Hot Blues opened its doors in Igualada in 1998. A bar, café and music pub run by Marien Flores and Gès Burgès. A unique place that soon became a meeting point for the city’s music lovers, where they could share their passion for music. A place with a lot of personality where LPs or CDs were always playing instead of the radio, and where new music was exchanged and listened to on a daily basis.

HBS1 – Hot Blues Sessions arrives in 2022 as a tribute to that space that was unique and vital for the development of the Catalan music scene. A place where you could hear for the first time what are now great artists. A special limited edition vinyl that captures the cultural facet and recovers a selection of the concerts that took place in the Hot Blues concert hall (Igualada) from 2008 until its closure in 2017, after 19 years of activity.

HBS1 creates a sound journey based on twelve different artists and groups. A non-stop musical session where musicians, genres (pop, rock, blues, jazz, free jazz, electronic, afro, flamenco or folk) and different dates coexist, reflecting in the most sincere way the open and eclectic programme offered by the venue to the public.

The visual part of the vinyl brings a small photographic and graphic compilation of the concerts, made by the members of Hot Blues, by the audience or by professional photographers and illustrators. Hot Blues Sessions is a project headed by Cels Burgès, son of Marien and Gès, Hot Blues’ founders, with the collaboration of Hidden Track Records, Bankrobber and Underpool.

Oriol Roca (drums) appears on “Dos Camells” by Nico Roig (guitars) with Xavi Lloses (keyboards) and Carola Ortiz (clarinet). Recorded live at Hot Blues on 2014.