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“L’aigua no cansa”, de Maria del Mar Bonet, és un disc profundament mallorquí i mediterrani, concebut, creat i produït íntegrament a Mallorca. L’àlbum representa una nova fita en la seva trajectòria artística, amb un retorn a les arrels des d’una mirada actual en la seva manera de
treballar i crear.
La poesia, sempre central en la seva obra, hi té un paper essencial. El disc reuneix nou cançons que dialoguen amb textos propis, poemes d’altres autors i la tradició popular, una font constant d’inspiració que dona sentit al títol del disc: “L’aigua no cansa”. El repertori incorpora també composicions de Toni Cuenca i d’Antoni Parera Fons —que posa música a un poema de Blai Bonet—, així com una peça de Mauro Pagani sobre un fragment del poeta grec Alcman
d’Esparta del s.VII aC. El disc es tanca amb la delicada Lluna de pau, amb música del pianista cubà José María Vitier, en un final especialment evocador.
L’edició del disc ha estat especialment cuidada i incorpora fotografies del fotògraf, cineasta i director de fotografia mallorquí Pep Bonet, procedents de la seva sèrie de retrats per al llibre Paradís (Disset, 2025). Les imatges, realitzades amb pel·lícula instantània tractada químicament per obtenir un negatiu de mig format, presenten textures i alteracions úniques. A partir d’aquestes fotografies s’ha creat una edició premium limitada en format llibre-disc en acordeó desplegable i un vinil format de tres pales amb estaming d’or dissenyat per Anita Sancho.
La direcció artística del projecte ha anat a càrrec de la mateixa Maria del Mar Bonet, que també signa la producció del disc juntament amb el músic i productor Toni Pastor, ambdós responsables també dels arranjaments. Hi participen els músics Toni Pastor (llaüt), Marc Grasas (guitarra i dobro), Marko Lohikari (contrabaix), Benjamí Salom (violí), José Llorach (percussió), Llorenç Barceló (teclats) i Tomàs Salom (castanyetes), amb la col·laboració especial del
pianista José María Vitier en el tema que tanca el disc.
El disc ha estat gravat, mesclat i masteritzat per l’enginyer de so Mateu Picornell, que ha treballat estretament amb Maria del Mar Bonet, i ha contribuït també amb aportacions artístiques essencials al projecte. L’enregistrament ha comptat amb l’assistència de Pere Estelrich als Estudis Swing.
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Repertori del disc:
1. Blaus i blaus
Lletra: Maria del Mar Bonet; Música: Toni Cuenca; Arranjaments: Toni Pastor.
2. S’aigo no
Lletra i música: Maria del Mar Bonet, Popular mallorquina. Arranjaments: Maria del Mar Bonet
i Toni Pastor.
3. Sa ximbomba
Lletra i música: Popular mallorquina. Arranjaments i adaptació: Maria del Mar Bonet.
4. Nit
Fragments de versos d’Alcmane de Sardes, s. VII aC, poeta grec d’Esparta amb la música i
adaptació de Mauro Pagani.
5. L’arbre campaner
Lletra: Maria del Mar Bonet. Música: Toni Cuenca. Arranjaments: Toni Pastor.
6. Cançó dels disbarats
Lletra: Maria del Mar Bonet. Música: Toni Pastor i Maria del Mar Bonet. Arranjaments: Toni
Pastor.
7. Blaus i sol de roses blanques
Del llibre Quatre poemes de Setmana Santa de Blai Bonet, fragment del poema “Final de la missa
de presantificats” .
Música: Antoni Parera Fons. Arranjaments: Toni Pastor.
8. L’aigua no cansa
Lletra i música: Maria del Mar Bonet. Dedicada a la memòria i a l’exemple del Pare Rafel Ginard.
9. Lluna de pau
Lletra: Maria del Mar Bonet. Música: José María Vitier.

CRÈDITS

Direcció artística i musical: Maria del Mar Bonet
Producció artística i arranjaments: Maria del Mar Bonet i Toni Pastor
Enginyer de so i mescles: Mateu Picornell
Ajudant d’enginyer de so: Pere Estelrich
Fotografies: Pep Bonet
Edició fotografies: Joan Roig
Disseny gràfic: Anita Sancho
Correcció, traducció al castellà i coordinació de textos: Teresa Roig
Traduccions a l’anglès: Steve Cedar
Managament: Yanni Munujos i Laura Magrinyà per Comunicamanagers; Pere Nus per Goiats

MÚSICS

Maria del Mar Bonet: veu
Toni Pastor: llaüt
Marc Grasas: guitarra i dobro
Marko Lohikari: contrabaix
Benjamí Salom: violí
José Llorach: percussió
Llorenç Barceló: teclats
Tomàs Salom: castanyetes
José María Vitier: piano a Lluna de Pau

Enregistrat els mesos de gener i febrer del 2026 a Estudis Swing de Palma

Ultramar is the result of the artistic communion between some of the best musicians and composers from different ambits of the contemporary music scene, and one of the most important voices of the Mediterranean and of the traditional canço in the world. The recording studio, as the hours went by, became a workshop of songs where intuition quickly became artisanship. Being the executive producer means signing up for the dream of a creator and attempting to make it possible. We were in Cuba making Ultramar, like when we were in Syria making Amic, Amat, or in Mallorca making Raixa. But accompanying Maria del Mar in this step beyond, approaching another sea, preparing in the form of an album the celebration of 50 years’ performing, free from revisions and nostalgias on the other side of the world, has been a unique experience. Difficult to repeat.

Those of us who have worked in the background have attended a recital of never-ending affections and great artistic harmonies. After so many journeys these recent years working in Cuba with so many other projects, with Ultramar I have had the pleasure of witnessing how Maria del Mar moved around and lived in Havana as if she was doing so around the streets of Palma. I remember that when we finished recording, after weeks working and living in Cuba, one day she approached me and said: – I have to tell you something Yanni. Every day I like Havana more.

Yanni Munujos

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In 1981 the second LP was reissued with the song «L’Àguila negra» added. This album would be very well received by her public.

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El 1975 apareix el seu quart senzill amb les cançons Drama, de Caetano Veloso, i Dintre teu amb autoria de Maria del Mar Bonet dedicada a Maria Bethania.

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For the exhibition about the poet Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel, Imitació del foc, which opened in the Student Residence in Barcelona in May 2012, where Maria del Mar Bonet was invited to sing, the idea arose of making an album exclusively with songs of Rosselló-Pòrcel. The centenary of the poet’s birth was nearing so the record made even more sense taking into account the importance of the Mallorca poet in the career of Maria del Mar Bonet from its beginnings. Thus they compiled all the songs about poems by maintaining the original recording and adding three new ones: Quan acabarà aquell moment, Poques paraules surten and Pluja en el jardí de l’Ateneu.

The presentation of the album was in the Auditori Barrades in L’Hospitalet del Llobregat on the 7^th of October 2013. The tour of the album reached Olot, Barcelona, Navarcles, Palma, Madrid, Valencia, Camallera, Torrent, Reus and Lleida among other cities.

In May 2013 she took part in the homage to Salvador Espriu, singing songs by Rosselló-Pòrcel, a close friend of the poet from Arenys, which was in the Avinguda de la Catedral in Barcelona. In June she performed in the Concert per la Llibertat singing Què volen aquesta gent? accompanied by the Companyia Elèctrica Dharma. In July she took part in Palma in the concert in favour of the Orquestra Simfònica Balear “Ciutat de Palma” which at the time was at risk of disappearing, before more than 5,000 people. On the 2^nd of August she sang in the Culturals Nights in the Sanctuary of Gràcia, in Mallorca.

In 2014 she still did concerts of Fira encesa and began the Spanish tour with Amancio Prada of the joint show Por amar el arte. For the centenary of the birth of Joan Vinyoli they prepared La veu del mar with Dani Espasa that they took around Catalonia. She began working with the Valencia guitarist Borja Penalba.

On the 19^th of February 2015 Maria del Mar Bonet was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Balearic Isles.

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From that month of February 1988 in which she did the series of concerts in the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona that led to the record Ben a prop issued in 1989, Maria del Mar Bonet and Manel Camp have performed many concerts together. It was from 2007 when these joint concerts increased in number, to commemorate that album was about to complete twenty years. In 2007 they visited the Canaries, Sant Pedor and Dènia. In 2008 they went to Malaga, on the 6^th of February in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Lloseta, La Granadella in Lleida, Son Cervera in Mallorca, Tenerife, the Ateneu Barcelonés, Aranjuez. In 2009 they performed in Solsona, Marbella, and in the Festes de Gràcia in Barcelona; in 2010 Madrid and Granada among other places. Moreover, it was not until 2011 que that the album was recorded with the title Blaus de l’ànima, més de 20 anys ben a prop.

It is a double-CD which contains all the songs from the album Ben a prop and some others from earlier records such as Què volen aquesta gent?, Mercè, Mai donis per finit, Cançó de l’amor petit, Blues en sol, La Balanguera or L‘Àliga negra, and the song La barbera which had never been recorded before.

Maria del Mar Bonet explained her way of working together:  Manel has his path, with his musicians, and a tremendous amount of work as a pedagogue. I have also gone along my own path, with my group and with collaborations with people from North Africa and all the Mediterranean. But always, every year, we have performed just the two of us. Initially we had one or other musician, but later we wanted to reduce the number performing: the time comes when you like the piano and voice more. It is network-free, but that way we are freer to do what we want “. Regarding the improvisation on stage she states: Sometimes one of us follows the other. He on the piano says to me: Now I’m going to do this, let’s see what you do. We never sing the same. Never! Never, never, never! To reach this point you have to know someone as much as we know each other”.

The presentation of the album was in the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona at a press conference on the 11^th of September 2011. The tour for the album began in the Sala Clamores in Madrid and reached Barcelona from the 27^th of September to the 2^nd of October in the Teatre Lliure in Gràcia. The tour of Blaus de l’ànima around the Spanish State and Catalonia comprised more than 50 concerts throughout the year. In 2012 they did a series of double-sessions in the Sala Jamboree in Barcelona from the 2^nd to the 7^th of October.

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In July 2006 she presented the record Terra secreta in the Plaça del Rei in Barcelona. A few days before she had been awarded the Gold Medal of the City of Barcelona.

This album is a compilation of little-known songs by friends such as Joan Manuel Serrat of whom she chose Cançó d’amor petit and La rosa de l’adéu; by Guillem d’Efak she picked Blues en sol and Tant com te cerc; by Joan Bibiloni, Mai donis per finit sobre a poem by Miquel Àngel Riera and Epitalami about a poem by Father Alcover; by Ovidi Montllor, Dos anònims; Un exèrcit by Jordi Guardans; Salònica by Gabriel Sopeña; and La dansa de l’amor, by Toti Soler from a poem by King Dionis I of Portugal. She added an adaptation in Catalan of a song by the Greek singer Haris Alexiou, Per una cançó. Javier Mas and Jei Ansill put music to the poem “The Secret Land”, by Robert Graves that began and gave the title to the record, which his daughter, Lucia Graves, translated into Catalan.

In the presentation of the record Lucia Graves wrote:

In the poem “The Secret Land”, written in 1960, Robert Graves speaks to us of an imaginary and secret place to which the woman travels from this “pale external world”; a realm that she governs with her intuitive and magic powers.

When Maria del Mar sings this poem it opens the door to us to her own “secret country, her secret land, personalising the images and mythological symbols of Graves with a sensitive and powerful voice. This same voice transports us from the universal and mythological to the private, that is, to the Mallorca land from where she comes and which for half a century was the home of the British poet. Graves chose to live in a village of the Serra de Tramuntana, attracted by the presence of rugged and beautiful nature. As we all know, , Maria del Mar Bonet has also been inspired and is still inspired by her Mallorca roots, identifying with her island, opening up to the rest of the Mediterranean and the whole world through it.

With her interpretation of “The Secret Land” the Mallorca singer pays homage to a Mallorcan by adoption, to a neighbourhood. Moreover, through the poem, she invites us to discover a hidden and feminine spot, the “Secret land” within which she guards as a treasure the poems that form this compilation.

In the words of Maria del Mar Bonet “they are songs that I have had alongside me for a long time. I have enjoyed bringing them together on this album, in which there is a certain unity for the air of intimacy that they give off“.

The tour of Terra Secreta began in 2006, even though the record came out in September 2007, and would last until 2010, combining it with three shows that she had in progress in those years.

In 2007, with Terra Secreta in different places in Catalonia ( Palafrugell, Badalona, Sabadell, Prada, Igualada, Lleida), and in the Spanish State (Castelló, Oviedo, Jaen, Palma, Elche, Campello),  she toured with Manel Camp, celebrated his 40 years with the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallés in the Palau de la Música in the Festival Únicas, in what would be the embryo of the next album Bellver; she continued the Amic, amat  tour (Festival WOMAD in Càceres, Guadalajara, Lugo, Viladecans) and presented the show Els treballs i els dies with Miguel Poveda in the Festival Grec in Barcelona, the Metropolitan in New York and in Frankfurt.

2008, 2009 and 2010 could be described similarly to the previous ones: she had several shows in progress, with Manel Camp, Miguel Poveda, symphonic orchestras and Amic, Amat still. With Terra Secreta she visited many cities in the Spanish State (Gijon, Valladolid, Jerez, Zaragoza, Picassent and Canet d’en Berenguer in Valencia, Palma, Manacor, Pontevedra, Vigo, Madrid) and in Catalonia (Alella, Santa Perpetua, La Granadella, Terrassa, Auditorium of de Barcelona, Porreres, Banyoles, Cadaqués, Lleida, Sant Cugat, Granollers). On the 17^th of July 2009 she took part in the concert “Visions de la mediterrània” in the Festival Portaferrada in Sant Feliu de Guíxols along with Savina Yannatou, Gino Paoli, Franca Masu, Noa and Joan Manuel Serrat.

On the 17th  of January 2009 began with the opening ceremony of the of the Festes de Sant Sebastià in Palma by Maria del Mar Bonet who paid homage to the city of her childhood. On the 28^th of October she was given the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Lleida.

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On the 26^th of May 2007 Maria del Mar Bonet celebrated her 40 years of professional career accompanied by the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès directed by Xavier Puig in the Palau de la Música Catalana within the setting of the Festival Únicas. The arrangements were by Joan Bibiloni and Toni Cuenca who would have the task of “dressing up” these songs, in the words of Maria del Mar Bonet.

The next month, on the 16^th and 17^th of June the concert would be repeated in the Palau de la Música within the regular programme of the OSV. On the 20^th of June 2008 she would repeat the symphonic experience with the Grant Park Orchestra of Chicago, directed by Carlos Kalmar, the concert being held in the Auditorium of the Millennium Park in Chicago in the open air, before 12,000 people.

On the 24^th of July 2008 it was the turn of the Orquestra Simfònica de Balears “Ciutat de Palma”, directed by Phillipe Bender, in the Castle of Bellver in Palma. After this concert the idea emerged of making a record that as a title carried the name of the castle, Bellver, of which she had many childhood memories and from the early days as a singer.

The album was recorded with the O.S.B. “Ciutat de Palma” under the direction of Salvador Brotons in the Maller studios and in Ona Digital in Palma in January 2010. The musicians who collaborated on “the finishing touches of the arrangements” were Dani Espasa, Toni Cruz, Antonio Sánchez, Dimitri Psonis, Lautaro Rosas, Moisès Pelegrí and Cristóbal Rentero, regular collaborators of Maria del Mar Bonet. The album was presented on the 19^th of March 2010 in the Castle of Bellver, and on the 26^th of the same month a tour began around the Valencia region: Gandia, Catarroja and Valencia; on the 6^th of April in Palau de la Música Catalana with the Orquesta Simfònica Balear; on the 24^th of April in Torrent, with the Orquestra Simfònica de Torrent; the 19^th of June in Tunis, in the official concert of the closure of the Spanish presidency of the EU and on the 21^st of July she performed in Jerusalem.

In 2011 Bellver won the Internacional Cubadisco 2011 Prize in Havana, where she collected it in person and made contact with the Cuban musicians, the Jorge Reyes Sextet, in a concert they gave in the Teatro Lázaro in Havana and where Omara Portuondo was a special guest. This experience with the Cuban musicians opened up new paths for her, the results of which would be seen later.

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