Oskorri
| Oskorri | |
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 Oskorri after a concert in Bilbao on August 21, 2008 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Bilbao , Spain |
| Genre (s) | Folk |
| founding | 1971 |
| Website | www.oskorri.com |
| Founding members | |
| Natxo de Felipe | |
| Current occupation | |
| Natxo de Felipe | |
Acoustic guitar , vocals |
Antón Latxa (since the 1970s) |
Electric guitar , vocals |
Bixente Martinez (since the 1970s) |
Violin , singing |
Xabier Zeberio |
| Gorka Escauriaza | |
percussion |
Íñigo Egia |
| Joshua Salbide | |
| former members | |
| Iker Goenaga | |
Trikitixa |
Kepa Junkera |
| Fran Lasúen | |
| Txarli de Pablo | |
| Jose Urrejola | |
Oskorri ( Basque for sunset) is a Basque folk band around the band leader Natxo de Felipe , which was founded in 1971 and is dedicated to cultivating Basque culture. Their music combines traditional Basque and modern instruments and influences.
Band history
The beginnings (1971–1974)
The Bilbaine ensemble was created in the early 1970s, at the time of the Basque cultural movement Ez Dok Amairu , which was founded around 1965, mainly in the cities of the Basque Country and was directed against the suppression of the Basque language and culture by the Franco regime . The movement manifested itself musically through a collective of musicians and songwriters (such as Mikel Laboa ) who promoted the use of the Basque language through concerts. The founders of Oskorri came from the environment of this movement. The band gave their first concert in March 1971 - at the time as a quartet, with band leader Natxo de Felipe as the only founding member still belonging to the band - at the Universidad de Deusto . Due to their urban background, however, they were more familiar with the pop and rock music of the time than with traditional Basque music. This was still reflected in the band's first songs, which were already sung in Basque. However, the musicians soon began to be enthusiastic about traditional Basque instruments, songs and literature and processed these influences in subsequent compositions in which they mixed traditional and modern musical elements.
Her first records (1975-1980)
With the end of the Franco regime in the mid-1970s, the band opened up new opportunities to present their music to a wider audience. In addition, they managed to get a record deal with CBS and finally to record the song repertoire that Oskorri had already tried out successfully at live concerts for some time. When the first recordings were made in 1975, the guitarists Bixente Martinez and Antón Latxa were part of the band, who are still part of the line-up today and have since shaped the band's style together with singer Natxo de Felipe. The first publications revealed strong references to Basque literature. After two singles, their first album Gabriel Arestiren Oroimenez was released in 1976 , a homage to the author Gabriel Aresti , who died in 1975 and who is considered an important representative of Basque literature of the 20th century. The ten pieces on this LP are based in part on Aresti's poems. For the second album Mosen Bernat Etxepare 1545 from 1977, Basque literature was again used as inspiration. Instead of a contemporary work, this time some traditional dances were arranged. The focus of the album, however, were settings of the poems by Bernat Etxepares , the author of the first known literary work in Basque language entitled Linguæ Vasconum Primitiæ from 1545. This album was musically different from its predecessor. It is considered more serious and complex than the lighter and happier-looking debut album.
In spring 1978 the band embarked on their first European tour, including performances in Germany, Switzerland and France.
The 1980s
In the 1980s, new members joined the core of the band, which continued to consist of de Felipe, Martinez and Latxa, who contributed their ideas, such as the Trikitixa player Kepa Junkera, who later became a successful solo artist . Oskorri gained greater fame in Central Europe in the mid-1980s when the West German Folk Freak label released a record called Music from the Basque Country in 1984. The record basically contained no new material, but a compilation of the band's most popular songs, however newly recorded and partly in new versions. Convinced by good sales results, Elkar, the band's Basque record company, took over this production and released it on the domestic market in the same year under the title Alemanian euskaraz .
Music for children
Oskorri recorded two CDs especially for children, which were presented in elaborate shows with the participation of the theater group Kukubiltxo , and which were later also released as DVDs. For Katuen Testamentua (1993, Elkar), old, almost forgotten, children's songs from the Biskayaraum were recorded, Marijane Kanta Zan! (1997, Elkar), on the other hand, was dedicated to the work of the Navarre- born writer Marijane Minaberry, who wrote a number of well-known children's poems in the Basque language in the 1960s, which now served as the basis for a number of modern children's songs.
Discography
Albums (selection)
The band has released over 30 musical albums during its existence, including several double albums.
- Gabriel Arestiren Oroimenez (1976, CBS )
- Mosen Bernat Etxepare 1545 (1977, CBS)
- Oskorri (1979)
- Plazarik plaza (1980)
- ... eta Oskorri sortu zen (1981)
- Adio Kattalina (1982)
- Music from the Basque Country (1984, Folk Freak; published as Alemanian euskaraz by Elkar later that year)
- Hermosuria (1984)
- In fraganti (1986)
- Hamabost urte ... eta gero hau (1987)
- Datorrena datorrela (1989)
- Hi ere dantzari (1991)
- Badok hamairu (1992)
- Landalan (1992)
- 25 kantu-urte (1996)
- Ura (2000)
- Vizcayatik ... Bizkaiara (2001)
- Desertore (2003)
- Banda Band (2007, Elkar)
The long-playing records from the first few years have since been re-released several times as CDs by the Basque company Elkar .
Web links
- Oskorri website (Basque, English, Spanish, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hiru.com/es/musika/erreportaiadidaktikoak/316860 Article on hiru.com about the Ez Dok Amairu movement (Spanish) from 2008
- ↑ http://www.folkworld.de/21/e/oskorri.html
- ↑ http://www.badok.info/diskoa.php?id_disko=3&id_artista=1 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.elkarlanean.com/musika/default.cfm?atala=artikulua_ikusi&hizkuntza=4&id_produktua=G81.EC221
- ↑ http://www.basqueliterature.com/es/basque/historia/hauretagazte Information on Marijane Minaberry's work on basqueliterature.com (Spanish)
