On our new website we’ve added a very attractive section for emerging groups wishing to make their music known, the Demo Contest. Now you have the opportunity of presenting your demo. Now your music will be heard, and what’s more important, evaluated. Picap will listen very carefully to all demos received. But to make things more interesting, we thought we’d create a contest by popular vote. For more information, just click on the section Demo Contest.

Last September we had the enormous pleasure of launching one of the best albums, "Terra Secreta", by our most universal singer. Since then, Maria del Mar Bonet has been immersed in a whirlwind of live and studio concerts and interviews, performing throughout Spain and appearing on major Spanish television and radio programs. This album will go far, to judge by its excellent quality. The first results of this well-rounded disc are promising – it was number 1 in iTunes sales in October. Few Catalan musicians can boast having captured such an important market as the digital one.

Picap will start off the year with great pleasure. Get ready, because the new albums by Albert Fibla, Nua, Baetúria, Xavi Vidal & Berni Mora, Lupe Villar, Naltrus, Rodamons and the debutants Pitjorestàstu will come out during the first quarter of 2008. Picap continues to show a firm commitment to high-quality music by both emerging musicians and those who’ve been touring for years. We’ll keep you informed every time one of these albums appears so you’ll be the absolute first to know.

Doing justice to its long tradition of publishing local music, Picap will have the honor of putting out several reissues during the first quarter of 2008 from among its hit list, including albums by the emblematic Àtic, Sonia Cortés and the popular Vicenteta.

Worthy of special mention are the reissues we will put out during the first quarter of 2008 from the PDI-Edigsa catalogue. Edigsa, a label that was later taken over by PDI, played a very significant role in the early years of the "Nova Cançó" (“New Song”, a Catalan folk-rock movement), serving as an effective platform for launching and making nearly all the singer-songwriters of the movement known, from the most diverse members of Els Setze Jutges to Raimon, not to mention their publication of albums by solo singers, vocal groups, vocal and musician ensembles, choirs and choral societies, as well as significant recordings of music for children, poetry and classical and traditional music. Now that Picap has acquired the PDI-Edigsa catalogue, we will be reissuing over 60 top albums in the first quarter of 2008 by bands such as Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, Al Tall, Tete Montoliu and many more. In addition, of course, to the reissues we’ve already published in 2007, such as Gato Pérez "Romesco", Albert Pla's emblematic "Ho sento molt" and Lluís Llach's first LP, "Les seves primeres cançons" (His First Songs).