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Title:  Euskal Interpretatzaile Berriak Artist:  Mattin, Tzesne, Inigo Telletxea, Edorta Izarzugaza, Xabier Erkizia - Compilation Label:  Antifrost Format:  CD Price:  € 14.50   Mp3 samples:   1

Title Description:
a compilation featuring the new generation of Basque country experimentalists. Known figures for those who have been following Antifrost such as: Xabier Erkizia and Mattin (both with releases on the label) and also new artists such as Tzesne, Inigo Telletxea and Edorta Izarzugaza. It is almost a coast to coast trip on the Basque Country: from Getxo> Bermeo> Errenteria> Bera> to Lesaka.

By reading the title it becomes obvious that this is a compilation of works by Basque sound artists raising a straightforward compositional guerilla against the commonplaces of "established" electroacoustic music. The record opens and ends with two "famous" names: Xabier Erkizia, his "Eskubete" a piercing attack to silence through minimal distorted frequencies, and Mattin, whose "Death to R'n'R" is a short punkish defragmentation of vinyl albums ending in a mess of white-noise saturation. But even more interesting are the tracks by Inigo Telletxea ("Untitled 1") Tzesne ("Elementos acustizado") and Edorta Izarzugaza ("Konpozizio objetiboa"), three soundscapes showing an alchemist-like will of intelligent investigation of aural memory, each one full of introspective textural dimensions, metastatic decompositions of shortwave abstract logic, hidden expansions like in a subdural hematoma. Here we can find the basics of what, in a not too distant future, could be labeled the "Basque school of individualist post-industrialism"...Just kidding folks - the music is so good, it speak for itself; give these guys a try and you won't be disappointed. Massimo Ricci

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