Trèvol, the group formed by Laia Glück, Léonie Martet, Bernat Garcés and Martí Fleta, has just released their new album, Folk d’Extraradi (Segell Microscopi), a work that focuses on the city's margins and its multiple identities.
According to the group, the album is born from a specific place: “From where the city frays: among vacant lots, industrial estates, apartment blocks and half-paved streets. In the neighborhoods where languages, accents, traditions and diverse memories coexist. Where every satellite dish points to another place in the world, but also to a unique way of inhabiting the present.”
The periphery, creative and emotional center
Folk d’Extraradi claims the margins as spaces of mixture, cultural resistance and new traditions. It is a work that draws from the popular music of the Catalan Countries, but constantly dialogues with the sounds and cultures that coexist in the neighborhoods of the contemporary outskirts. It is, therefore, a work that starts from this hybrid reality without losing the link with tradition or the will to reinterpret it. In recent weeks, the band has made two advances: one was Pasdoble dels turistes which, with a festive spirit and a sharp gaze, addresses gentrification, overcrowding, speculation and the progressive loss of Barcelona's identity due to excessive tourism, and the other Lo Pardal, a piece that starts from a traditional song from Northern Catalonia, and fuses it with the Kurdish melody Tolhildan, incorporating influences of rhythmic patterns typical of Arabic music.
Trèvol thus consolidates a unique and singular sound, capable of making tradition travel to new territories. On the new album there is everything from a waltz-jota dedicated to the periphery to burned gardens still full of hope. Also appearing is the cry of Mar, Cel i Guerra, which speaks of those seeking a better future far from home, as well as the rage against social injustices and speculation, topics of burning current relevance.
Furthermore, the songs also incorporate echoes of music from neighboring cultures and tributes to the references that have preceded the group. A mixture that they say is not only aesthetic but a way of looking at the world and sharing with them path, memory and future, also with the people they love most.
From the mixture of the margins
Trèvol was born in April 2023 and debuted on stage within the framework of the Graller Day of Vilafranca del Penedès. In a few months, the group positioned itself as one of the most singular proposals of the Catalan folk scene by being proclaimed winner of the Sons de la Mediterrània contest. This recognition prompted them to record their first record work, Qui omple un estadi no és pas un graller, which was a finalist for best folk album by popular vote at the Premis Enderrock 2025.
With their sights set on live performance, the group opts for a more festive and at the same time protest-oriented show, faithful to its essence.
