Sanfeliu 'To Absent Friends' Album Launch @ The Cave Inn

Set times
1800 - doors
1820 - Unregistered Master Builder & Lindsay Crawford
1915 - Doggie Heaven
2010 - Flightless Birds Take Wing
2115 - Sanfeliu

Listen to To Absent Friends here.

Electro-acoustic troubadour Sanfeliu brings their immersive live performance to The Cave Inn on December 9th to celebrate the release of their sophomore album To Absent Friends.

Sharing the stage and space with friends Doggie Heaven, Flightless Birds Take Wing and Unregistered Master Builder with Lindsay Crawford, the evening is guaranteed to delight, inspire, connect and surprise.

The album is a collection of songs and sound-collages about the people that make us who we are: friendships, relationships based on the free sharing and exchanging of care, nurture, pleasure and knowledge in different times and places. 

Like each friend, each song presents different patterns, and a different relationship or exchange model: some friends you see every week, some every summer, some sporadically, some regularly, but they all share a focus on self-reflection, awareness, cooperation, collection creative pursuits, shared passions that bring you together. 

Similarly to friendships, these songs show an interest in change, growth, transience, willingness to embrace change and to grow. Some pieces have a clear pop-song structure with verse, bridge and chorus. Others have a ballad structure, and rely on the repetition and contrast between vocal and instrumental parts. Some are entirely built on repetition, whereas others explore development and change, with slowly shifting harmonic sequences. 

“In most of the pieces,” says Sanfeliu, “working with very minimal rhythmic and melodic motifs and presenting these across both piano and subtle synth layers helped me integrate the writing into something that allowed for more complex arrangements, whilst feeling still natural, seamless, organic.”