I met Itsaso Gutierrez Retolaza in the 1990s, when he was part with two other young Donostiarras from Jauko Barik, a group as daring and unclassifiable as tender. The band of girls later acquired a more rocker character, and in addition to publishing a model and two albums, they toured Europe. Years later, I discovered Itsaso's track in the Keike group. Ondarroa's band mixed metal and rock and also published several albums; Itsaso was one of the guitarists.

Shortly after, in the fourth edition of the Danbaka music competition organized by Goiena, the Xarma group, unknown to me, surprised us by finding a live group that filled with melodic hardcore, hard rock, rage, immense feeling and stage. The group had two guitarists and two singers, one girl and one boy. Who do you think was the girl? They easily won the contest prize, published the album, but in a short time, due to the discrepancies between the participants, the group was dissolved.

Now, in less than a year, because of her hard head and her tenacity, we will soon have to call her ‘Motörhead’. Itsaso Gutierrez Retolaza returns with the new ON team. Accompanied by Dennis Alberdi (drums) and Ibai Suárez (bass), he has made available to us a record recorded in the Koba studio of Xanpe. The voice and the guitar are yours.

Itsaso wanted to use rock to show and denounce the injustices suffered by women. I got it.

ON is a melancholy, a report of bitter experiences, but also of hard struggles that demonstrate clarity and a positive side. Musically, it's also melodic, but also potent. So, in the eleven songs sung in Euskera they have brought melodies to the bulimia, to the frustrated dreams of women, to the mistreatment, to the relationships of couple, to feminism, to the prison of Saturraran… Among them, the Single Haragitan, which evolves from the punk pope to the most powerful stoner; the winning song of the Izanapa Pirates of Donpost-Rock, the Song