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Bringing American Tradition Closer

  • Always on the hardest road Topeka. Gaztelupeko Hotsak. Self-production. EUR 10.
Goio Matarranz, a former member of Hernani’s Madarikatuak group, had been trying for years to learn how to play the slide guitar and become part of an American music group. When he wrote the songs and had them prepared, the Topeka group was formed and they started with the essays. Here's your first job, and you've already started presenting it live. I myself had a great surprise, because I related the name of the group more closely to the folk of the Basque Country. This group has a lot of folk and pure styles, but also from America: bluegrass, rock and country. And it's not normal that there's a record here that's so careful about guitar and detail. Almost all songs are in Basque, mixing jokes and serious accounts, and although the group is solid, Tapia and Arkaitz Miner have also participated, among others.

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Goio Matarranz

“Itsaso usaina neure barruan, ontziratuko naiz hurrengo marean”. Norantz, AEBetarantz?

Konposatzeko onena bidaiatzea da, leihoak zabaltzen dizkizulako. Musika amerikarra oso gustukoa dut: gitarrak, soinua, slide-a… 1994an egonaldia egin nuen indioen erreserba batean eta lehen dobroa erosi nuen.

Gaur jakin dut Topeka Kansaseko hiriburua dela.... Zergatik aukeratu duzue?

Emazteari bururatu zitzaion. Euskarazko hitza da eta Kansaseko hiriburua ere bada. Izen indioa da eta “patatak lantzeko leku ona” du esanahia. Topekadaka bizi gara.

“Etendako ahots batek ez du kanta hau kantatzen”. Zer lortu dezake kantu batek?

Kantuak ez du ezer aldatuko, baina nire barrua baretuko du. Gaur egun, edozer ikusita ere, ez gaitu ezerk mugiarazten.
Topekaren marka dira “uuuu” koru horiek. Garrantzitsuak dira?
Bai, koruei garrantzi handia ematen diet, eskola zaharrekoa naizelako. Batzuek esaten didate 1960ko hamarkadako eragina dela, eta hori pozgarria da.

Aldizka irteten dira “Aldizka” moduko hitz inspiratuak?

Aldizka erraldoi bat izan nahiko nuke… baina azkenean pozik egon beharko gara garenarekin. Euskaraz hitzak egitea dezente kostatzen zait, euskaldunberria naizelako.

Grabatzerakoan, detaile guztiak buruan zenituzten edo bidean batzen joan dira?

Buruan neukan guztia. Kolaboratzaileak ere aspaldi nituen pentsatuta: Tapia eta Arkaitz Miner, eta oso-oso pozik gaude; batak cajuna jotzeko duen moduagatik eta besteak biolinarekin ia negarrak sorrarazi zizkidalako.

“Jei jou iupi ia ei iepa iepe ia”. Euskanglish karaokea?

Grabaketaren bezperan bururatu zitzaidan, Euskal Herrian agurrak egiteko modu asko ditugulako; eta horiek batu genituen.

Zer dute blues, country eta folk moduko soinu puruek?

AEBetatik txipa aldatuta etorri nintzen, konturatu nintzen estiloen esentziara jo behar nuela eta slide-arekin saltsatzen hasi nintzen.


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