The first phase of murgas, the first meeting of the group after the break due to the pandemic, became a night in which renowned street musicians such as Zeta Zetas -winners of the 2020 edition- and Mamelucos, showed that COVID-19 has played a trick on them. However, unexpectedly, Trapaseros surprised and became the best murga of the evening.
After With After (1995)
From the Murgas de la Salud Market, the murga directed by Melca Barrera began its performance paying tribute to what we have experienced with COVID-19, which gave way to its parade, which is already a Carnival anthem and that the Venue danced with them.
In their theme they characterized themselves as cleaners and took advantage of the character and common thread that the cleaners are always attentive to what happens in the places where they clean to criticize Evelyn Alonso “Change your jacket that is outrageous”, the carnival of summer, the emigration of the canaries and what happened in the pandemic with nursing homes and ERTEs. Some points of humor sweetened the song, such as when cleaning in Jordi Hurtado’s house “the Wills were found”. They end with an emotional thanks to the work of the cleaners in times of pandemic that made the public applaud.
Constant in terms of voices although with some lack of diction, they solved a performance that allowed them to save the difficult position of breaking the ice and be the first to act after a year of hiatus. With well-spun lyrics they showed that coming back doing a good job is possible.
Zeta Zetas (2003)
The winners of the year 2020 returned to the Carnival to the rhythm of folk music in a presentation with which they surprised the public, later hooking it with their own version of “Color Esperanza”.
Their fantasy “the gods of creation” served as a common thread for their theme “creating the world again”, which began with countersongs and impeccable voices and in which, taking advantage of the fact that they are characterized as gods, they design their own custom-made world. . In the topic they take the opportunity to criticize the rise in rental prices, electricity or gasoline to continue with the creation of the human body, which they create from “the hands of the seamstress” or the “voice of the vigilante ”, paying homage to the carnival itself. After this they remove the fantasy of gods and return to 2020 dressed in their costume from that year to talk about how things have changed with the pandemic and criticize that “what was the use of what we experienced, if we are worse today”, to end up raising the public with a reminder to Ana and Olivia.
Although in their presentation they were captivating and had good voices and diction, the performance was more or less. The best, their stanza remembering Ana and Olivia and the strokes of irony that they introduced taking advantage of the changes since 2020. They signed a good performance, although perhaps not what the public of the sovereign murga expected.
Mamluks (1980)
With Airam Bazzocchi debuting as director, they begin with a less spectacular entrance than in previous editions, marked by somewhat off-key voices.
With the theme they grow in terms of sound, although the strength of Mamelucos still does not appear. In “From everything you learn” as their song is titled, they take the opportunity to make known to the public everything they have learned during the pandemic, a common thread that they use to criticize sexual abusers or to sing to Alfonso Cabello, councilor of Fiestas “Let’s see when the fuck you get out of our carnivals.” They also use the saying “wash their hands” to criticize the murgas for lack of content in their themes, the church, the state government and even the king. They end up applauding the solidarity with La Palma and Diablos Locos for their Little School of Carnival that they took to schools.
Despite the fact that they managed to connect with the public on several occasions due to their good criticism, the voices and the force they were used to did not accompany them on this occasion. With lyrics that are quite loaded with content and well argued, the weight of the slight musical deterioration, especially in its entrance, went somewhat unnoticed.
Trappers (1991)
They begin their presentation demonstrating their musical improvement with the return of Julio Alexis Fernández to the musical direction, displaying the unbeatable voices that only they know how to achieve to get the entire venue up with their parade: “This is the Murga de los Trapaseros” .
In their theme “El Testament”, they open their own notary’s office to distribute inheritances, a common thread that they use to mess with Casimiro Curbelo and the “inheritance that he left to his daughter”, to remember the triumph of Los Gambusinos -murga majorera- in the Las Palmas Murgas Contest or to harshly criticize the controversial statements against the LGTBI collective that the Bishop of Tenerife made a few months ago. They also draw a vein from the common thread to talk about the legacy that politicians are leaving our children by destroying the island.
With masterful and constant voices and well-argued lyrics spun in the form of harsh criticism, they get the public to connect with them and understand the messages they want to convey. Showing off the hardness of the lyrics of those from Los Realejos, they pleased an audience that needed to listen to murga.
Chinchosos (1987)
His presentation begins with a soloist included and with an apparent musical improvement. His parade kicks off with the already mythical “I dreamed of seeing your gaze closely”, the carnival made into a song that completely lifts the public.
Their theme, which intended to break the Guinness record for karaoke with the largest number of people, was more in pretense than reality, since the computer support did not accompany them. Leaving aside the paraphernalia, they were left with a song empty of content in what they tried to be a reminiscence of the Escuelita Murguera de Bambones from 2003, singing it almost 20 years later. They used “karaoke” to criticize the queues on the highway or the change of mayor in Santa Cruz: “The same dog with a different collar, send them to move.”
Despite the fact that their musical improvement is notable and the intention of their lyrics is good, the expectation generated played a trick on them, staying with a fun and easy song that lacked lyrics, but that the public enjoyed interacting with them.
The Sound (2020)
The murga founded by Carlos Estévanez, Oscar Pérez, Itiel Delgado and Oscar Gómez took the Science Fiction stage for the first time in its premiere as a new murga and unveiled its parade “this is my happiness, feel my Carnival with you ” and his war cry “fix up”.
After a beginning in which the emotion of being “first-timers” was palpable, despite the fact that a large part of its components comes from giving the murga for years in Ni Pico Ni Corto, he began his song “Listen carefully and you will know the title of the song”, in which they take advantage of the deniers and take advantage of it as a common thread to criticize the banks, justice for forgetting the case of Ana and Olivia: “we refuse to forget it for the girls, their mother and their grandparents”, to continue ironically criticizing the PSOE and the political class in general, with which they raise their tone to tell them that they refuse to shut up in the face of injustices such as the fact that in the middle of the pandemic the salary was not lowered.
They close a performance in which the voices were lost at times, but with a well-crafted and spun lyrics that, although it did not manage to conquer the public, allowed them to sign a performance worthy of a first time.
