Casa Montjuïc
By Michael Mueller
Behind a plain door on Vila i Vilà, a block back from the noise of Paral·lel, Casa Montjuïc programs the two things this city is thinnest on: ambient music played properly, and the films that never otherwise reach a Barcelona screen. Edu Roehrich opened the room in 2023 and still books it himself.
The concert hall is the draw. Plenty of places here will give you a DJ; very few will hand the stage to Lawrence English or Visible Cloaks and let the audience sit down for it, which the Casa does on a regular schedule – the Music for Airports cycle runs alongside the promoter platform Please Advice. Around the ambient nights the calendar picks up experimental rock and electronics, with Ezra Feinberg and Abul Mogard among those who have passed through. It is a listening room first, which is rarer than it sounds.
The cinema is the other half. Fuga, the house film cycle, takes its cue from MoMA’s New Directors/New Films and leans on first and second features – programming that assumes you’ll take a chance on a name you don’t know yet, and generally rewards it.
The building doesn’t work alone: it connects through to Laut, the electronic club run by Edu’s brother Marco, and to Tiberi Bar for eating and drinking, in the room that served as the bar of Sala Hiroshima – the dance venue that held this address until 2021. Come for a film and see what is on next door.