The festival opens its second edition with memorable performances by new and established artists such as Jorja Smith or The Flaming Lips, Irenegarry or La Plata and a vibrant atmosphere in Caja Mágica.
KALORAMA Madrid has kicked off its second edition with a proposal that confirms its identity: a careful experience, where diversity of styles, big international names and the local creative pulse converge. Coinciding with the summer solstice, the festival celebrates the arrival of the brightest season of the year with an event designed to let yourself go, reconnect with the music and live the beginning of summer unhurriedly, as a collective ritual under the sky of Madrid.
1. A thoughtful experience to welcome summer
The doors of KALORAMA Madrid have opened to a weekend dedicated entirely to music. The first performances have shaped a day designed to move easily between stages, rest areas and restaurants. Everything was arranged for the experience to flow from the beginning, without overlaps and with time to enjoy each proposal.
2. Subtlety becomes strength in Jorja Smith's live performance.
The British artist offered a sensorial and nuanced concert where every movement on stage seemed measured and deeply honest. Presenting Falling or Flying, she constructed a subjective and elegant sonic universe in which her voice, ethereal and firm in equal parts, floated over carefully crafted arrangements, leaving room for the emotion catalyzed by her art. Her uncontrived staging was as powerful as it was restrained, allowing the harmonic and melodic intensity to burst forth in every note.
3. Father John Misty tinges melancholy with intelligent irony.
Father John Misty unfolded his repertoire with the serenity of someone who controls his own emotional story. The American musician combined a melancholic tone with moments of subtle irony, intelligent humor and generated an immediate complicity with the audience. Each cut, performed without hesitation, brought a new nuance to a setlist that oscillated between the intimate and the grandiloquent.
4. Jazz, soul and electronica live and seamless
The Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD offered one of the most celebrated live performances of the first day. They guided the audience through an instrumental journey where labels were conspicuous by their absence. Their set moved organically between jazz, electronica and soul, offering an enveloping narrative that kept the audience’s attention from the first chord to the last silence. With precise execution and hypnotic energy, they created a space that invited active listening and to let oneself be carried away by the rhythm, without maps or borders.
5. Aesthetic celebration to the beat of electropop.
The day also offered a privileged space for dancing and celebration, with moments where electronic music met the sophistication of live sound. L’Impératrice, turned the stage into a luminous dance floor with elegant funk, retro disco and French electropop with a cinematic aroma. The group connected with the audience from the first song, claiming hedonism as a legitimate – and necessary – form of collective connection.
6. A sensory ritual between epic, tenderness and psychedelia.
One of the highlights of the second day came with The Flaming Lips, who offered a full performance of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, their influential 2002 album. The show was a waste of imagination and sensitivity, with an overflowing staging and a magnetic Wayne Coyne, navigating between visual delirium and emotional connection with the audience. The band turned the stage into a kind of cosmic theater where the infantile and the existential coexisted in perfect harmony. Beyond the concert, it was a multi-sensory experience that appealed to both nostalgia and the capacity for collective amazement, blurring the boundaries between music, performance and visual art.
7. Local talent present from minute one
The day started with a powerful sample of the creative present of the state scene. Bloodstein opened with a live performance without concessions, visceral and magnetic, which caught the attention of those who opened the doors of KALORAMA Madrid. Then Irenegarry transformed the space into an emotional capsule, with an intimate set full of generational references. La Plata reaffirmed their place in the independent circuit with a strong, energetic and self-confident performance. To end the day, the multi-awarded Alizzz in his frontman facet led his show to the club terrain with a solid proposal supported by his personal discography that kept the dance floor moving until the end of the night.
8. Two cities, one heartbeat
While KALORAMA Madrid kicked off its first day, MEO KALORAMA celebrated its second day in Lisbon. Two capitals connected by music. Artists like Azealia Banks, Scissor Sisters or Model/Actriz performed today in the Portuguese capital and will perform tomorrow in Madrid, marking a common story that transcends borders.
So ends a first day of KALORAMA Madrid that tomorrow will give way to its second day with international names like Pet Shop Boys or Azealia Banks or national proposals such as Maria Arnal, PUTOCHINOMARICÓN or El Buen Hijo. Direct that promise emotion, intensity and a new way of inhabiting the music.
KALORAMA Madrid
Caja Mágica Madrid
June 20 and 21
Saturday
17:55 LAURA SAM
19:05 PUTOCHINOMARICÓN
20:45 MARÍA ARNAL
22:30 PET SHOP BOYS
01:30 SCISSOR SISTERS
Stage 2
18:25 EL BUEN HIJO
19:45 MODEL/ACTRIZ
21:30 BOY HARSHER
00:20 AZEALIA BANKS
