Hosted by 80 Mundos bookstores in Alicante this Friday at 19:00. A jam session of the Beatmeeting Cru collective emerged as an independent and self-managed musical group in the city in 2022. beaters(manufacturers my horse or rhythm mixes) in a circle that starts by meeting with portable audio equipment in parks. free style.
Different manufacturers are committed to showing off. my horse, abilities their voices and voices to share their techniques and passion. instrumental hip hoplo-fi, samplers, vinyl and everything used realize these rhythms organically, without the mediation of computers.
Beatmeeting Cru encourages reaching children and youth by targeting family-friendly venues and programs. The project they plan to realize at 80 Mundos bookstore is the same: transforming the bookstore into a space where books are not the only protagonists and that music is a way to reach them or simply enjoy them (as is already the case with the plastic arts in the courses it hosts).
This group has already been an active part of major events with large stages and workshops, such as the Alacant Desperta, Rocanrola and Urban Tactics festivals, but has not given up on the street jams in Alicante and other parts of the Valencian Community. is open to showing its format in other cultural venues.
“Ghost Dog” by José Daniel Espejo
The bookstore will also buy Saturday at 12 noonto the writer, activist, journalist and bookseller José Daniel Espejowho will present his new poetry collection, ghost dogpublisher’s innovation Canada in a conversation included in the poetry collection Reme Perni.
ghost dog this is a round trips to the gray areas of social exclusion As the editorial points out, in the context of late capitalism, “a polyphony of lost voices and characters subjected to a contemporary exile within itself, where it is almost impossible to do nothing.”
This book, with the author’s foreword Begoña MendezYou can read it as -according to the summary- a unique poem or as a broken song About the collapse of identity, where a drug-addicted rhapsody, the lame man with a notebook, serve as a vehicle from the ghostly Cabo de Gata, where drugs and despair merge with the desert in a mental landscape in disintegration.
“Inside ghost dog There are three interconnected sounds; a copy of the same man who is no longer afraid of anything, who is obscene and doesn’t care, who is beautiful and doesn’t care, who is just and vengeful like a god or a devil. This is the book of someone who returns from the desert transformed into a wise man or a reckless madman,” says Begoña Méndez.
Southern landscapes: Murcia, Cabo de Gata, Mar Menor, These are the scenarios from which the poems of this book are released. José Daniel Espejo confronts tourism, marginalized neighborhoods, worn-out and abandoned places with a beauty that tries to emerge from chaos and pollution, a beauty that remains outside the rules of the market, a beauty rescued from the ruins.
José Daniel Espejo He holds a degree in Spanish Philology and Social Work from the University of Murcia and is the author of: seven books of poetry, narrative and history: The pleasures of meteorology (2000); Burning fools in the squares (2001); music for elevators (2007); Psycho Killer Qu’est Que C’est (2014); evil (2014); talk to jellyfish (2015); ID (2016) and lakes of north america (2019. Juan Rejano-Puente Genil International Prize 2019, Murcian Book of the Year Award 2020). His poems have been collected in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been awarded many international awards.