October 9 to 19
9 Oct | 20.00h 
CABIN MUSIC
by James Carson
Sala Buñuel | CIC El Almacén 
3.00€ 3.00€ 3.00€ 3.00
10 Oct | 20.00h
TOUCH-ME-NOT
(aka Hara Alonso)
visuals by Miguel G. Morales
Sala Buñuel | CIC El Almacén 10.00€.
12 Oct | 20.00h
MARIO BATKOVIC
SOLO
Cueva de los Verdes Auditorium 15.00€.
15 Oct | 20.00h
RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO
OPUS, by Neo Sora
Sala Buñuel | CIC El Almacén 3.00€ 3.00€ 3.00€ 3.00
16 Oct | 20.00h
ANOUAR BRAHEM
QUARTET
Jameos del Agua Auditorium 20.00€.
17 Oct | 20.00h
BJÖRN MEYER
Provenance
Cueva de los Verdes Auditorium 15.00€.
18 Oct | 20.00h
URHO
Live A/V
Sala Buñuel | CIC El Almacén 10.00€.
19 Oct | 20.00h
ECHO COLLECTIVE
plays Amnesiac
Jameos del Agua Auditorium 15.00€.
9 OCT | 20:00HS CINEMA
CABIN MUSIC
by James Carson
2022 / USA-Canada / 74 minutes
Sala Buñuel: CIC El Almacén
3.00€
When a spiritual crisis prompts him to leave the constraints of the conservatory, pianist and filmmaker James Carson embarks on a journey of evolution, discovering new connections between music and the natural world.
His travels from Spain to Japan culminate in a cabin he builds in the Canadian wilderness, where his experiences merge into a new form.
Here, away from it all, a new form of music emerges.
Cabin Music is a genre-defying lyrical feast for the senses, a testament to the dual transcendent power of music and nature.
Best Editing Award – Salem Film Fest 2023
10 OCT | 20:00HS
TOUCH-ME-NOT
(aka Hara Alonso)
visuals by Miguel G. Morales
[…] electrified by desire so that they touch not touching.”
Anne Carson, The bittersweet
Sala Buñuel: CIC El Almacén
10.00€
touch-me-not arises as a reflection on the relationship between the skin and what surrounds it: a surface, the ocean, a dried flower.
Experiencing sound as matter that permeates the body as weight and texture, the skin becomes a transducer.
Through a deep listening experience, Hara Alonso introduces the audience to a collage of field recordings, ASMR, piano and nostalgic synthesizers, oscillating between hypersensitive intimacy and dense emotional layers.
Hara Alonso is a pianist, composer and sound artist based in Stockholm.
Her compositional process is based on bodily experience, exploring multisensorial practices, memory, space and imagination as instruments for sound creation.
Her music has been presented in many festivals as ensemble, soloist, sound installation and electroacoustic music.
Miguel G. Morales is an independent filmmaker.
His work is situated on the periphery of non-fiction with a strong documentary, investigative and essayistic character.
Hara Alonso: Piano and electronics
Miguel G. Morales: Visuals
Ellen Soderhult: Voice
12 OCT | 20:00HS
MARIO BATKOVIC
SOLO
Cueva de los Verdes Auditorium
15.00€
Blending classical and contemporary sound, composer Mario Batkovic seeks to explore the sonic possibilities of the accordion, without effects or loops, through a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between man and instrument.
Challenging, hypnotic and grandiose; Batkovic’s symphonic vision is unique and has received widespread critical acclaim, including Rolling Stone magazine, which included his eponymous debut album in the Top 10 Best Vanguard Albums of 2017.
Batkovic is an aesthete, as he demonstrates in the quality of his writing and arrangements.
Challenging, experimental and always mesmerizing, his music transcends conventional boundaries.
As a composer, producer and performer, he combines various musical disciplines, taking the accordion to new levels.
Their latest album “INTROSPECTIO” is a self-questioning and self-examination of society and the meaning of sound, taking the listener on a journey through infinite sound universes.
It features collaborations with electronic wizard James Holden and former BEAK member> Matthew Williams aka MXLX, plus drummer Clive Deamer (Radiohead/Portishead/Robert Plant/Roni Size), saxophonist Colin Stetson and concert choir Cantus Domus.
Batkovic has toured the world and performed at festivals and venues such as Bushfire (South Africa), Supersonic (UK), Le Guess Who (Netherlands), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Foundation Cartier (Paris) and Berghain (Berlin).
He has contributed compositions for films and video games such as Die Schwalbe (2016), Neighbours (2021) and Red Dead Redemption II (2018).
Mario Batkovic: Accordion
Ildefonso Aguilar: Visuals
Web
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDJ6tBkvbh4
Listen to Mario Batkovic
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZksCv8u4BDFRzKCRyIa3U?si=xiQKbAGSRrOWc8QuRt8V9Q
15 OCT | 20:00HS CINEMA
RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO
OPUS, BY NEO SORA
2023 / Japan / 103 minutes
Sala Buñuel | CIC El Almacén
3.00€
Japanese composer Ryūichi Sakamoto, author of such memorable soundtracks as those of The Last Emperor or Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Lawrence offers his last performance in this moving concert, filmed by his son, shortly before his death.
With his only presence, his piano and no audience, he reviews his career through twenty specially selected pieces, in an impressive film that evokes the passage of time.
Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepuoHnrO5
Listen to Ryūichi Sakamoto
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tcgfoMTT1szjUeaikxRjA?si=OcWdtIYYQEyv06_VeR-cGw
16 OCT | 20:00HS
ANOUAR BRAHEM QUARTET
Jameos del Agua Auditorium
20.00€
For almost forty years and with a rich discography that already includes no less than 11 albums on the ECM label, Anouar Brahem never ceases to place the millenary tradition of Arabic music, through his lute and his superb finesse, in different situations where he not only contrasts it with modern jazz, but also with the sophisticated harmonies of the erudite compositional tradition of the West and the refined forms of other ancient cultural traditions of the East.
For this occasion, Anouar has reunited the quartet created in 2009 for the album The Astounding Eyes of Rita, in a project that revisits his old sound space through a repertoire that combines several of the usual themes of this quartet, along with some pieces taken from previous albums(Conte de l’incroyable amour, Madar, Thimar, Astrakan Café…).
At the head of this group, more alive and creative than ever after ten years of close rapport between him and his musicians, Anouar Brahem now launches a new look at his musical universe, opening new sonic horizons.
Anouar Brahem is the artist who has participated the most times in our Festival.
This will be the third time that the Tunisian musician has been part of the Festival program, after his participation in 1996 and 2000.
Anouar Brahem: lute
Klaus Gesing: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
Björn Meyer: bass
Khaled Yassine: percussions
Ildefonso Aguilar: Visuals
17 OCT | 20:00HS
BJÖRN MEYER, Provenance
Cueva de los Verdes Auditorium
15.00€
Experiencing a solo performance by Björn Meyer has consequences.
You are invited to enjoy an irresistible universe of sounds that redefines what an electric bass is capable of as a solo instrument.
Deep, pulsating ambiences, outer-world sonorities, Nordic-inspired folk songs, archaic-sounding hymns, high-energy outbursts and minimal pattern structures, all fused into a solid unity.
Meyer’s unmistakable sound is testament to his incessant curiosity.
His work defies categorization, fusing the acoustic with the electric, the composed with the improvised, and Western with Eastern influences.
Beyond his solo career, Björn Meyer has forged important and long-lasting collaborations in diverse musical landscapes.
Of particular note is his collaboration with Tunisian lute master Anouar Brahem, with whom he also participates in this edition of the Festival.
Björn Meyer began his musical journey on the outskirts of Stockholm with piano, choral singing, trumpet and grunge guitar before discovering the electric bass shortly before his 18th birthday.
A few notes, played on an abandoned instrument, ignited a lifelong passion that profoundly influenced his life.
Since the 2017 release of his first solo album “Provenance” on the ECM label, Meyer has captivated audiences with solo concerts throughout Europe, Japan and Iran.
He has performed in concert halls, clubs, festivals, churches and TV studios.
Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Ronnie Scott’s in London, Pit Inn in Tokyo to name a few.
Björn Meyer: Six-string electric bass guitar
Ildefonso Aguilar: Visuals
18 OCT | 20:00HS
URHO Live A/V
Sala Buñuel: CIC El Almacén
10.00€
URHO is a performative project based on the sound and images recorded by the audiovisual artist Iván Torres Hdez on board the icebreaker of the same name, flagship of the Finnish fleet.
The complex and deep sound of the field recordings is the basis of a soundscape interpreted live by the musician and sound artist Xoán-Xil López and by Iván Torres himself through the use of synthesizers and radio systems to which instruments built by Xoán-Xil are added.
The piece has a character of improvisation and dialogue between the two artists who react to the visuals where documentary style images are mixed with celluloid animation.
The impassive presence of the crew contrasts with the constant motion and deafening sound as the icebreaker makes its way through an icy Baltic Sea surrounded by an almost lunar landscape.
Ivan Torres Hdez is an audiovisual artist based in Finland and Galicia.
His performative work mixes images from his film projects with experimental music and sound art.
Xoán-Xil is a sound artist and researcher and his work revolves around phonographic practice (field recording) and sound experimentation in the form of installations, immersive listening situations, compositions, performances and texts.
Iván Torres: Electronics and visuals / Electronics and visuals
Xoán-Xil López: Sintes y electrónica / Synths and electronics
19 OCT | 20:00HS
ECHO COLLECTIVE plays Amnesiac
Jameos del Agua Auditorium
15.00€
It must not be easy to face the reinterpretation of an album in a fresh and different way while maintaining a respectful attitude towards the original.
Even less so when the album in question is as famous and beloved as Amnesiac, by the acclaimed Radiohead.
But the Belgian neo-classical group Echo Collective is no stranger to such challenges.
The orchestral group formed around Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, regular collaborators on A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Stars Of The Lid, Dustin O’Halloran and Jóhann Jóhannsson (whom they accompanied during their 2017 performance at this very Festival), surprised with their reworking of a black metal album by the infamous Burzum.
The artistic director of Brussels’ main concert hall, Ancienne Belgique, was quick to commission the “house band” to also cover Amnesiac. The result exceeded all expectations.
One of the greatest albums of all time, arranged for string trio, harp, piano, bassoon/contrabassoon, clarinet/bass clarinet/baritone saxophone and orchestral percussion, was given new life.
The virtuosic group preserved the nuances and delicacy of the original, infusing it with classical renown and grandeur.
Echo Collective will prove in Lanzarote, once again, that it is far from being a pale echo or a cheap copy, but rather a spectacular post-classical project through and through. Margaret Hermant: violin and harp Amalija Kokeza: viola Corentin Dellicoiur: cello Gary De Cart: piano Helene Elst: bassoon Antoine Dandoy: percussion Yann Lecollaire: clarinet and saxophone Ildefonso Aguilar: Visuals
Web
https://www.echocollective.be/
Vídeos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jhRqNbm4Bo
Listen to Echo Collective plays Amnesiac
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ny0Z5uEQtUdNYPmvHCNAI?si=Ey05p5hpRBCQxeaKhcnkkw