If the old adage that behind every great band is a rhythm section as talented as the songwriter, then Ojos De Brujo are truly a great band.

Four rhythm players on cajon, tabla, congas and drums were often made five by roving MC, Maxwell Wright, while bass player, Javi Martin, with his maestro-like slap, tap and harmonics on the bass, made the backing band six.

Everyone else on stage, along with the entire crowd, Catalan or not, contributed hand claps to build an enormous, stomping Rhumba Catalana.

Yet Ojos De Brujo, or Sorcerer’s Eyes in English, would probably choke at being called Rhumba Catalana. Not because it is a brand of traditional gypsy-led music from Barcelona, routinely dismissed as a distant and unwanted cousin of flamenco, but because such a description is so inaccurate in reflecting their global sound.

Sunday’s fiestas began and ended with flamenco soloist Susi Zapateando furiously and seductively twisting and stomping in her black and red polka dot dress with all the passion of an ululating Andalusian at Easter.

Frontwoman Marina “La Canillas” Abad, whose chants shared Susi’s southern roots and Black Eye Peas’ Fergie when Ojos went hip hop, soon arrived.

Despite occasionally losing her tone as she twirled her bright yellow skirt back and forth, her energy was inspirational.

DJ Panko scratched and bounced behind his decks through new album Aocana’s brassy funk and trip hop numbers, while a solo trumpet bellowed with the might of Miles Davis.

The East was in there, too, on Una Verdad Incomoda, along with Wright’s Cuban scatting, to leave only one thing missing: a traditional Spanish number to catch one’s breath.