The mestizo rhythms of Colectivo Panamera have shaken this Thursday morning the campus of the University of Navarra as a preamble to Quiero mucho más, the concert they will offer this Friday 18, from 19.30 hours, in the Museo Universidad de Navarra. Tickets cost 12 and 16 euros, and there are discounts for users of Carnet Joven and PIC Card.

With good vibes and positive energy as a flag, the Zaragozan Nacho Taboada (guitars and vocals) and the Argentines Pepe Curioni (guitars and vocals) and Vanja Polacek (drums and vocals) have presented the live performance that will open the Performing Arts and Music season, in front of students and professionals of the academic center. "Starting this cycle is an honor. With the pandemic we were waiting for the turn of events and, when they called us, we didn't think twice. It is a pleasure to be here," explained Taboada.

For her part, Teresa Lasheras, head of Performing Arts and Music of the Museum, stressed that the Museum begins the season "with great enthusiasm and desire to be back with the public in the Theater, and also prepared to serve the public with all the necessary security measures".

LATIN RHYTHMS AND ROCK

The band arrives for the first time in Pamplona after touring practically the entire Spanish geography, with more than a hundred concerts behind them, before the pandemic. They present their first album, a work in which they renew the Latin rhythms, from cumbia to calypso, through rumba and carnavalito, mixed with the most genuine pop and rock. "We really like Latin American folklore, from Atahualpa Yupanqui to Bomba Estéreo. We try to travel in that sonic. But the important thing is the songs," says Curioni.

The three members had their musical careers when, coinciding in a benefit concert in favor of the Sahrawi people in 2016, they decided to embark on an adventure together. "The idea of Colectivo Panamera was to get together, make pineapple and create a new project. That concert was a very enriching and beautiful experience. We realized that there was something special and the possibility of sharing musical tastes and common ideas," recalls the musician.

Then came Quiero mucho más, their first single, which went viral. "We played every week in Madrid and that's why we were already sharp. When the album arrived, everything went even better", says Polacek. That song has been one of the interpreted in the esplanade of the Faculty of Communication, an appetizer of the concert in which he has transmitted to the audience his desire to have fun and "dance crying". This is how the three musicians, who recognize melancholy as one of the key drivers of their lyrics, defined it with laughter. "We appeal to universal human issues, such as love, the road, life, death, friendship... Composing is an almost daily exercise and, in the end, poetry and songs are based on issues that touch us all. For example, El huracán talks about goodbyes. But there is also a touch of hope in all the songs. We want to transmit positivity", Taboada emphasizes.

Colectivo Panamera is a road band that spends a lot of time traveling and, in those trips, they explain, the music leaves memories and friends, which they then seek to bring to songs that move. At this moment, while they are preparing their second studio album, they will share all those experiences in song, with a melancholic and enthusiastic flavor, at the Teatro del Museo.