The meeting of friends that, in 2017, gave rise to an unofficial return of Sau under the Sau30 brand It already has the appearance of a normal and active group, and after the ‘revival’ the album of new songs has arrived, ‘Mil i una nits i uns quants dies’, which framed this Thursday’s concert at the Palau. Night of reaffirmation of a generation of musicians and audience, and of a historical sound that the band does not renounce, given that the new songs revive the old spirit without complexes or modernization pretensions.
These are pieces that ranged between the guitar ‘riff’ of ‘Trossets de mi’ and the nice mid-tempo ‘El dia menys pensat’; the eighties mirage, bathed in synthesizers, of ‘Potser és allò que en diuen fer-se gran’, and a flagrant lightness like ‘Color de sang’. In his day, Sau cultivated at the same time the adult sound (of a timeless FM rock) and the tune with youthful outbreaks, and the new repertoire preserved that balance, thus making good friends with the classic numbers, which were, above all, from the albums ‘Quina nit’ (1990) and ‘El més gran dels sinners’ (1991).
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These resurfaced with neat ways, by the original musicians, with Pep Sala in frontaccomplices like the fine guitarist Josep Lluis Perez (former head of the Los Burros-El Último saga) and guests such as the violinist Simone Lamberts. To cover as much as possible the absence of Carles Sabater was in charge Jonathan Argüelles, precise and elegant within the coordinates of the paper, in those songs that in their day applied the lyrical molds of ‘anglo’ music to Catalan, such as ‘Envia’m un àngel’ and ‘Tu encens el meu foc’. And although the future that awaits Sau30 is unknown, we do know that Sau has, for that ‘Boig per tu’ that set the Palau on fire, a guaranteed place in the annals of our music.