Electronic Devices will be the seventh solo LP by Joan Miquel Oliver, who invites the audience on a pop journey that explores the two extremes of the genre and a long spectrum of half-measures. The album includes tracks from the experimental 50 euros, which is a song built on a Whatsapp audio that his friend Javier Dalmau sent him to explain how he had found a ticket on the street and which, at the same time, recalls the dodecaphonic instrumental work that Oliver published in the middle of the pandemic; to the eighties track Barra libre, which dives headlong into the most typical pop song of drum machines and simple sentiments.

Antonia Font’s guitarist and composer will present this 10-song album on 6 October, which covers an electric and varied range, solid and coherent, with the determination to take the pop genre, i.e. modern popular music, to the highest aesthetic spheres.

About Joan Miquel Oliver:

The musician and writer born in Sóller in 1974 is the composer, lyricist and guitarist of the band Antònia Font. In parallel, he has made a solo career and has been on stage for more than 15 years with albums such as Surfistas en cámara lenta (Azul, 2005), Live in Paris (2006), Hansel y Gretel (2007), Bombón Mallorquín (2008), Un kilo de invisible (2013), Pegasus (2015), AtlanHs (2017) and Elektra (2018), Aventuras de la nota La (2020), the last four with illustrations by Albert Pinya.

As a composer and music producer, he has worked with artists such as Jaume Sisa and Albert Pla, and has collaborated on projects for television and film. Oliver holds a degree in philosophy from the UIB and has published the poetry collection Odissea treinta mil (Leonard Muntaner, 2002), of which he has made a version set to music with the group Droguería Esperanza; the novel El misterio del amor (Empúries, 2008); the facsimile edition of personal documents Quadern 2008 (Empúries, 2009); the play Un kilo de invisible (Empúries, 2013); the novel biography of the Mallorcan climber Miquel Riera Septiembre, octubre y noviembre (La Otra Editorial, 2014), and the novel Alexandra Schneider und ihr Casiotone (La Otra Editorial, 2018).