Surprisingly, the Aire sisters recently released their first album, in December of last year, but we are happy to be able to hear on a long album their sweet and forceful voices and their extraordinary and exciting way of singing.
Before, among others, they recorded the song for the festival Euskal Herria Zuzenean on the soles of the rose; with the txakun band, the song Santxo Bizia gave it; with Mikel Markez, Komize dut; and with Niko Etxarte they also recorded, but they have not composed their long album until they have formed Bidexka.
Look, Amaia and Paxkalin Aire sang for the first time in a plaza 23 years ago, but since they were young they sang at home in Urepel (Baja Navarra). Every day. In yours music has always been in the environment, also in the car, when they traveled with their father and mother. Along with the cradle songs, it will surely be their first musical memories they listened to on the radio when it came to eating. In that house, the verses were listened carefully, as the father is the bertsolari Mixel Aire, and the grandfather Xalbador.
The beautiful work of harmonizing the mother with the house piano and the sweet walks were also a good excuse for the three daughters to start singing. When they worked together in the house, the mother would often tell them: “You or you are singing or singing all day.” By then, Miren, Amaia and Paxkalin already had the fondness for singing inside. They started singing with their friends and then they went to the plaza in their village.
Some of the discs that had fathers and mothers at home, the ones that listened and sang often, are the ones that offer us on the record. Songs that have become classics and that we have known from the mouths of the creators of the new Basque song: Mixel Labeguerie, Eñaut Etxamendi, Pantxo Etxeberri, Ramuntxo Carrere, Mikel Laboa, Lourdes Iriondo, Xabier Lete...
The sounds and words of these songs have not changed, but they have been dressed in beautiful harmonizations learned from their mother and their unique voices. Along with those songs, they've collected the album from the Arrosa Manor, which was created a few years ago.
Through the work Bidexka, Miren, Amaia and Paxkalin Aire want to pay tribute to these creators and their parents for not breaking the way in the transmission of culture. The album is, in essence, a small path closely linked to the main path of tradition.
The students learned to participate in a tribute to Lete in which Lore bat Zauri of Xabier Lete, Labeguerie was honoured in the tribute to Labeguerie in the call of the mountain of Mixel Labeguerie, Eñaut Etxamendi, poet of the Basque Country, and Semea in tribute to bertsolari. On the album they also sing the bertso Neska bat haur behar of the Xalbador itself.
Timothy Ozaeta has been in charge of recording, mixing and mastering, and has done a great job, giving shine to the excellent voices of the Aire sisters and to the harmonies between them.
Of the thirteen songs on the album, half are made with a simple voice. The rest, with the accordionist Sebastien Desgrans. Her notes are simple collaborators of the voices of the sisters Aire, and Miren, Amaia and Paxkalin sing as usual, following the way of singing that they like, natural, naïve and without artifacts. They perfectly convey the emotion of their singing. They just sing because of the need for the song. However (Xabier Lete, Lourdes Iriondo), to Semea (Xalbador, Pantxo Etxeberri), this love seems in you (Sara Soto), to the soul and to the body in the umbilical cord (José Anton Artze, Mikel Laboa), to a girl in children's needs (Xalbador Carrete), are the first words.
In each song they find "a certain truthfulness", according to the sisters Aire themselves in the presentation of the album. “Someone who counts something. Deep. That moves us. These are poems that revolve around some questions about life. They have no expiration date on necessity. They can live the same way 20 years before or 20 years later.”
We are also excited every time the Aire sisters sing those songs, and thanks to the album Bidexka we get more excited.
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