Refugio del Sonido, an EL PAÍS, Berklee Mediterranean Institute and Casa Limón charity music project to help refugees

• The presentation will take place on Tuesday, May 17 at 8 pm at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. The event, to be attended by many of those to have collaborated on the project, will feature performances by Jorge Drexler and Marwan.

• The collection consists of four book-albums, with songs performed by students from over 20 nationalities from Berklee College of Music, with music and lyrics by Javier Limón and texts by writers, artists and journalists.

• The albums can be purchased for 2.95 euros with EL PAÍS , from Sunday, May 22. Proceeds from the sale of the book-albums will go entirely to MSF Doctors Without Borders.

• Alejandro Sanz, Candela Peña, Dani Rovira, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Goytisolo, Almudena Grandes, Fernando Tejero and Isabel Coixet are among those to have worked on the project.

EL PAÍS, Berklee College of Music and Casa Limón launche on Sunday May 22 the first of the four book-albums from the Refugio del Sonido (Refuge of Sound) project.The collection consists of four book-albums, with songs performed by students from over 20 nationalities from Berklee College of Music, with music and lyrics by Javier Limón and texts by writers, artists and journalists from Ibero-America. Each album is named after a sea – the Aegean, Libyan, Ionian and Adriatic – and every song is named after a village along Europe’s southern border. The proceeds from sales will go to MSF Doctors Without Borders for its work with refugees, and to fund a scholarship at Berklee for a refugee musician. The price of each album, which will be available each Sunday from May 22, will be EUR 2.95.

Alejandro Sanz is joined by Javier Cámara, Marwan, Manuela Velasco, Fele Martínez, Buenafuente, Mamen Mendizabal, Toni Garrido, José Mercé, Candela Peña, Emilio Aragón, Michelle Jenner, Roberto Álamo, Juan Carlos Vellido, Guille Galván, Tristán Ulloa, Malena Alterio, Fernando Tejero, Daniel Grao, Antonio de la Torre, Laura Dominguez, Juana Acosta, Gorka Otxoa, Marwan, Eva Hache, Carmen Ruiz, Bimba Bosé, Dani Rovira and Clara Lago for the song Vienen (They’re Coming), specially composed for the project.

Refugio del Sonido is also conceived as a tribute to the diversity of cultures around the Mediterranean and EL PAÍS, EL PAÍS, Berklee College of Music and Casa Limón have invited 38 leading figures from the worlds of literature, journalism, music and film to offer their vision of the refugee crisis. John Carlin, Rosa Regàs, Martin Caparrós, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ismael Diadie, Juan Cruz, Emilio Aragón, Isabel Coixet, Almudena Grandes Santiago, Roncagliolo and Joan Manuel Serrat are among those to have lent their words to this project. Other collaborators include photographers Juan Carlos Tomasi, Anna Surinyach, Juan Medina, Mai Saki, Bernardo Pérez, Samuel Aranda and Carlos Spottorno..

Everyone involved in the Refugio del Sonido has done so selflessly.

The presentation of the project, to be attended by many of those to have participated, will take place on May 17 at 8 pm at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.