A night of the now, electric roots and the future in sight

Some nights work almost like a small festival within the festival. Not because they simply gather names together, but because they trace a journey. A way of listening to the present from different angles: what is just beginning, what breaks through, what transforms, what keeps opening worlds of its own.

On 17 July, SONSDENIT comes to the gardens of Torre dels Enagistes with a particularly alive, eclectic and open event: four performances, four different energies, and one shared intuition underneath it all: Mallorca does not only have musical memory; it also has a future. And that future sounds in many different ways.

The night will culminate with Joan Miquel Oliver, an artist deeply loved by SONSDENIT and by our audience, who returns to the festival this year at a particularly exciting moment, with a new album and in trio format with Xarli Oliver on drums and Fran Sobrino on bass. Oliver has built a country of his own, made of guitars, dry humour, domestic strangeness, luminous phrases and a way of looking at the world that is as precise as it is disobedient. His songs seem simple until they open from within and reveal the secret machinery they carry. To welcome him back to SONSDENIT, especially at such a fertile moment, is a real joy.

Before him comes Zulu Zulu, a very special guest for the night and one of the most singular projects to have emerged from the Mallorcan scene in recent years. Their music blends psychedelia, hypnotic rhythms, tribal spirit, pop melodies and a stage energy that turns each concert into something physical, danceable and enveloping. In a year of new music for Zulu Zulu, their presence in Manacor adds another layer to the night: that of an artist that has invented a language of its own — recognisable, free and contagious.

And to open the evening, SONSDENIT will activate one of the most exciting parts of this event: SONSDEFUTUR, our space for looking towards young island projects that are already beginning to claim their place with a voice of their own, artists you want to arrive at early, before everyone else realises where they should have been looking.

There will be U.R.Bad, a very young Mallorcan band and recent winners of Pop Rock Palma 2025. Three girls and one guy who, despite their still short trajectory, have already drawn attention for their freshness, force and a way of looking back to rock and alternative music from previous decades without turning them into nostalgia. They are not dressing up as the past; they are bringing that electricity into the present and pushing it forward.

Also opening the night will be Ilion, a project still at the very beginning of its path, almost at that beautiful moment when songs are just starting to take shape and a band begins to discover who it is. We know little about them, and that too is part of the charm: they have grown up with music close by, they are recording their first demos, and what we have heard makes us think there is a seed here worth caring for.

Ilion and U.R.Bad will offer shorter, concentrated sets, like small flashes: intense bursts to open the night, leave a mark and make us want more. Then Zulu Zulu will widen the collective pulse, and Joan Miquel Oliver will close the evening from that universe of his where the everyday becomes strange, bright and unmistakably his own.

It will be a night to jump, to listen, to discover, to be surprised. An eclectic event, yes, but one with a clear sense of purpose: a small cartography of music made from Mallorca, between present and future, between projects being born and artists who continue to prove that creative freedom has no age.

The concert will take place in the gardens of Torre dels Enagistes, currently home to the Museu d’Història de Manacor. A space of very special beauty: the stage will be framed by the stone walls of the historic building and by two large trees in the gardens, as if architecture and nature had agreed to create the best possible backdrop.

There is something powerful in that image: young music, free music, living music, sounding in front of a building filled with history, with greenery surrounding the scene. At SONSDENIT, places are never just scenery; here, even less so.

The spacious gardens will allow the event to unfold almost like a small summer festival, with a bar, food truck, and time to arrive, meet, move, sit, talk and experience the music in different ways. A night to inhabit Torre dels Enagistes differently: as a litup, shared space, full of present energy, with the future sounding in the background.