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INPRIMATU
The opportunity to be contemporary
  • The revolutionary and fighting Basque Country is a matter of the past. I would like to say that I believe that in the past we see the revolutions that have happened, but at the present time we have more of a conservative. Especially in the field of culture.
Xalba Ramirez @xalbaram 2020ko ekainaren 12a

J Martina is Javi Jorajuria of Barañain and Kattalin and Ane Barcena of Larrabetzu. The Bárcena sisters have offered a concert in full lockdown from home, with the electronic bases of Jorajuria and full of autotune. Like most streaming concerts, it doesn't have the appearance or emotion of a live, but what has made this concert special has been the group's premiere.

They've released two songs, by chance, during lockdown. Slow electronics, self-space and attention to letters are the main components of the group. And they've already aroused great interest.

Paul Beitia beautifully translated the song Viejo Mundo de Camarón de la Isla into Euskera for another project, and with the version of this version the group was presented with a careful video clip made at home. They propose a very crude production, with a few boxes of rhythm and symptoms, quite far from the usual commercial structure.

The novelty of the proposal is not determined by the use of these elements. In the use of these elements, but contingencies. I would say that elements have been selected to make songs and it is already, and not looking for the “Basque trap”, the “Basque reggaeton” or I know what label they have been so far, looking for that market niche.

“To him who nodded his hard head with him,” said the great Carlos Puebla; and in ours with a self-tune and similar electronic music: “Trap,” they say. What is original around the world, a new art challenge, here we see it with mistrust. The J. Martina had to admit that they had fewer haters than they thought.

I heard once Miss Elbira Zipitria took her students to a Basque festival in Iparralde. And not that Dok amairu took the students out into the street. He didn't see that new Basque guitar song with good eyes. Miss Zipitria, so progressive for some things… OK!

“The street has burned, I am not afraid. Will we see smoking?” they have opened the concert in streaming, which I hope will end a season. A little hope in a new generation and in a scene that will have the ears more open in the Basque culture. Take all that you have to take on fire, so that we are more contemporary and, why not, more futurists.