SOINU SINFONIKOA

Published by DEIA, August 18, 2011



It’s the middle of the night, Tuesday August 16. I get up and it’s 3 in the morning. I turn the TV on and a gentleman is reading the Tarot cards. A great many of people would wish to know which is going to be their future, according to them, to be able to take the correct decisions in their life. Is the future written out? What a fantastic mystery! Just image when I started to "play" with that old trikitixa, with one or two broken-down buttons, if somebody would have been able to tell me the essential point that it would be for me in my life. Seated in the living room, I look back on my long and fascinating career that I have taken to stub with this bellows of hell behind my back and I awake up from that journey with the vertigo of facing in a few hours a new project: Recording next to the Symphony Orchestra of Basque Country, directed by Enrique Ugarte, some of the most important themes of my career. Of course the idea impassions me and at the same time it is a hoped-for project years ago. It is not easy to try to join two worlds like the one of classical music with the folk music or more traditional. Few times they interweave. We already work side by side previously in a concert officiated at the Kursaal of Donostia, but now we are going to ruffle up the curl and to make together, in a different and more innovative way, the themes selected for such project, side by side, that will be from those beginning songs that accompany me from the very start of my music career till the last new album Ultramarinos & Coloniales. Definitively, we want to achieve a high-quality music and energy album filled with illusion, effort and lots of talent. Who would have said year’s ago that a trikitixa would be seen accompanied by the whole symphony orchestra? I´m so excited thinking about that, aside from being new recording album, we are also creating new roads to explore, as much in classical music as in traditional one, uncovering new frontiers to an instrument like the trikitixa. I hope that between all of us we will be able to materialize all the unique and special moments that we are going to live thanks to the music. Now if the future of today was written or not in the present of yesterday, it’s the least important. Break a leg!!!!

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TANGER

Published by DEIA, June 30, 2011



Seated in my chair taking notes over my small sensations that comes to my mind in my notebook remembering the first time that I stepped on Moroccan lands, our destiny? The city of Tangier, to attend the Tarab Tangier, international festivity of folk music in which we were invited to share our music with groups of India, Iran, Portugal and Bulgaria.

Tangier is a city in the northern part of Morocco situated at the coasts of the Strait of Gibraltar, and example of a different neighbor’s culture. The Festivity, in his third edition and under the motto Crossroads, took place the 22nd till the 26th of June, in which we performed Saturday the 25th. It’s time to go out on stage and we perform in a privileged surrounding, a Portuguese’s fortress of the XVIIth century on the dock. I was delighted by the spirit of this soul festivity as a distinguish link of artistic and cultural international interchange level. Coincidences of life, we had just released our new project Ultramarinos & Coloniales and, all of a sudden, I see myself walking by those incredible Medinas, (The Medinas are the most exciting places of most of the Moroccan cities. In them are concentrated a great commercial, cultural and free activity of the population) alleys as if fraught mazes of commerces and stands, with unique colors, radiating life. Exclusives corners that is necessary to search for to discover part of this culture and a kind of so odd life. Even in the same festivity they offered us their typical foods with lots of spice, different and very suggestive flavors that are also a part of the surroundings and the culture of a fascinating country. As I understand it I think that is how a festival should be, representing an interchange with the people from out of town, carrying out a true cultural encounter across-the-board.


After the presentation, straight off the street at the old quarter of Bilbao, Ultramarinos & Colonial begins his way walking through the different stages that we will wander around for the next few months. Now it is our turn, let’s pull on stage the rhythms, melodies and all the emotions that we are capable to create: "these are our products". And I insure you that the people of Tangier…Have shopped!!!

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Published in DEIA, Jan 27, 2011

Published in DEIA, Jan 27, 2011





A place in which, not only their eyes are set on you but also energy, dreams and sensations come together. (Main auditorium)
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I often always imagine, even though I am still composing, how it will sound my music when I take it to a direct live concert that is where I like to experience it. I daydream and I make a guess how I will feel, how the public will receive it, and how the spectacle will take place. I believe that nobody escapes the temptation of trying to discover in our mind, as sighted clairvoyant, the so hoped-for future.
Thinking about it, we arrived to the Glaswegian city, in Scotland, where we present our project Beti Bizi in the prestigious Celtic music festival Celtic Connections.
Since 1993, Glasgow welcomes one of the most important worldwide festivities of Celtic music. This year, it began January 13 till the 30of this same month will close its doors, completing 18 days in which 1,500 artists will more of take part in the 300 concerts, events, talks etc… distributed in 14 stages throughout the whole city. Imagine yourselves for a moment the musical, cultural and personal explosion that all this supposes. The same day, there are a lot of concerts disseminated through the city and as a sequel to each day are the night-time jam sessions in the hotel of the festivity, where all artists that have taken part in the different events of the day meet and offer small live performance but in a intimate way, contributing still more that if it is so possible, to an amazing environment there in which one breathes.
The day of our performance arrived and everything worked wonderfully. We played in the main conference hall of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the truth is that the concert was awesome. We all have a good time as never before. The band Leioa Kantika Korala and myself lived unforgettable moments. It was all as shocking as I had imagined it while we recorded Beti Bizi in the studio, as much, that I am looking forward to feel it again and to discover once more, that if it is intense to live it in first person, more is it to share with them and with you…..

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