Els Amics de les Arts
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Els Amics de les Arts is a Folk pop catalan band formed in Barcelona
in 2005.
Their first album Catalonautes was auto-edited in 2005. They woin the Best group award in the Sona 9, a contest for new Catalan bands. In 2006 they released their second album, Roulotte Polar, and in 2008 their first studio album, Castafiore Cabaret.
The music magazine Enderrock dedicated its edition of July 2008 to the group. Along with the magazine, a copy of Castafiore Cabaret was sold, reaching up to 8,000 copies. They performed a serie of shows until Summer 2009, when they started to record their fourth album, Bed and Breakfast.
Bed and Breakfast appeared on December 2009 and had wide acceptance by the critics. They performed up to 115 shows from October 2009 to February 2011, when they played at Palau de la Música Catalana
.
They also appeared in a famous TV spot from Estrella Damm
bier brand, official partner of FC Barcelona where recent sport success of this team was celebrated and related to catalan cuisine
and famous people
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The name of the band Els Amics de les Arts (The Arts' Friends) may be a play on words, in catalan language
a job is done for one's love to art when no salary is paid. It is also claimed to be a famous bar in Terrassa
.
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
in 2005.
Their first album Catalonautes was auto-edited in 2005. They woin the Best group award in the Sona 9, a contest for new Catalan bands. In 2006 they released their second album, Roulotte Polar, and in 2008 their first studio album, Castafiore Cabaret.
The music magazine Enderrock dedicated its edition of July 2008 to the group. Along with the magazine, a copy of Castafiore Cabaret was sold, reaching up to 8,000 copies. They performed a serie of shows until Summer 2009, when they started to record their fourth album, Bed and Breakfast.
Bed and Breakfast appeared on December 2009 and had wide acceptance by the critics. They performed up to 115 shows from October 2009 to February 2011, when they played at Palau de la Música Catalana
Palau de la Música Catalana
The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement...
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They also appeared in a famous TV spot from Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm is a Catalan pilsener. It has been brewed in Barcelona since 1876 and is the flagship beer of S.A. Damm, a prominent Barcelona brewery. "Estrella" means "Star" in both Catalan and Spanish....
bier brand, official partner of FC Barcelona where recent sport success of this team was celebrated and related to catalan cuisine
Catalan cuisine
Catalan cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Roussillon and Andorra, which has a similar cuisine to the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya comarques, often referred to as "Catalan mountain cuisine"...
and famous people
Catalan people
The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...
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The name of the band Els Amics de les Arts (The Arts' Friends) may be a play on words, in catalan language
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
a job is done for one's love to art when no salary is paid. It is also claimed to be a famous bar in Terrassa
Terrassa
Terrassa is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the comarca of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell, the historic capital....
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Discography
- Catalonautes (Pistatxo Records, 2005)
- Roulotte Polar (Pistatxo Records, 2007)
- Castafiore Cabaret (Pistatxo records, 2008. Revista Enderrock)
- Càpsules Hoi-poi [Disc de rareses] (Pistatxo Records, 2009)
- Bed & Breakfast (N57/Discmedi, December 2009)
- Bed & Breakfast Special Edition (Discmedi, 2010)