#Euskal Kantagintza Berria

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Mikel Laboa / Joan Baez / Itxaso y Daniel Pérez. “Txoria txori”

Ez Dok Amairu es el nombre de un movimiento musical surgido en el contexto de la Nueva Canción Vasca (Euskal Kantagintza Berria), que tuvo plena vigencia entre los años 1966 y 1972, en los últimos años de la dictadura franquista, cuando la Europa libre se convulsionaba con el movimiento hippie y las protestas estudiantiles que finalizaron con el episodio conocido como “Mayo francés” o “Mayo de…

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Benito Lertxundi – Altabizkar e Itzaltzuko Bardoari

Benito Lertxundi – Altabizkar e Itzaltzuko Bardoari

Spain, 1981, Basque folk / euskal kantagintza berria This is simply a beautiful album, quite straightforward and satisfying in its neo-Medieval instrumentation, including the txapela, dulcimer, and cromorno. The first track is a 20-minute eight-stanza epic about the Battle of Orreaga in 778 AD, told from the perspective of the Basque people. For all the bloody imagery in the lyrics, this music…

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Mikel Laboa – Lau-Bost

Mikel Laboa – Lau-Bost

Spain, 1980, euskal kantagintza berria What in the everloving fuck is “Komunikazio-inkomunikazio”? It’s a glorious, avant-garde meandering between snatches of song and bits of spoken-word recitation—sometimes in English, sometimes in … backwards language? Don’t listen to this while smoking weed, my brothers. Anyway, what about the genre? RYM: “At a time when the Basque culture was oppressed,…

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Mikel Laboa – Bat-Hiru Spain, 1974, Euskal Kantagintza Berria, singer-songwriter Apparently this one some kind of experimental take on Basque music, and thus the second disc of this three-disc work was banned.