The new project of the musician, singer and composer Guiem Soldevila, aims to be a bridge through poetic-musical creation, based on the conception of a modern creator who puts music to the verses of different poets.
“Intimari” oscillates between acoustic folk and ambient pop, where each poem turned song generates a wide variety of emotions from which a strong consistency stands out, frequenting the precious aesthetics of the past but maintaining the fresh vitality of the modernity.
Guiem Soldevila: voice, choirs, piano, guitars, oud, prophet, percussions
Pau Cardona: cello
Lluís Gener: electric and acoustic bass
Moisés Pelegrí: percussion
Elena Armenteros: harp
Violant Menorca: violin
David Gomez: drums
Ponç Pons: recited Poetry
Production and arrangements: Guiem Soldevila
Mix: Mathias Chaumet
Mastering: Yves Roussel
Cover: Carles Gomila
Inside photo: Tomàs Rotger
Design: Manel Soldevila
Label: Satélite K
“Metaphora” It’s the first work composed entirely in English.
This project aims to be an immersive experience devised from real themes: investigating the individual and collective unconscious, and considering how many of the things that are happening today resonate with us.
"With an impeccable production, a very successful sound structure and deep themes, Metaphora; is the appropriate title to describe this work in which the imaginary and the real coexist perfectly within the same score."
Joan Trias, periodista
"Metaphora; is the new sound journey of Guiem Soldevila, singer and composer, who in this new work looks at the horizon from his Balearic vantage point. Music to dream."
Álvaro Soto, Radio Nacional de España
Starting from the premise that nothing can be taken for granted and everything is constantly changing, Fins demà o la propera metamorfosi marks a new cycle in the trajectory of Guiem Soldevila, giving way to a personal language where music expands from from pop to classical, from folk to electronic or rock to acoustic sensitivity.
This is not so much an album of a singer-songwriter as a restless musician who, beyond labels, sings, arranges and produces songs that tell us about inevitable twists, doubts, miracles, veils or daffodils that we all carry inside.
Recorded between France, Barcelona and Menorca, Fins demà o la propera metamorfosi has a great team of renowned musicians and collaborations within the Catalan scene such as Gemma Humet or Cece Giannotti that will make the live experience musically intense and visually well cared for.
All songs lyrics and music: Guiem Soldevila (except “Insula Mundi” and “Dona legit una carta vora la finestra oberta” with lyrics by Ponç Pons).
Voices and guitars: MC Studio by Mathias Chaumet at El Auvergne (France).
Drums: “La Atlántida” by Mario Patinyo (Barcelona).
Violins, cellos, voices and guitars of “Fins demà” and “Insula Mundi”: Forte-Music Bcn studio by Miguel Angel Forteza-Rey (Barcelona).
Bass, percussions and some choirs: Acústic Menorca Studio by Fel Casasnovas (Ciutadella de Menorca).
Produced by: Guiem Soldevila.
Mixed by: Mathias Chaumet to MC Studios (France).
Mastered by: Yves Roussel (Barcelona).
Design and photography by: Ivan Ivanovich.
Edit and distribute: Satelite K (Barcelona).
Guiem Soldevila: voice, guitars, piano, keyboards, charango, banjo, rhythm programming.
Miquel Casals: choirs, acoustic guitars.
Violant Menorca: violins and choirs.
Pau Cardona: cellos.
David Gómez: drums and percussion.
Lluís Gener: bass and electric double bass.
Jordi Cantos: handpan.
Moisés Pelegrí: percussions.
Martí Genestar: electric guitar.
Gemma Humet: voice.
Cece Giannotti: voice.
Amoramort is GuiemSoldevila’s third album.
His music is both intimate and fresh, with songs such as “La lluna sortirà després del sol” [The moon will rise after the sun], based on an African poem; “Gran buit” [Big emptiness] written by Soldevila, together with versions of songs by poets such as Màrius Torres, Konstandinos Kavafis, Sònia Moll and Mònica Grau. It is an album full of variety, where every song is a short journey, a unique universe.
Amoramort stands for contrasts, polarities –light and dark, life and death, masculine and feminine. It features more guitars, percussion, effects and string instruments than previous albums, while not forgetting intimate moments where a lone voice is accompanied by a piano.
Guiem Soldevila: vocals, piano, guitars, lute, bouzouki, citarina, lyre, percussion, drums.
Lluís Gener: double bass and bass guitar.
Violant Menorca: violin and vocals.
Moisès Pelegrí: percussion.
Pau Marquès: cello.
Martí Genestar: guitar on “Escriu-me”.
Ablaye Seck: djembe on “La lluna sortirà després del sol”.
Annabel Villalonga, Anna Ferrer, Pilar Timoner, Júlia Ligero, Mar Mascaró, Eva Carreras, Elena Riera, Sara Forner, Aina Fortuny: vocals on “La lluna sortirà després del sol”.
Produced by: Guiem Soldevila.
Mixed by: Guiem Soldevila and Lluís Gener.
Mastering: Fel Casanovas.
Graphic design: Estudi Grafema.
“Amoramort is a step towards the dimension of the senses ends where deep details emerge about the feelings of the bowels and notes covering the colors of an intense inner landscape.”
LLuís Gendrau (journalist and editor of the magazine Enderrock)
“No concessions to ease and lightness, Guiem Soldevila has made a smart, sensitive and memorable work.”
Ponç Pons (poet)
Nura is Guiem Soldevila’s second album, based on the long poem by Ponç Pons of the same name.
It is a longing treatise turned into song that evokes a mythic-paradisiacal Minorca, the ancient “Nura” where the poet lived during his childhood.
Nura is a universal poem, where current topics of media interest are interwoven through Pons’ unique lattice, with reflections and poetic images on film, philosophy, literature, religion and so on, to which Guiem Soldevila sets music and voice, going into the poetry and capturing the meaning of the words through his compositions.
Guiem Soldevila: voice, vocals, piano, guitars, lute, percussion and drums.
Lluís Gener: double bass and bass guitar.
Violant Menorca: violin and vocals.
Maria Àngels Gornés: Vocals in “Teoria de l’absència”.
Cover art: “Favàritx”, by Pacífic Camps.
Photographs: Marc Allès.
Graphic design: Tomàs Orell.
Produced and mixed: Guiem Soldevila.
Mastering: Fel Casasnovas.
“Guiem sets music to Nura by Ponç Pons, as the invisible hand fits the glove made from the fabric of the soul. The poet is fascinated. The result is quite right. The verses of Ponç Pons stir up our consciousness, and Soldevila’s music is, simply, extraordinary”.
Raquel Marquès, Diari de Menorca newspaper
“A complex album which I consider a fantastic endeavour. The work Guiem has done is not easy at all, you need experience to do it”.
LLuís Llach, cantant
“A very beautiful piece of work by composer Guiem Soldevila, Nura. Soldevila is not only a songwriter but a complete musician. When you finish feeling and listening to the album you feel you’ve been ‘saved by beauty’”.
Jordi Llavina, La Vanguardia newspaper
