Perhaps one of the most unexpected second lives of 2024. Christopher Owens returned to records, almost ten years after an album that seemed to finally affirm a good life after Girls, Chrissybaby Forever. That didn’t happen, but rather a tragic story. Owens was in a car accident, the absurd medical costs led him to sell everything, his partner in Girls, JR White, died a few years later, and it took Owens some time to find his bearings. It wasn’t easy, not at all. Last year, a number of articles/interviews brought the story of the accident and his disappearance into the public eye, or at least to a wider audience. The return to Owens’ world was also made with a new album, I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair.
Music to cast out those demons, to tell of a journey that no one has to go through. It’s also an exercise in our humanity, in our ability to resist, to survive, to survive. That’s what Christopher Owens’ latest album is about, and that’s the musician we’ll be meeting at this concert. But it’s also the Christopher Owens who makes ideas circulate with so little, who creates a universe with few words and makes us walk through it for eternity, listening and re-listening to the songs over and over again. If the music of the early years – that of Girls – exists as immediate, strong, extremely relatable, Owens’ solo music has always existed in persistence, in the hope that someone is here, on this side, to listen to him.
Owens’ voice in 2025 is that of someone who sings with the will to create something that counts time and wants to resist time. If before his music lived to explode before anything changed, today it exists to find a path and persist over time. That’s the beauty of I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair, of our reunion with Christopher Owens, with whom we’ve never really been out of touch, we’ve just been in a relationship that’s been somewhat missing for a while. And, like the greats, their music doesn’t want to make us forget those reasons, but to remember them, sing them, refine them, so that we can all understand them together. AS.

Sul is an artist who explores the boundaries between her great passions: music and sound design. After her debut EP Já Agora (2022), she is preparing to release her first full-length album, QUER QUER QUER, scheduled for release in autumn 2025 by Cuca Monga. In 2023, she was awarded the FNAC New Talent Award and, in 2024, she collaborated with Moullinex and Yulia Niko, a Berlin-based electronic music producer, on the track Sand, consolidating her name on the emerging music scene.Composer and producer of her own songs, A Sul seeks to transform sound into image, giving her music a strong visual and cinematic character. The result is an immersive experience, both live and on record, where each of the eleven tracks that will make up the new album—including the already revealed Gin and Tela—unfolds into evocative narratives, balancing vulnerability with a light and humorous side.