In 1997, the band Antònia Font recorded a four-track demo, with song titles: Cibernauta Joan, l’Univers és una festa, Rumba and Esl xifon és un aparato. The group stands out for its imaginative lyrics and free adaptation of diverse musical styles. They performed their first concert during the same year as the group Quintos de Bunyola. From this point onwards, the band began to play at all the bars in Majorca until the release of their first album.

ANTÒNIA FONT
Antònia Font is also the name of the group’s first album, which includes two tracks from the demo and an additional twelve new tracks. The general theme featured in the album defines the group’s narrative style: astronauts, fantastical journeys, ideal worlds, invented Mediterranean landscapes and home life. The LP is unique in that it has been re-released by Blau-Discmedi as an early Balearic pop gem, after having sold over four thousand copies; the album had already been sold out for more than a year.

A RÚSSIA
A Rússia (Catalan album released in 2001 by Rne.4) is a musical endeavour that aims for a minimal and direct sound.

Human relations and reflections on the meaning of life are themes that substitute, to some extent, the group’s flirtation with surrealism during its initial stage. The band’s live launch concert at the Teatro Principal in Palma stands out as an event at which the band consolidates itself as a local phenomenon. This album also brought Antònia Fuente into contact with the public as well as the Catalan critics.

ALEGRIA
The third album was released in 2002 on the Drac de Virgin label. Alegria, ten short songs, clearly belonging to the pop genre, was awarded the “Puigporret” (best album of the year), by the Catalan board of music critics at the Mercat de Música Viva in Vic (MMVV).

It was also rated as the second best album released in Spain, in the yearly charts compiled by Rockdelux magazine. The same publication also rated the track Dins aquest iglú in second place on their singles charts. The album’s launch tour played at Festimad in Madrid, Valencia (plaza de bous), Saragossa, Oviedo and Barcelona. Performances at Primaverasound and at the "Primer festival galàctic d’ ultramar y el pirineu" with Sisa i Comelade at BAM 2002, stand out as highlights at the final city on the tour.

TAXI
In 2004 Taxi was released.
It was awarded the Premio Altaveu, best pop album at MMVV, best album of the year by the Enderrock magazine and best album of the year in Rock'n'clàssic. The track Astronauta rimador was selected as best single of the year nationwide by GO magazine and the album came second place again in the Rockdelux charts.  The album includes a sixteen song CD, short film and short story, some fifty pages long. The subject matter is clearly science fiction; tourists in the future travel on space ships, in the same way they currently go on luxury cruises.

BATISCAFO KATIUSCAS
In this album, the creation of people, imaginary worlds, and the act of story telling, takes its listeners on a spiritual and inward journey. This is an analysis of psychology where madness and emotional unbalance is the major theme that infects all songs, to a greater or lesser degree. Batiscafo Katiuscas focuses on the exploration of these limits, probing the dark depths of feelings and memories. It is an autobiographical work, defined as such by the group itself.
Musically, Batiscafo Katiuscas leaves other musical tendencies to one side (rumba, bossa nova, jazz, etc.), played by the group in earlier works. On the contrary, this album is a return to classic pop music, with a marked nostalgia for music from the 80’s, which is, in essence, the sound track of the group’s teenage years. They recover and transform this, according to the directives of their own musical language, featuring sounds from the first computers (commodore, spectrum, joysticks, first generation electronic sounds), rhythms and arrangements extracted from the depths of their memories, used in songs that are full of nuances and contrasts: sensitive but direct, delicate but powerful, everything in just the right proportion.

Twelve delicious tracks, with a painstaking production, Batiscafo Katiuscas is a pop album and only pop in capital letters. This is an epic album.

COSER I CANTAR
For Antònia Font, everything is a piece of cake (“Coser i Cantar”)

And this everything includes playing the album live, an album that has come to symbolise one of the most ambitious, bold and radically original creations in the history of music: "Coser i cantar" (Blau-Discmedi, 07). Instead of summarising their discography with a standard Christmas compilation album, Joan Miquel Oliver (guitar), Pau Debon (voice), Pere Manel Debon (drums), Joan Roca (bass) and Jaume Manresa (keyboard) have demonstrated once more their proverbial non-conformism, summing up the best of their repertoire with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. The Majorcan quintet recreates a total of twenty tracks on a double CD+DVD and some fifty string and wind musicians iterpret arrangements written for the occasion by the cellist and contemporary composer Miquel Àngel Aguiló. The collection discovers a new vision, in a combination of symphony and pop.

Its more than noteworthy presence on the “Promusicae” charts during one of the most competitive periods of the year points to the commercial success of an album that has also been warmly received by critics. There is nothing strange about this: in another of these challenges the group is used to taking on, Antònia Font is the antithesis of solemnity, easily overcoming similar experiences based on the concept of orchestral production, another instrument, almost revolutionary. Some people will relate "Vitamina Sol" to the reflexive aspect of The Divine Comedy; others will glimpse the sound of the great Sufijan Stevens in "Dins Aquest Iglú" and some will try to find a connection with the Van Dyke Parks-Joana society in “Bamboo”. Lost time: as in all their former work, “Coser i Cantar” articulates a personal and non-transferable universe that sustains itself on an unusual baggage of references rooted, undeniably, within pop culture.

Fortunately, their universe continues without being part of this world. A long way from formulaic conventionalism, single thoughts, standard topics, concessions and routines, the group surpasses the expectations of an ever-growing fan base with each new release. If, thanks to "Antònia Font" (99) and "A Rússia" (01), the group became the best kept secret in Majorca, "Alegria" (02) represented the crew’s journey in “taxi” (02) to the peninsula towards the nostalgic future and submersion in the ramifications of the human condition with -"Batiscafo Katiuscas" (06)-, which defines them, definitively, in terms of excellence.  A universe in continuous expansion, both in poetry and (reasonable) astronomy and ten light years that Antonio Font, as a move prior to their electric summer tour, celebrated by surrounding themselves with the best classically trained instrumentalists in the country, during their launch tour of “Grandes éxitos”; no two are alike. That sums it up: “Coser i cantar”: it’s a piece of cake.

Discography:

• Antònia Font (1999)
• A Rússia (2001)
• Alegria (2002)
• Taxi (2004)
• Batiscafo Katiuscas (2006)
• Coser i cantar (2007)

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