You're not a rabid feminist, you reclaim cumbia and Mario Bross, you don't make post-hardcore or post-rock, you play the cello, you laugh at Eusnovas, and the Eibar has not been glamorous for a long time. However, they say it's modern to see you. Why?
I'm a feminist, I don't like labels, I could be a little eusebic, Eibar has more glamour than ever in recent times, we reuse factories for cultural initiatives… I don't think people come to make my concerts what is modern… What is modern? The one that's fashionable?
What did you learn with Anari, who didn't learn in the conservatory?
Experience of public access. And also, along with the great musicians, you always learn something. I removed the fear from the scene. What it's like to feel the heat of the audience enjoying music. Playing in a group, being part of a team…
“The cello is an instrument that I have very deep inside.” The phrase has many senses, doesn't it?
Since I was very young I have the cello next to me, and I play almost every day, I have been a cello professor… The instrument has some special characteristics: you touch on top, you note all the vibrations in the body, the shots between the legs… It has a lifetime with me. And it's, along with the voice, the most beautiful instrument in the world.
Did they encourage you to work alone abroad?
Foreigners, rather than abroad. I participated in a concert on experimental music in Bilbao. At that concert they played two musicians from Paris, with a record label, I was told that they had really liked mine and I was invited to play in Paris, at the presentation concert of their record label.
Did you touch strangers?
The reception of those who saw me in Paris was very good, that encouraged me, they asked me if I had the myspace. And I didn't even know what it was. I started thinking about a name, and I touched him at Eibar's Gaztetxe. People liked it, and Ander Barriuso proposed to burn something in the studio. I've long been passionate about myself. Otherwise, I would have taken the step.
You say that your songs, rather than experimental ones, are for all audiences. I agree with you…
Many of my songs are based on popular songs, they are close to pop or classical music, after all they are simple songs; that is why it may be such a broad audience: older women, young people and children… Experimental? The way we do it, the format -- they can be unusual.
He says he doesn't like sports, but working as a women's orchestra has a lot of physical and mind sports. When is a song related to sport in your tone?
I do not like to practice sport, but it is true that I train as an athlete to do direct. I get very tired of the direct ones: the concentration level is huge, there are many things I have to take into account…
Anyway, I could sing to an athlete: M. About Ali, Nadia Comanetxe, Arkonada, Schuster or Zinedine. I love the epic romantic aspect of sport. I would certainly ask Ander Izagirre for the letter.
What is punk for you? Yours also has that ...
Punka is something that is beyond Sex Pistols. For me, it's more than that, the way groups like Black Flag or Minor Threat lived music, they thought they were fighting for it, living in precarious conditions at that time.
Yeah, my stuff looks a lot like punk. I do what I get at the tip of my nose, I don't think if he's going to like the listener. They played a lot of groups, knowing little or nothing, and I, except the cello, played a lot of other instruments, like the ukulele. You may also not be afraid to touch anything. Let my son start with the album presentation 7 months ago, that's punk, play the first concert at midnight.
Should your albums be on the bookshelf “Music of the World” in stores?
To start with, disks are poorly organized in record stores so they can put them wherever they want. In addition, I do not like the world music label; the music that Ramon Trecet put on his show was a bit decaffeinated.
What would you say to those who claim that Euskera does not play music?
Euskera is a very appropriate language, it has a great musicality. A lot of R, Z, TZ, TX, TS… I also like it a lot. I do not understand that there are enough Basque groups singing in English, including some that I very much like. As a listener, I find it very important to identify with the group in the same language. [He makes a gesture of opening his heart with his hands].
In fact, as Anari said on these pages, his generation showed that in Basque you can cultivate any style…
Yes, it is. It is true that I sometimes invent languages, as I choose the instrument, to add musicality to the song, but when I want to tell something, give meaning to words, speak in Basque, because my mother is the language and I can be more deeply. It would be strange if he did something like that in English.
You’ve had a relationship with Victor Iriarte for a long time and you’ve done beautiful things together…
We're good friends and we've known each other for a long time. We have encouraged ourselves to do things and have cooperated many times. In my projects, it always has a place, and I have a place in them. I would say that we have an aesthetic taste similar to many things, which has a more radical vision that enriches my work.
The best way to get to emotions is to pull the sheet music apart?
You can also get excited by interpreting sheet music, but it's very different emotions. The emotion that you create when you compose music doesn't have the same, the creative process fills you up. It transforms, your head makes you catacrok, and that's what you're looking for in the listener.
How did you experience that carapace rupture when it started calling you “Rage Against the Machine that is thrown with the cello”?
A mixture of shame and emotion. I did what I liked with my instrument. I was going to the Conservatory hearing about anesthesia and dut and things like that, and I was thinking, "Wow." “Will my peers not hear more music? Don’t you feel like listening to rock and going to another concert that isn’t classic?” Weird things are them, not me.
Are they from such an extraordinary world?
Yes. And they shouldn't be. After all, everything is music and musical language. Sounds produce melodies and harmonies in the combination. That is the essential point. But cultured music tends to despise rock. It was hard for me to finish the conservatory, the discipline, the solitude, to have to touch with desire… it was hard, but well, all that has done what I am now.
They say that only the best provocators/communicators and Aki Kaurismaki are able to maintain the same face expression with any cunning. Do you make sense of the actor?
I've always made sense of the actor, yeah. When I was a kid, I said I would make dramatic art. Maybe if I had the chance to sing and move up, I would also change the expression further. If I don't do anything, I think what I'm saying. And Kaurismaki's is a merit, because given how it gives the beverage, keeping the same expression is a brand.
Has it been difficult, at the time of recording this album, to let another, Ibon Rodriguez, enter your world?
Quite the opposite. Ibon is a trusted man, an old friend. He has a very good taste, like mine, he knows me, he knows the songs, what I do, I say he has a third ear behind his head. He has addressed the letters, the pronunciation… It has been an experience worth repeating, of course.
Is Mursego's concept increasingly internalized?
Yes. I like it, but I also look for that, I have a tendency. Knowing more and more, better. He is interested in many things: a single flying mammal, the use of ultrasound, sleeping upside down, how they communicate, move, hunt… Those ultrasounds cannot be heard by people. Some sucks blood, vampires, immortals… Although I am very fond of garlic.
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