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Reported picks, venue stories and scene guides connected to the Barcelona concert calendar.
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La Deskomunal’s Última Volta: three Sants farewells with bite
From Thursday, November 12 through Saturday, November 14, La Deskomunal SCCL marks its farewell season in three sharply different registers.
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Samara Joy brings her Portrait septet to the Palau
Friday’s 58th Barcelona Jazz Festival highlight puts Samara Joy’s expanding band sound in the Palau concert hall.
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Sala Salamandra’s weekend map: Peruvian rock, technical death metal and the 00:30 switch
Three sharply different bookings show how the L’Hospitalet room works across a single upcoming weekend.
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Flamenco’s two rooms: voices at 23 Robadors, guitars at the Palau
Three November dates trace flamenco through intimate ensemble exchange, guitar, percussion and dance.
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Tinta Roja’s three-night pulse: jazz, bossa and tango in Poble-sec
Three 20:30 concerts make an easy Poble-sec route for November 5–7, from jazz dialogue to Rio-rooted song and tango.
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Mouse on Mars opens Sala Apolo’s new immersive room
A Berlin electronic duo, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s final official album project, and a new way of hearing Sala Apolo converge for one focused night.
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23 Robadors keeps its Raval conversation moving, from flamenco’s first set to late jazz
From Nabila Guisado to Portrait of Jaco and Col·lectiu Vint·i·Tres, 23 Robadors makes two nights feel like one continuing exchange.
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From Ruel to Sound-Ay: a late-week route through voices, low end and vinyl
Start with two concise Sala 2 Razzmatazz concerts, then finish at Marula Cafe with Sound-Ay’s roots-facing dancefloor.
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Birdsong and Bernard Herrmann: a Palau orchestral image trail
Follow an orchestral thread from Pau Casals’s bird call to Hitchcock’s live-screen shock this Thursday and Saturday.
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Omega’s 30th anniversary brings its unfinished electricity to the Palau
A foundational collision of flamenco, distorted rock, Lorca and Leonard Cohen returns in a newly staged form.
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Friday’s bass continuum: goddard. at Razzmatazz, Skee Mask at Sala Apolo
On Friday, October 23, Razzmatazz and Sala Apolo offer two sharply different entries into bass-forward club music.
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Razzmatazz turns one Friday into a five-room club map
From Thursday 22 October through Sunday 25 October, Razzmatazz offers a compact lesson in how a multi-room club books its floors.
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A Thursday-to-Friday jazz relay, from Satchmo brass to 23 Robadors’ close-up
Start with a Louis Armstrong tribute at the Palau, then follow two compact 23 Robadors bills into Friday.
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Les Arts Florissants bring Handel’s Riccardo Primo to the Palau
A focused Baroque opera night makes Les Arts Florissants the essential trip of Barcelona’s October 22–25 weekend.
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Sala Apolo compresses three club identities into one October weekend
Three upcoming sessions reveal how Sala Apolo keeps its historic room in motion through distinct club communities.
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A 23 Robadors flamenco relay meets Michel Camilo’s Palau connection
Follow a weekend line from close-range flamenco ensembles in the Raval to a Latin-jazz trio at the Palau.
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Guzzo’s weekend route: bossa at dinner, selectors after dark, soul to close
Three forthcoming Guzzo sessions offer a paced route through live guitar, DJ-led groove and Sunday soul on October 16 and 18.
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La traviata gives Barcelona a full-scale opera night inside the Palau
A large cast, chorus, ballet and orchestra make this staged Verdi evening the focal concert of October 15–18.
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La Deskomunal SCCL’s October double bill captures a cooperative room in full range
Ahead of its planned year-end closure, La Deskomunal SCCL gives Thursday and Friday to two very different community-led nights.
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From Mingus to bossa: three small-room readings of jazz’s open borders
This week’s acoustic thread runs through 23 Robadors and Guzzo, where jazz meets flamenco repertoire and bossa nova dinner sets.
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Marula Café traces its groove language from Thursday’s jam to Saturday’s all-vinyl close
From October 8 to 10, Marula Café maps a compact route through funk, soul, house, disco and Latin-inflected club music.
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One Friday, three pop catalogues inside the Palau
On Friday, October 9, Petit Palau and the Concert Hall offer three distinct routes through familiar pop material.
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Albert Guinovart’s choral music gets a rare close-up at the Petit Palau
A Mass, two Catalan poetry cycles and a composer at the piano make this a finely focused opening to Barcelona’s October concert week.
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Mount Kimbie’s Kai Campos brings the project back to the club at Razzmatazz
A club-facing Mount Kimbie set, plus ALVVA and Jhort, gives Friday night at Razzmatazz a precise sense of occasion.
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La Terrrazza closes its open-air stretch with three distinct Montjuïc sessions
Three La Terrrazza dates from Thursday, October 1 through Saturday, October 3, move between live-minded selectors, house and local club energy.
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A late-weekend techno line: Function with Akua, then Flug at Moog Club
Two late-night bookings, October 3 and 4, trace techno through long-form exchange and local club continuity.
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Zoco’s rotating DJ pair gives Sala Salamandra two late-night readings of open-format pop
A recurring pair, two supporting-room guests and a tightly focused late-night plan for October’s first weekend.
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Sala Apolo’s Friday split: Villano Antillano, Stef Mendesidis and a POLYGLOT coda
Three rooms and three club perspectives shape Sala Apolo’s September 25–26 programme.
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Razzmatazz’s two-night route from Badsista to Mala, Nørbak and Dj2d2
Friday’s Badsista bill opens into a Saturday of bass weight, techno and a parallel Dj2d2 room.
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23 Robadors gives Coltrane’s music two changing Barcelona ensembles
From Irene Ribas’s flamenco quartet to two late Coltrane tributes, 23 Robadors gives September 24 and 25 a clear local focus.
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Espai Salvadiscos sets a three-night electronic route, from deep house to melodic techno
House, dark disco and progressive melodic techno shape a focused three-night run at Espai Salvadiscos.
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Jamboree’s Friday moves from hard bop to the late-night floor
A two-set hard-bop quartet and a midnight DJ session give Plaça Reial a sharply defined Friday route.
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Espai Salvadiscos opens its weekend with disco-funk, then settles into house
A vinyl-focused Poble-sec room gives Thursday and Saturday distinct tempos on September 17 and 19.
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Guzzo’s Born run moves from bossa nova dinner to Sunday funk
From Thursday, September 17 through Sunday, September 20, Guzzo makes a compact case for listening across the dinner table.
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Two nights of sharp-edged song at Sala VOL
A Thursday-to-Saturday route through new singles, noisy textures and compact club bills in Poblenou.
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Two September nights of song at Palau de la Musica Catalana
A debut-album anniversary and a flamenco ensemble make a focused Thursday-Friday route through the Palau’s Concert Hall.
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Sina Bathaie brings santur and electronic pulse to Sala Luz de Gas
For the September 10–13 week, an early concert of santur, oud and electronic rhythm offers a focused Thursday opening.
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La Terrrazza moves from a Summer Heroes closing to COEO’s disco-house Saturday
La Terrrazza’s September 10–12 programme pairs a local techno project with a Toy Tonics house fixture.
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Marula Cafe’s three-night groove map, from Holy Ray to Sound-Ay
Holy Ray, Kusuri and Sound-Ay make a concise case for following the selectors through the Gothic Quarter.
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Three nights, three club languages at INPUT
A compact Poble Espanyol run offers three sharply drawn electronic propositions before Barcelona’s September weekend fills out.
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Sala Apolo’s weekend of machines, Maghreb club sound and flamenco memory
Three events make Sala Apolo a focused stop during Barcelona’s upcoming September 10–13 concert weekend.
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23 Robadors’ three-show passage from jazz to flamenco
Jazz on Thursday gives way to two flamenco sittings on Saturday at the small live-music room in the Raval.
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Razzmatazz’s three-night route from perreo to Héctor Oaks
Perreo, trance, Brazilian club pressure, techno, and Rosa Pistola make a focused weekend inside one Barcelona complex.
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