Gabriel Rufián was one of the guests of La Revuelta tonight (along with, for example, Javián) and has become the first active Spanish politician to appear on David Broncano’s program. The spokesperson for Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in Congress has spoken little about politics (he has claimed the right to housing) but he has exercised his profession in another way, for example, valuing culture and, specifically, music.
Rufián has arrived on the set loaded with curious gifts, among them, a pair of button-down tracksuit pants that he was caught wearing entering Congress last year. And he has also brought CDs of Catalan music. “They ask me to bring groups in Catalan,” he adds. Broncano remembers that various Catalan artists, as well as Galician or Basque artists, have attended La Revuelta, but what Rufián asks is that these co-official languages be heard more in the program through music.
Curiously, Rita Payés, author of ‘Corsé’ (2023), one of the albums that Rufián gives to Broncano, performed at La Revuelta last year… but she sang in Spanish. Rufián also gives away CDs of Buhos, La Fúmiga and the successful ‘Fruit del deliri’ (2024) by Oques Grasses, a very popular album nationwide. Oques Grasses is the typical group you would expect to see at La Revuelta but, for some reason, hasn’t been there yet. Broncano, for his part, mentions Manel among his favorite Catalan groups.
La Revuelta, since its premiere, has given some space to music sung in co-official languages: this year ÍZARO, together with Baiuca, sang ‘Xorieri’ in Basque. Or in the case of Abraham Cupeiro, to traditional Galician music.
A small complaint among how much we value that La Revuelta continues to be one of the few programs that bet on live music and interviewing very interesting artists, who are not always easy to see in other spaces.
