Getting to know Pasaggem Werk by Walter Benjamin? Searched at the landfill of history, it was the most ambitious attempt to read the time. What has left us in the landfill of our history? How many unpublished treasures, how many quiet heads, how many unheard voices?
What was Basque Country? All trikiti, all dancing? All shot, all explosive? All rock and punk? All athletic, all real? They tell linear stories that look for linear futures. But even if it seems, history is not a fossil. It is time for constant adaptation and re-adaptation.
Because this cutting-edge piece of experimental electronic music was built in the cavity of the wrestler and folkloric Zaldibia rural. Unpublished, Hegoa Diskk brings Haizetxe from Alberto Lizarralde, a sweet house connected with the whole world. Because the past cannot be read linearly.
For example, in the 1960s – before Ez dok amairu started – at the premises of the Old Part of San Sebastian, young people played electric guitars, Beatles or something fashionable to imitate. The classical guitar has been the vanguard in the hands of Laboa and Iriondo. But a hundred years earlier, in 1889, the bertsolari donostiarra Rosario Artola sang coplas with guitar: Nik guitarcho bat baidet / Maite eta lagun. Because innovation is a continuous chain and not a ladder.
History isn't what you think. Nor do I believe. Because at all times unexpected events happen behind us, in our shadow. The future is happening now and the future is happening in the past.
From the Wind House you see the most beautiful sunrises in Lañarri. And from the deep air of nature, Alberto Lizarralde spoke in a language that everyone will understand. Then the seed was reserved to have roots and trees and fruits and flowers in the future. Today, this sound of the past is presented as an opportunity to imagine the future.
New York, 1960. At a UN meeting, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister and UN ambassador Jaja Wachucu slept. Nigeria had just achieved independence on 1 October. Therefore, Wachuku became the first UN representative in Nigeria and had just taken office.
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