Watch Marina Herlop perform 'La Alhambra' live at Le Guess Who?

Curated by Animal Collective Recordings

Catalan artist Marina Herlop performed live at Le Guess Who? 2022 as part of the program curated by Animal Collective. Last year, we released the concert film with tracks from her 2022 album 'Pripyat'. Now that its follow-up is out, 2023's 'Nekkuja', we release the video of 'La Alhambra', one of the tracks from that new album.

"The song evokes a sense of spiritual awakening: Her atmospheric vocals echo like Gregorian chants inside a stone church, punctuated by a thudding drum. Midway, her soaring cries taper into a murmur before she finds her way back to us again. It’s a thrilling track, rooted in the emotional pull of Herlop’s rousing operatic arrangement. You can’t help but want to linger in her enigmatic world" - Pitchfork

Le Guess Who? Recordings
The publication of this recording is part of Le Guess Who?'s ongoing expansion of the festival’s recordings archive with 100+ recordings from past editions now freely available online.

This archive contains audio and/or video recordings of performances by the likes of a.o. Stereolab, Alan Sparhawk, The Microphones, Dry Cleaning, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Selda Bağcan, Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Goat, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Neneh Cherry, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Indian ensemble the Rajasthan Express together with composer Shye Ben Tzur and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.

Captured at TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal on Sunday, 13 November during Le Guess Who? 2022.

Marina Herlop – vocals & keys
Claudia Ibañez Balletbo – vocals
Maria Mauri Fabregas – vocals
Antoni Llull Galmes – drums

Direction: Dammes Kieft
Camera: Anaïs Saebu, Jonathan Sipkema, Nicky Pajkić, Rikash Gobardhan, Yuma Eekman, Dammes Kieft
Production: Claudia Rison, Studio Dammes
Montage & Grade: Jonathan Sipkema & Dammes Kieft
Sound recording: Marc Broer