Over to France tonight for a set by Spain’s very own Melenas – recorded on March 30, 2024 at Les Vinzelles festival by Fait-Divers, a new film/audio collective out of France who have been doing some very forward-thinking concerts by some great new, emerging talent.
Melenas have been around a short while, since 2016 – they are from Pamplona, Spain and have been establishing themselves as a band to watch. Members are Oihana Melenas (guitar, vocals), Leire Melenas (bass), María Melenas (keyboards) & Laura Torres (drums) – here’s a blurb from their Bandcamp page to give you some idea if you aren’t already familiar:
Indie pop quartet Melenas hail from Pamplona, Spain, a picturesque region nestled just south of the Pyrenees. Such beauty can’t help but inform the band’s songwriting, but Melenas aren’t content to just sit placidly & take in the scenery. Since they burst onto the scene in 2016, the band has hit the ground running, playing incessantly both locally & on the stages at national festivals like Primavera Sound & Eurosonic as well as releasing a debut full length (2018’s “s/t” album) and a 7-inch single both triple-released on local labels Elsa, Nebula & Snap! Clap! Club. Trouble In Mind is honored to be releasing their new album Dias Raros and is the first label outside of Spain to release Melenas music to the world.
We’ve come a long way since the days where Rock was a “boys only” club – we’ve also come a long way from English being the only language of Rock – it’s refreshing and it’s wonderful to see (and hear). We didn’t have nearly any of this in the 70s (and virtually none of it in the 60s or earlier) – that it’s finally evolving where music is made by everyone and is sung in any language you speak only bodes well for the future of Rock and the world in general.
We may be screwed up in some cases, we’re finally getting it together in Music. ’bout time.
