We’ve totally refurbished our website. We’ve added some attractive features, such as the Picap Radio and the section on albums à la carte, and we’ve revamped our corporate image. On Picap Radio, which speaks for itself, you’ll be able to listen to all the hits that Picap continues to put out on the market, in addition to the all-time greats, of course. As an absolutely innovative feature and an expression of Picap's firm commitment to offer the best service to all of you, we’ve started an ambitious project called Albums à la Carte: an exclusively web-based service where you can create your own CD to suit your taste, and even choose the cover you prefer. We are very proud of our new website and the new services we are launching for the public at large. Picap is a company deeply rooted in our country which continues to show a commitment to new technologies and new ideas just like when we started out, always thinking of the musicians and you.

Lluís Llach is one of the best Catalan musicians of all times. Several months ago, he decided to give his last concert and, as he put it, “stop acting like Lluís Llach”. Lluís has stopped recording records and giving concerts, but his legacy, his works, will remain with us forever. Now you can listen to these precious songs that form part of our lives in different versions. Si véns amb mi (If You Come with Me) is a tribute to this singer-songwriter in which his friends and fellow musicians from around the world interpret the Empordà musician’s songs in their own style. A different perspective revealing the personality of each musician, adding a new dimension to each piece by Lluís Llach. The first CD contains unpublished versions including: a spectacular interpretation of “Penyora” by Maria del Mar Bonet, who also created the illustration for the album cover – palm trees drawn in the sand; a gripping Pedro Guerra; a surprising Silvio Rodríguez; the spiritual force of Adrià Puntí and Miquel Gil; a splendid rendering of “Que feliç era mare” by Marina Rossell; a goose-bump inducing version of “Laura” in voice and piano by Roger Mas; Joan Isaac with his rendering of “Vida”, which seems written for him; Josep Tero; Joan Amèric; Túrnez & Sesé; Gorka Knörr; Manu Guix and many others. The second CD contains previously released versions in different languages, some of them quite well known, such as “Un núvol blanc” in Spanish (“Nube blanca”) by Ana Belén, and others unknown to the great majority of people, but excellent and stunning, such as: the version of “Abril 74” by the Italian, Alessio Lega; Jean-Michel Jarre's “l’Estaca”; the Brazilian Zizi Possi's rendering of “Cançó d’amor”; the Frenchwoman Catherine Ribeiro's “Lluna”; the Catalan group, Pomada with “Que tinguem sort”; the Polish group, Zespół Reprezentacyjny’s rendering of “Encara”; and the Catalan group Inadaptats covering “La gallineta”; among others. A tribute album to one of the greats that will allow you to enjoy his good songs in totally different versions and from unexpected perspectives; it reflects the truly global scope of the international singer from the town of Verges.

With PORT-BO there was a before and an after in the musical genre of havaneres. The band from Calella’s first album with Picap was “Arrel de tres”.. Port Bo has put out ten albums with Picap to date, apart from appearing on such albums as “Les nits de la bella Lola”, “Sardanes a la taverna” or “Picap 20 anys, el concert” in collaboration with other groups. Next week they will put out their eleventh with us, a precious CD you can hear live at the many concerts they have lined up this summer. It will accompany you the many times when you feel the overriding need of listening to songs like the ones included in “Busca’m a l’Empordà”. This recording was produced by Antoni Mas, author of the lead song by the same name, recorded at the studios estudis 44,1,1 in Aiguaviva, now one of the best in the country, with a design by Ramon Sauló. “Busca’m a l’Empordà” is a disc that departs from the usual fare, with melodies and rhythms ranging from the sardana by Mas Ros, “Tossa bonica”, to the lovely havanera, “Margarita”, by maestro Ortega Monasterio, who wrote it in Spanish and for which PORT BO has done a version in Catalan. You’ll also find an havanera-plus-prayer that Casanovas wrote when he was an adolescent and that had remained unpublished until now, “L’oració del pescador” (The Fisherman’s Prayer), and “Mare vull ser pescador”, the first piece by Antònia Vilàs sung by Port Bo. Other pieces by Casanovas, Josep Bastons, Antoni Mas and others make “Busca’m a l’Empordà” an extraordinary CD that stands out in the havaneres genre. It is one of those new works that, like the swallows, announce the arrival of good weather. “Busca’m a l’Empordà”, like Picap’s entire catalogue, is available in CD format as well as through our “Albums à la Carte” service and at major electronic download shops such as iTunes, eMusic, Napster, Yahoo Music, etc.