Martes 18 Dic 2007, 20:02

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Mesclat is a group within catalan scene that mixes rock and folk giving an hybrid combination. Built in 2000 with musicians arrived from several bands and styles, they archieved a georgeous result so powerful which incites to dance.

They are Joan Reig at drums comming from Els Pets, Francesc Ribera "Titot" at vocals Brams,Carles Belda at the accordion from Pomada, Marcel Casellas at bass from Marcel Caselles Sextet Folk, Pep Toni Rubio at xeremia, gralla, flabiol and tamborino(wind and percussion instruments of the traditional music from Catalonia) from Ximbomba Atòmica and Música Nostra and at least, David Rosell guitar from Dept..

With traditional intruments and songs, as well as own songs, Mesclat looks for a rehabilitation of catalan traditional roots, musics and language with a hight quality result. And Never ever fotgets the lyrics, with a great amount of political, historical and social content.
They had 2 albums:
Mesclat (2002) and Manilla (2004), and just now come the thirth one, called Cròniques colonials.

The first single of Cròniques Colonials (Colonial Chronicles) is Crema Catalana, and the video is very representative of catalan traditions. You can see there capgrossos (headies), gegants (giants), diables (fireworks demons)… i think that only castellers (human towers) are not there.

Mesclat - Crema Catalana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H3m0NFam8Y

The second vid is from the first album, Torna Serrallonga and speaks from a catalan "hero" of the modern age (XVI-XVII centuries), Joan Sala i Ferrer who was a bandoler(an outlaw) in the same way than Robin Hood for English people, and even had an appearance in Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Mesclat - Torna Serrallonga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oidtNQQ3f10&feature=related