Multiple surfaces
Eyelids
Xabi San Sebastián
Oreja, 2023
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I've always thought that this Donostian musician and creator has never gotten the place or attention it deserves. But even if it doesn't, we have their songs left, because there they are. Because it has something special, or more than one thing, that shows it, and with it its value for ever to move forward.
I've long been fascinated by Yesterday I'm the round song and thanks to that piece I met him. Later I discovered that before acting alone I had a background in the back with the Plaza del Hielo group, the Alboka project and other folk initiatives.
And that is, besides being a beautiful and distinctive voice, it has the ability to write elaborate melodies that come in and stay. And, thanks to the learned and lived, it has many differences: Xabi rockero, Xabi, Basque folk lover, Xabi, darker, as well as the ability to endorse all these influences and to fix songs with the most stylish suits. Against it (not in my opinion) one can argue that music can be somewhere.
On the other hand, he has always been able to meet extraordinary musicians, nor has he done the opposite in his work: Karlos Aranzegi, Nando Neira, Quico Pugés, Arkaitz Miner… What a tempo and dress the songs!
It is your fifth long solo job and you can travel (as you like) for the ten themes: No one elegantly diffuses the work. Entzun has a beautiful melody and a San Sebastian brand with splashes of Irish folk. In Konpai, he jumps almost in memory to the kupela of Dubliners and McGowan. The steles in the sand is a popa with folk costumes that grows. Xabi comes dressed in Andresi Zimmerman. The discontinuous lines are blurry and smooth but penetrating, one of them. The brilliance of our eyes is the art of the 1970 Basque singers. Hungry sheep are black and rolled sheep, more guitars, raw and American, but unusual, big. Our skies or Lete? Finally, Jantzi is a pop-rock for Friday night's delight with a touch of American light.
Punk. Punk is back, or, rather, has never gone. Those from Zikine come from Lekitxo (and not from Lekeitio), with the elegant Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan who have recently published with Pentecost.
Philosophy “Eixu Zeuk”. That is the basis and the goal. “Take the... [+]
SELF-DESTRUCTION HAS BEGUN. 3, 2.1.. ZON! ! !
Bidehuts, 2023
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Giving too much importance to it being politically correct, but at a time when the right policy is lacking,
I will say that from Abregotarrak, like from... [+]
The sum of four elements does not always give four, usually more than that. And of course, they walked through a number of projects and to know how and why they came together. Atxe, Led Inferno, Osoron and Txerra. We thought they were going to make punk for the background, but... [+]
You cannot read a group without taking into account the past of your colleagues; and in this case, exercise is even more difficult. There's a member of Tatxers, and Borla reminds the Tatxers group. It is inevitable to think about the previous group, but we stayed short, because... [+]
Fly Shit is one of the few hardcore groups in Debagoiena. Without great intentions and totally convinced when they do, they have a firm path on their backs without squeezing the hurts and at the same time without cuts. Moreover, they have never given a bad concert, nor a major... [+]
Oñati is a special village in many ways, and let us not say, under the eyes of neighbouring peoples, what glasses we wear! People and citizens have many characteristics of their own, and the movement surrounding the youth assembly, both in the past and in the surroundings of... [+]
How many things go unnoticed. Even if they move in niches, is each niche no longer too big? This EP by artist Alai comes from Tolosa with a perfectionist electronics like breakbeat, jungle, UK garage and aromatized house with an Afro-Caribbean flavor.
And what I thought was a... [+]
Even though I felt like Escorbutin in my youth, Antton Carretero, born in Aramaio, has always had
a longer look: punka yes, of course, and the kinya is better, but he looks at many other styles going through prejudices, canallagos, more sensitive… All of them help to bring... [+]
I placed the group in the
queer movement of Madrid, and recently I had the opportunity to know it in its essence, the direct one. Then I learned that the group was created by Bethlehem (voice and guitar), born in Argentina and moved from young to Madrid, and that he joined
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In the past, we already knew by heart all Joker’s phrases from The Dark Knight, as “chaos agent.” I had him, for example, to explain his behavior: "Do I think of a guy with a plan? Do you know what I am? A dog running behind cars. I wouldn't know what to do if I hit him. I'm... [+]
Non-Self-Production
Chaining, 2023
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I have never known very well what the British roll is, perhaps because I have never been very fond. However, I have no doubt about what they say. It can be seen in sound and melody, a... [+]
Over the red light
The Clayton
Self-production, 2023
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This group of Aramaio (Araba) drew attention in the vicinity of Arrasate in 2019, when they began to interpret that they were very young and published a rock model... [+]
Pelax doesn't listen
Valen, 2024
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If there is not enough time to read this text, I will summarize it: listen to Pelax. Now you have no excuses, they've uploaded all of their discography to Spotify for the first time, even... [+]
La Urbe
Chulería, JODER!
Self-production, 2024
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The Disorder group, which emerged in the Left Margin of Bizkaia in late adolescence, drew my attention to the credibility and freshness of the punk rock in its... [+]