James Blake will perform in L’Auditori’s Sala 1 Pau Casals on 27 April during the Sit Back season. ‎Co-produced by L’Auditori and Primavera Sound, the concert will mark the first time this ‎British artist has visited L’Auditori.‎

‎*Tickets are already on sale on L’Auditori’s website.‎

Sit Back starts on 15 October with the presentation of the new work by Francesco Tristano ‎entitled “Tokyo Stories”. The second concert will be on 20 November with the acclaimed ‎singer and guitarist Robert Forster, who brings us his seventh album, “Inferno”. Pau Vallvé ‎will be at L’Auditori on 13 December with his album “Life vest under your seat”. And 14 ‎February sees María José Llergo presenting her hot-off-the-press EP, eager to show us that ‎tradition and modernity, by nature, go hand in hand.‎

‎About James Blake‎
There is this misconception that we know the Londoner inside out as he has based his entire ‎career on exposing his feelings in his songs; but it’s not easy to know exactly what we’re ‎talking about when we talk about James Blake. Some would say that he is that atypical pop ‎star that seemingly effortlessly sings a duet in Spanish with Rosalía; others maintain that he is ‎the distraught crooner who allies himself with Justin Vernon in a competition to see who has ‎the most arresting falsetto. Is he imagining the future, revisiting the past or connecting both? ‎At this point, the colour of his music, if it has any at all, remains quite unclear. There are also ‎doubts as to whether he is an urban or a bedroom beats producer. Indeed, is he a producer, ‎a pianist or a singer? Perhaps he is, in fact, a rapper, despite not looking like one: there must ‎be some reason why he has collaborated with Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Vince Staples, Travis ‎Scott and André 3000. So then, once again… what and who is James Blake? Where’s the catch?‎

The catch, if any, is something he has been perfecting in record time. He has managed to ‎create not one, unique James Blake: he has gone way beyond his own limits. Yesterday he ‎was just another piece in the post-dubstep jigsaw puzzle that he formed with a few of his ‎colleagues such as Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison, but today he can say that he was hired by ‎Beyoncé for her iconic “Lemonade”. An entire lifetime condensed into ten years of growth in ‎parallel to Primavera Sound. 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019: he has already notched up four visits ‎to the festival. And four is also the number of works he has released so far. His most recent, ‎‎“Assume Form”, came out last January, completing a series of albums that may not have ‎succeeded in enlightening us any further on who the real James Blake is, but have certainly ‎served to define the sound of this decade that is drawing to a close, in which he has not ‎made one wrong move.‎