MORCHEEBA En Barcelona 22 de julio: Festival Grec Poble Español entrada: 24€ www.morcheeba.net

With 3 albums in the market and millions of copies sold throughout the world, Morcheeba is enjoying the fruits of success. Now they arrive in Barcelona with their latest work, Charango, where they continue building a style and personal sound, in the British tradition.

Elegance, romance, and melancholy for a music that breaks down borders throughout the world with influences from hip-hop to country, blues and Brazilian psychedelic. Classical traditions for a very modern group.

The Poble Espanyol is the stage for the concert of the elegant ‘trip-hop’ group of the United Kingdom, Morcheeba. But they are more than just a trip-hop group.

Morcheeba plays with music like they play with their own name which is the sum of MOR (that signifies ‘easy listening music’) and CHEEBA, the name of a type of cannabis en argot. The result is a type of drug with therapeutic effects, like their sensual and mystic melodies.

The group is formed by the Godfrey brothers (Ross y Paul) and his wife Shye Edwards, the jazz vocalist that gives voice to the rhythms of Morcheeba.

In High School, the Godfrey brothers organized parties where they mixed records of soul, blues and jazz. When the exotic voice of Shye appeared, they knew they had found what they had been looking for all along.

From love at first sound, have emerged 3 albums. The first in 1996, ‘Who can you trust?’, which signified the bombshell that put them in the spotlight, thanks to the critics, in the trip hop movement, at the side of Massive Attack and Portishead.

With 'Big calm' (1998) they found a special treatment of jazz, with soul music and pop influences that resulted in an album with touches of reggae and rap.

Their last work, Su 'Fragments of freedom', has an air of pop, folk and psychedelic Brazilian beats over the base of the British tradition loaded with the elegance of soul, blues and jazz.

The Poble Español is the stage for their next concert the 22 of july. The event promises to be fun with a kind of music that drinks from a multitude of sounds and styles that captivates you as soon as you hear the voice of Shye Edwards.