RPS Presents

Sergi charla un rato con Verde Prato después de inaugurar con su concierto el recinto del Fòrum de este Primavera Sound 2022.

Ben Cardew spoke to a legend of French music, Jean-Benoît Dunckel, perhaps better known as half of the iconic duo Air, but also a solo artist and renowned soundtrack composer. He has a new album, Carbon, out on June 24. We talked ambiguity, space, Sex UFOs and the current state of Air.

Johann Wald caught up with Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear/ Department of Eagles) to talk about the making of his sublime solo album, You Belong There, getting lost in the wilderness, balancing fatherhood with a life on the road and the key influences that inspired him to become a musician.

Today we welcome to Radio Primavera Sound a man once called the future of West African music: it is Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer Omah Lay. Ben Cardew and Voodoo Club’s Uncle Yems talk to Omah about the influence of his father, the original boy alone, the incredible rise of Afrobeats and collaborating with Justin Bieber. Omah Lay is playing Barcelona on Wednesday May 11: https://www.salarazzmatazz.com/ca/11-05-2022/omah-lay

In English, their name may suggest a certain timidity; but Mildlife, from Melbourne, Australia, are anything but cowards. Over two studio albums, 2018’s “Phase” and 2020’s “Automatic”, the band have gained a reputation for adventurous and distinctly astral psychedelic jazz, which brings to mind a meeting point between Roy Ayer’s sunshine jazz funk and the cerebral early wanderings of Pink Floyd. Ahead of the band’s first Spanish dates - they play Barcelona on May 7 and Madrid on May 8 - RPS spoke to the band’s bass player Tomas Shanahan about lockdown blues, the power of automation and playing to penguins.

Radio Primavera Sound spoke to Lucient - aka Barcelona producer Mario G Quelart - about Sa Casa des Carbo?, his wonderful new album of Ibizan ambience, inspired by the Balearic sea and inner journey. 

caroline is a London-based octet that make the kind of gentle slow-core music where silences are just as important as the melodies and lyrics. Johann Wald chatted to one of the band's members, Jasper Hughes, about the beginnings of the group, their bond over post-rock bands like Slint, Aerial M and Mogwai, and playing soft as an antidote to the stresses of big city life.

Radio Primavera Sound presenta la listening party d''Un Minut Estroboscòpica' (Primavera Labels, 2022), el retorn d'Antònia Font. Joan Miquel Oliver passa per l'estudi de RPS per comentar una a una les cançons d''Un Minut Estroboscòpica'.' al costat de Sergi Cuxart i diferents convidats de la família musical del grup i de l'escena mallorquina.

Jenny Hval’s new album Classic Objects is another highlight in a long and storied career, that has taken in everything musically from experimental folk to spoken word, as well as three novels. RPS spoke to her in the week that the album is released, to talk pop, freedom, utopia and the genius of Lush.

Shabaka Hutchings has arguably done more than anyone to spearhead the explosion in British jazz talent we have seen over the last decade, thanks to his work with Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors and The Comet Is Coming. Sons of Kemet play two Spanish dates next week: Madrid Independance on Wednesday March 2 and Barcelona's Sala Apolo on Thursday March 3. (More info here: https://www.primaverasound.com...). Ben Cardew spoke to Shabaka about sonic poems, the power of the tuba and other queens.