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Dear everyone, I am so happy to finally be able to announce this double show in my beloved adopted city of Barcelona, on Sunday 26th April, organized by Foggy Hext, at Casa Montjuic and its sister club nextdoors Laut, info and tickets here :-)))

If you are not sure which one to go to, here is extra info to help you choose:

TIMES

CM: doors at 6 pm with exquisite DJ set by Taki Onqoi of Foggy Hex, my show starts at 7 pm for 1h15

Laut: doors at 8.50 pm, mix by yours truly to put you in the right mood, my shows starts at 9:30 for 1h15, and we close the night with Francisco Sosa’s elegant and danceable modular set

MOOD

Casa Montjuic: seated, listening experience really close to the album’s sound since I reamped the album with sound engineer Oswaldo Terrones (more about this below)

Laut: standing, with me in the middle of the room, to allow you to move to the sound of the music.

Here is a text I wrote in Spanish about why this feels so special to me :-)

“Hace 20 años, el 10 de febrero 2006, daba mi primer concierto en Barcelona, en el Mercat de las Flors, en lo que era tambien mi primera visita a la ciudad. Nunca hubiera podido adivinar que me mudaría aqui 13 años despues, coincidiendo con un intenso cambio personal y artístico. He encontrado en Barcelona un lugar perfecto para esta evolución: Libres antes del final es ya el tercer albúm que hago en mi pequeño home studio aqui, y sin duda es el disco que más porta la imprenta de la ciudad. Nació en conexión con la decisión de reaprender a nadar, pero en el mar, y es un paso más en mi amor por la síntesis, el proceso creativo que ha literalmente cambiado mi manera de hacer musica, y estando aqui me he podido nutrir de la fértil y generosa escena de síntesis modular local. Reamplificar el disco en mi sala favorita, Casa Montjuic, con el ingeniero de sonido Oswaldo Terrones, fue una manera potente de cerrar y celebrar el vínculo con la ciudad.

Por todos aquellos motivos, me emociona de verdad presentar este disco en directo aqui, en Casa Montjuic y Laut, mano en mano con Foggy Hex, que han organizado algunos de mis conciertos favoritos a lo largo de estos años de vida aqui.”

REAMPING SESSION OF LIBRES ANTES DEL FINAL IN CASA MONTJUIC, BARCELONA, WITH OSWALDO TERRONES, OCTOBER 19th 2025: PHOTOS BY MORGIANE REBOUH

And here are – at last – some photos taken by Morgiane Rebouh of the reamping session we did with sound engineer Oswaldo Terrones back on October 19th, which I shared on Instagram shortly afterwards, then did not upload here as I unfortunately went through a period of intense stress which took a toll on my ability to promote the album, and which fortunately has now ended, so now that I have announced the show at Casa Montjuic and I have recovered my spirits, it is the perfect time to do so :-)

On 19th October Mexican sound engineer Oswaldo Terrones came from Lisbon to reamp the album in an 8-hour-long work session at Casa Montjuic. Here are the questions I got asked the most whenever I mentioned this to people: What is reamping in an album context (people have often heard about it, but just for guitars)? What is the point? Wait, this is a venue, so you took your synth and played it live?
No, reamping is really about taking previously recorded sounds or entire pieces of music, amplifying them (in this case, using Casa Montjuic’s PA), placing microphones chosen for their sonic characteristics in the most appropriate spots of the room, and capturing the final results. What you get is the original music augmented by the PA + room acoustics + the microphones’ tonal characteristics.
The star of that day was without a doubt the famous Neumann KU100 binaural head, affectionately known as Fritz, and that first photo makes me smile a lot as it looks a little bit as if Fritz had just whispered something shocking into my ears.

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