Tarta Relena
About
Marta Torrella and Helena Ros.
The project was born in 2016 by two singers who explore a cappella the sounds of the different styles in vocal music. Tarta Relena wants to build a repertoire that goes from traditional music to original songs that are related to the geographical area of the Mediterranean. They do not fear to widen the limits of the sacred and the profane. Experimentation is the core of their identity, and the blend of vocal techniques is their creative engine. In the arrangements, the two very different timbres live together with the synthetic sounds and electronic samples. Always looking for complexity in simplicity and maximum expression with the minimum of elements.
Tarta Relena presents “És pregunta”, a new album that flirts with the notion of tragic thinking: diverse characters who find themselves facing unstoppable consequences, known and unknown at the same time. A conceptual mix of what fate has ready for us, our thirst for knowledge and the inability to integrate future versions of ourselves. They try to capture in music and lyrics the tension and mystery of what we do not understand, coming from logics that escape our usual ways of existing.
“Tarta Relena’s songs are a testament both to the porousness of borders and the ideas that unite disparate cultures, running beneath the centuries like a pedal tone.” Pitchfork
Discography
És pregunta (2024)
Latency
Recorded by Juan Luis Batalla Aparicio at Etopia studio and in the garage at Vallirana
Produced per Tarta Relena, with the inestimable help of Juan Luis Batalla Aparicio and Borja Ruiz Esteban in the finish
Mixed by Borja Ruiz Esteban
Mastered by Silas Bieri
Guitar on Mano Décima by Juan Luis Batalla Aparicio
Percussion samples by Hello Samples
Cover “Look” (2020) by Katharina Schilling
Translation into English by Simon Berrill except Amvrosías, by Anne Carson
Graphic design by Ana Habash
Creative directors Souleymane Said & Sidney Gérard.
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11.01.2025
EL MORELL
Teatre Auditori
17.01.2025
GRONINGEN
Eurosonic
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BERLIN
CTM Festival
25.01.2025
LJUBLJANA
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08.02.2025
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14.02.2025
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22.02.2025
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06.03.2025
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PARIS
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26.03.2025
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28.03.2025
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13.03.2021
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27.06.2021
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30.07.2021
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15.09.2021
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08.10.2021
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10.10.2021
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24.10.2021
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28.10.2021
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12.11.2021
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18.11.2021
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20.11.2021
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28.11.2021
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25.01.2020
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19.02.2020
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13.06.2020
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