“Sing without permission” It is the new book from the Barcelona native Toni Castarnado. Throughout its more than four hundred pages, it reviews the new female voices on our country’s music scene.
During the last decade, music in Catalonia has entered a process of profound transformation driven by a new generation of creators who have expanded the framework since it has been sung and composed. Their proposals dialogue with tradition from a free and conscious position, reformulate already inherited languages and open new expressive spaces without the need to break with the previous. It is not about a generation or a style, but about a different way of being in music. This is the topic it deals with “Sing without permission” of Toni Castarnado.
Throughout its more than four hundred pages we will find chapters dedicated to Rosalía, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, the sisters Neddermannurban artists, folk singer-songwriters and a long etcetera.
With the gaze of someone who has been observing, listening and telling the culture from within for years. Castarnado places these voices in a broader context, attending to their connections, tensions and resonances. “Sing without permission” It does not seek to establish a canon, but rather to offer the keys to understanding these artists. They are transforming the scene and there is no turning back. From established figures to emerging artists, the book covers a diverse soundscape in which roots and experimentation, memory and risk, inheritance and the search for new forms of expression coexist.
Toni Castarnado He has been writing about music for more than twenty-five years. She has written several books, some of them relating women and music. The last one was titled “The Q Girls”. He also devised the volume “In-Edit Made in Barcelona” and signed the texts of the twentieth anniversary reissue of “Omega”. In “Sing without permission”traces an attentive and transversal story of a scene starring women who are redefining the musical present.
“Sing without permission” It is published this week by Sílex
