After a breathtaking concert in 2022 at the gnration, the Catalan duo, Tarta Relena, returns to Braga to present their third and most recent album, És pregunta (2024). The project was born in 2016 by soprano Helena Ros and contralto Marta Torrella, two disparate timbres who together embrace in a polyphony of graceful and dissonant tones. For them, the starting point is the Mediterranean songbook, exploring the sacred and the profane with unique complexity and subtlety. The duo's new work is inspired by texts and songs “from this sea between lands”, in which choral music is central.
in which choral music is central, wandering between electronic ornamentation and the play on words and loops that masterfully turn this ancient poetic heritage into a modern masterpiece. Far from the Saxon language, Helena and Marta write these little treasures in Greek, Italian, Ladin, Sephardic, Catalan and Castilian, decentralizing the music of this era and keeping alive the mystery of the toada, of tragic thought and of the voices that have always inhabited the Mediterranean Sea. Anyone who has seen them live knows what we're talking about.