Escape from the Sargori is impossible in this city. The street thermometer indicates a temperature above 40 degrees and the cement emits smoke. Bilbao, more than ever, is a death trap. Even though the protection in the cave of my house is the best choice, I go out into the street to look for the crypts that hide on the map of the asphalt desert. I found one of them at the pier of Ripa. Muelle taberna is a good refuge, as it has an experimental musical performance organized from the ashes of the former Larraskito complex.
The first concert was the Leun Dura project, a trio formed by Itziar Markiegi, Iker Arrazola and Joseba Agirrezabalaga. Industrial dissonances face triballistic batteries to ignite the war between organic and synthetic. Rather than conflict, symbiosis emerges. Itziar, with Joseba travelling, is a demon on on the head of the machine and under the mask that is wearing dressed, a destructive smile is noticed. What to say about Arra: Playing the battery in the resolution process is not free and seeing it is priceless. All three have put the right soundtrack at this end of time.
The second afternoon session was offered by another trio: Composed of Mikel Vega, Izarne Oyarzabal and Fernando Ulzio. An intimidating proposition that combines music, improvisation and dance, combining guitar, saxo and the dance steps of the clake. It's been a two-way ritual, because it's not clear who sets the rhythm, who faces impotence, the fear of being mute, who is the driver in a recital that overflows with tenderness. The scenarios depend on a spell, and so are those around us. Art has to be seduced and that is what they have achieved thanks to the invocations that call the ground.
It's a luxury to watch Garazi Navas live. It is able to swim at the frontiers of the vanguard and academicism and bring the accordion to another dimension. Master as one more organic appendix of your body. In the performance of Muelle he has created painful melodies that have left us dead. The excess bellows of hell have rarely been so appropriate. He also dares to sing, overcoming the chord sounds without the microphone. Pure magic.
The last were Miriam Rzm and Garazi Gorostiaga. The first one has gone up in a suit of sensors and has played with himself and his partner's body, while he works with synths, sounding the contact between them. It starts as a game of friends, creating exciting moments.
According to some theories, when a collapse occurs, the fungi will survive and resurrect the earth. Fungi, those mysterious little organisms. In the face of the collapse of our cities, and also in the face of cultural collapse, the initiatives that have begun to flourish like mushrooms will make us hope. What happened in Muell is just one example, because many others are about to come.
Eire
WHEN: 31 August.
WHERE: Plaza 23 de September.
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On Saturday night, the Erandio festivities and the storm have fired the month of August. The concert of the zumaiarra band Eire is announced for 22:00 p.m. Lately the group... [+]
CALIPHATE 3/4
WHEN: 1 September.
WHERE: Sala Zentral de Pamplona.
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For many it is the last day of vacation. "A plan to bring a good end to the summer." On Sunday night, the Zentral Hall hosted a group of spectators who... [+]
UGER
When: 11 August
Where:Ermita de Santa Clara (Ondarroa)
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We've gone to try to survive the heat on the coast, we've bathed in the beach that was being emptied, dining out and watching the concerts of Santa Clara Day... [+]
Summer comes and with it the popular festivals of towns, neighborhoods and cities. Festivities have always been the refuge of social and political demands, neighborhood relations and popular euphoria. They take our streets and for a few days they are an example of... [+]
Bi edizio baino ez zaizkio geratzen elkartasun jaialdiari. Antolakuntzak iragarri bezala, ohiko jaialdia eginen dute abenduaren 28an, eta 2025eko uztailean lau eguneko jaialdi berezi baten ostean, agur esateko une gazi-gozoa helduko da. Aritz Colio Hatortxuko antolakuntzako... [+]
SILK
WHEN: February 23.
PLACE: Sala Totem de Villava.
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We had no doubt that Pello Reparaz and his band prepared the show, the question was how it was. The first three concerts of Aaztiyen tour in Villava –(sic.) In... [+]
The last crusade, the last pleasure, the last sigh... The repertoire of Basque music dedicated to the last is prolific. The latter, moreover, gains added value when it cannot be predicted, even if groups are increasingly measured when and how to say goodbye.
Recently, Huntza... [+]
Mefsst! Feminist musical revolt
WHEN: 24 February
WHERE: Hiruputzu youth centre in Zarautz
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Mefsst starts with the Ainara Legardon conference! Second day of the festival in the gaztetxe Hiruputzu of Zarautz,... [+]
Mice + Nakar + Les Sauvaje MJ
Where: At the Athenaeum of
Elorrio When: 23 December 2023.
[Photo: Ainhoa Iraola]
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Premiere of the new season of the Ateneo music cycle. All tickets exhausted. So they told us, when... [+]
Dismissed by Willis Drummond
Where: Casa de Cultura de Intxaurrondo, San Sebastián
When: 5 January
Guests: Zetkin, Elvis Caino DJ, Indez DJ and Zumitren DJ.
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... we will ever say. Go see him, but no longer. On 5 January... [+]