snowmen”. A bit of bucolic pastoral care, a pinch of ironic custom, a stretching to dislike. It is nearly a grasp method that we are able to discover repeated on many events, particularly from the creator and writer they’ve dubbed the “second period”, from 2004 and the false exile in Vic. We like an instance of the “ equivocal and beast lyricism ”, and confesses that this liberating eschatology, so Catalan, has been a friction level with the island surrealism of Joan Miquel Oliver, who’s extra ethereal and fewer clinging to the shit of the Catalan mountain, which doesn’t stink. We additionally discuss Sisa, Adrià Puntí or Albert Pla, however presumably Oliver is with whom he has discovered probably the most creative confluence in current occasions. I proceed to have a most popular file of a pre-era of excessive type purification, the 1999 electromagnetic songbook, and Portet is correct for me, however solely to make me really feel good. Thank you, instructor.

“The sacrality of music has been lost. Before, when we had a Vespino and four albums, music was a very important thing and now it is something more. But I am motivated to make a record just as in 1975 “. This is the reply, zigzagging, to the query of whether or not there will likely be extra Portet songs, as a result of we now have not been new since 2018 and has simply planted us a written “legacy”. But he doesn’t need to hear of wills. “At my age, talking about death is a patxanguero topic.”

Portet, a modesty

In the tune ‘Francesc Pujols’, Quimi Portet urges a type of canon, a listing of nice names linked to a poetic and musical custom of the nation. In reality, Pujols just isn’t eager about mystique, as others, however the anecdote, which is all the time juicy. “We are a country of artists educated in originality, romanticism and voluntarism and we are secretly proud of not being a practical culture. That is why we have not disappeared. ” This checklist is mindless or cohesion, and he’s naturally included. We ought to transfer from the Honor Award and go from PET to postulate the Nobel. Everything will likely be nice. I really like you, tortilla.

Songs in Bell Llemosí 1987-2020

The second periphery
Foreword by Quim Monzó. Epilogue of Manolo García
312 pages. 23.90 euros