Sopa De Cabra

Sopa de Cabra took their name from the Rolling Stones album Goats Head Soup and rank among the earliest standard-bearers of the Rock Catala scene. Guitarist Joan “Ninyin” Cardona and bassist Francesc “Cuco” Lisicic, both veterans of Ninyin’s Mine Workers Union Band, joined forces in 1986 with vocalist Gerard Quintana, guitarist Josep Thio, and drummer Josep “Pep” Bosch to launch the group. After the well-received self-titled debut of 1989 and the follow-up La Roda the next year, the band secured their place as Catalonia’s leading act by staging a landmark concert at Palau Sant Jordi in 1991. Their standing suffered sharply, however, when the Spanish-language release Mundo Infierno arrived in 1993 and met with widespread rejection. A run of both critically praised and commercially successful albums throughout the remainder of the decade helped repair that damage, yet the members chose to disband soon after issuing Plou I Fa Sol in 2001. Cardona, one of the founders, succumbed to colon cancer just three months after the final performance at Razzmatazz Bar; four years afterward the surviving musicians briefly reunited to cut the memorial track “Seguirem Somiant” for the tribute collection Podré Tornar Enrere. In 2011 the group scheduled seven reunion concerts across Barcelona, Girona, and Tarragona to mark their twenty-fifth anniversary.