Roots do not have to mean stillness. They can also mean movement, risk, pulse, future. Sometimes, looking back is not about remaining in the past, but about listening again to something that has long been sounding beneath the surface and discovering that it can still say unexpected things.

That is the intuition behind SEDAÇ, the new project by the Martorell brothers: a bold, original proposal, deeply connected to roots music, yet far removed from any easy nostalgia. Their approach does not turn tradition into a museum piece; it treats it as living matter — porous, breathing, open to the present.

With El batec de l’Illa, SEDAÇ offers an intense and renewing take on the island’s sonic imagination. At the heart of the project are the brothers Manel Martorell —llaüt, mandola and archlute— and Pere Joan Martorell —xeremies, flabiol, tamborino and flutes—, joined by Joan Florit, Bessó —flutes, xeremies and flabiol—, Miquel Jaume on electric bass, Miquel Femenies on drums and Sebastià Llinares on keyboards. It is a line-up that already expresses, through its very instruments, the spirit of the project: popular memory, contemporary pulse and roots that dare to transform themselves.

There is memory, yes, but also an inner electricity. There are popular echoes, but crossed with a contemporary sensibility. There are instruments, rhythms and forms that seem to come from long ago, yet here they unfold with a new, free and restless energy, able to enter into dialogue with other languages without losing the thread of what is essential.

The result is music that does not ask permission to mix different times: the ancestral and the contemporary, the collective and the intimate, the rural and the urban, the inherited and the imagined. Music that understands tradition not as a closed place, but as an open question. What do we do today with what we have received? How do we listen to it? How do we return it to the world transformed, without betraying it and without letting it fall asleep?

Live, SEDAÇ arrives with the force of a project that knows where it comes from, but looks clearly ahead. El batec de l’Illa does not sound like re-enactment, but like pulse: an island breathing, remembering, changing, recognising itself in its roots and, precisely because of that, daring to move.

One of those proposals that fit naturally within SONSDENIT: music with identity, with purpose, with risk, and with the ability to show that tradition, when it is alive, is never old.

📍The concert will take place at the Claustre de Sant Bonaventura, in Llucmajor, one of the town’s most beautiful and recognisable heritage spaces. The architecture of the cloister, its serenity and its human scale create a particularly fitting setting for music that enters into dialogue with memory, stone and time.

At SONSDENIT, venues are never just a backdrop. At Sant Bonaventura, SEDAÇ’s music will find a place especially close to its spirit: a cloister where roots can resonate without becoming the past, where tradition can breathe in the present, and where each note seems to ask again where we come from and how we want to sound from here.