Between jazz and hip-hop

A must-see at Jamboree for music fans who like surprises. What can you get out of fusing jazz and hip-hop? The answer, a musical experience in itself, will be at the Plaça Reial venue on Thursday, 18 April (two sessions), at the concert Magro feat. Rapturous.

Magro, an artist who lives and works in Berlin, in one of the scenes most prone to sound experiments, will be the star of the show. He has created a unique sound grid that combines acoustic jazz, hip-hop and produced R'n'B. He is also the author of the album ‘The Great Jazz Legends’. The great legends of jazz, such as Herbie Hancock, J Dilla and Flying Lotus, are the original inspiration for sounds that do not accept labels and that renew and innovate with the utmost freshness.

With the new EP Tokyo Tree having just appeared, you will surely hear him interpreting some songs that, like the one that gives the album its title, symbolises a renewal, something very typical of the spring we are living in, and offers a sample of his vibrant and personal style. Magro has performed on stages and at international festivals such as Jazzahead, Tremplin Jazz Avignon, WIM Festival Zambia, Belgrad Jazz Festival and Sharpe Festival, among others.

In Barcelona, he is accompanied among the members of his live band by the rapper, also from Berlin, Rapturous Apollo Helios (RAH). He adds new sounds and influences to Magro's music, which is already made up of many other musical languages. The rapper from Lagos (Nigeria) has lived his whole life surrounded by hip-hop, soul and afrobeat, and is the host of a well-known weekly jam session in the German capital.

If you want to feel Rapturous' voice and the music of Magro and his band and join them in a new way that is neither jazz nor hip-hop, but both at the same time, come to Jamboree, but first check the website for information about the performances.