I have once written on these pages that, of course, there are musical groups in tons in the Basque Country that, despite obtaining a differential and round result, never manage to make known properly, just remember it with names. I can quote Norman, Anger, PAM and many more, including the latest work by the Kaskezur Group, which was recommended to me by Koldo Otamendi of Musikazuzenea.
These baztaneses I met in 2011 with the second album, and I interviewed them on these pages through Planes Jokua. I was very surprised by the effort and the accomplishments they were making to break the schemas. They were able to practice classical rock, funky and psychedelia, to make gestures to Negu Gorriak and to practice the punk rock by stepping the accelerator. And in the words, they took the imagination to the extreme, playing almost every now and then Surrealism. They were also not far from surrealism, when they recorded the album the last dogs sent to space without capsules of the first Return, of which I only know their name.
But let's go to the Ilgora album, also self-produced by the group. The quartet has stopped sending things to space, has started playing more seriously and has done a round job, recorded in Subiza by Hans Krüger and mastered by Karlos Osinaga.
Although he's an advertiser of intentions that's going to take the album, he can wake it up: the naughty guitar in favor of the melody yes, but it's a sticky piece to sing among friends, xinpatica. I've fired him because then comes the first blow with Sonik: With an instrumental definition similar to that of Fugazi, the voice records of the Ama Say pattern have been made and manufactured with rounded noise pieces. Continuing to claim the 1990s, Zerutik lur is a special rhythm power-pop gem that, as guitars are twisting, almost spiraling, is great. The robot Bizia leaves no room to breathe: a solid guitar riff guides us fast and strong towards the abyss. And the pause came, with the unspeakable Crescent Moon Instrumental.
But we haven't yet jumped off the train and the speed is increasing again:With Izan we go downhill at an even more intense pace, until we meet guitarist rock and Australian melancholic and bitter rock. From there we will continue the march more slowly: The return of a noria is noise-pop pure or pop-rock of a very powerful base; in the song Galdutako gara, they remember Itoiz and Xabi San Sebastian, who tried to break the song very explicitly. And in Oreka, wanting to make sense of the name of the song, the rocker guitar, more naughty, the whispered voice and the same noise have united it with intensity. A beautiful work that claims with imagination and firmness the noise-pop of the 1990s!
I was surprised – in a good sense – by this new project. In Bergara, Aitor Aldanondo, created around a stone, has many senses. In this work he wanted to somehow get what he has lived for years.
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In the end he has done so. Finally, after years of progress, bertsolari Odei Barroso has taken his first solo job. Well, bertsolari doesn't. Raplari before being bertsolari. But the wisdom of the verse is well used, to say with rhyme to those who had to say and shake themselves... [+]