Batre. Cantar per treballar, cantar per resistir

Batre is an encounter between music and words. A duo that, from the interplay between guitar, double bass and voice, explores the emotion of saying and singing. With roots in threshing songs and other forms of oral transmission linked to work and the land, each show connects with the rhythm of the body and the word, transferring this collective memory to a lively and contemporary stage language.

Activity curated by a cobert
With the participation of Ismael Sempere i Rubén Martí

Ismael J. Sempere Mirón (Alfafara, 1995) is a poet and actor from Valencia. A graduate in Catalan Philology and Higher Studies in Dramatic Art (Textual Interpretation), he has developed a career centred on spoken poetry and stage creation. His work is based on collective memory, popular tradition and rurality in order to dialogue with contemporaneity. He was awarded the Valencia Prize for poetry in Valencian in 2024 for Venien i se m’enduien (Edicions Bromera) and has also published Pan de luna (2019) and Sem (2020).

@ismael__joan

Rubén Martí is a jazz double bass player with a solid professional career. He received his musical training at the Conservatori Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo in Valencia. He has participated in more than twenty formations of different musical styles, both in small formats and in big bands, and has recorded four albums as well as several singles throughout his career. His experience has been enriched by several international trips, including a stay in Cuba, where he had the opportunity to learn from prestigious musicians such as Jorge Reyes.

@rubenmartip