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FERMIN MUGURUZA&AFRO-BASQUE FIRE BRIGADE TALKA TOUR 2007He is back on stage. The awesome stage performer who has used activity and creation as a way of life, as starting point to evolve, comes back after three years without live concerts. Three long years have passed since his last concert during Bilbao Fiestas where 30.000 people assisted, giving an end to two years of unstopped tours: at the beginning with Manu Chao and his Radio Bemba during the world famous “Jai Alai Katumbi Express” tour in 2003 and then with Kontrabanda during “Komunikazioa Tour” in 2004. He announced then that it was his last tour, as he wanted to explore new performance formats and that is how he started performing, semi-clandestinely, under names as DJ Laia, Kontrakantxa FM, FM Trio akustikoa or Basque FIRE Department. Nevertheless, after “Euskal Herria Jamaika Clash” album release in 2006, which was internationally acclaimed and recorded in Tuff Gong and Big Yard studios in Kingston, Jamaica, Muguruza gathered different musicians from Basque Country and Jamaica so as to present his album on November 11th 2006 in BEC in Barakaldo in front of 12.000 people who celebrated his involvement and coherence. After this festival, he feels the need to intervene in actual reality, giving all the power of his band while performing in a tour, which will start in April and finish in August 2007. Fermin Muguruza comes back with this Talka Tour 2007 and a new band called AFRO-BASQUE FIRE BRIGADE, with his usual activists-collaborators (drums by Mikel Abrego, chorus by Sorkun, DJ DZ, Trikitixa by Xabi Solano, guitar by Oskar Benas and wind instrument section with trombone by Jon Elizalde, saxophone by Fino and trumpet by Lonbi) and other musicians who will join the band as Victor Navarrete at bass and Leo Rodriguez at percussions from Cuba, Franklin “Bubbler” Waul, musician of the famous Black Uhuru band, at keyboards and Stephanie Wallace, backing vocal of Anthony B at chorus from Jamaica. Thirteen musicians on stage, live, showing their Talka -shock, meeting, fight- Tour, playing, modifying and claiming Muguruza’s large repertory (Muguruza celebrates his 25 years in music) from the essential Kortatu, the Negu Gorriak reference to his numerous albums in different directions nowadays. The public figure, the generator of opinion, the musician with a great variety of music styles and in constant turmoil, able to extract from himself all his possibilities and to channel them the cleverest way, comes back with his communicating and inimitable stage presence with an unique band. We do not know how long we will have to wait after this 2007 tour. This is the reason why we will have an urgent appointment with the TALKA TOUR 2007 in any of its stops when we hear Fermin Muguruza&Afro-Basque Fire Brigade’ call.Amaia Apaolaza (Communication Dept. Talka Tour 007) Black myspace layout
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Member Since: 11/13/2006
Band Website: muguruzafm.com
Band Members: FERMÍN MUGURUZA: “EUSKAL HERRIA JAMAIKA CLASH” “En la pared del servicio un graffiti, recién hecho, “Salir del ghetto, organizar el odio”, me recordaba la rabia que le debemos a esta sociedad. Sin embargo, yo también estaba a gusto, saboreando nuestra Banda Sonora Original: RAICES, ROCK, RAP, REGGAE”.Esta frase pertenece a la canción “B.S.O.” del disco “Gure Jarrera” de Negu Gorriak.Para los aficionados a la música, los de verdad, los que se dejan los dedos buscando vinilos extraños en tiendas de segunda mano, hay discos que tienen un significado especial. Ese disco lo tiene para mi por varias razones, pero una de ellas es singular: me ha servido para descubrir multitud de música. Resulta que los créditos de ese álbum estaban repletos de nombres fundamentales del rock, hardcore, funk, Hip Hop, soul, ska, música latina… una buena guía para el joven habido de descubrimientos musicales que era yo hace quince años.Pero además estaba esa canción, “B.S.O.”, con esa palabra “REGGAE” al final de estribillo. Un género al que yo nunca había hecho mucho caso y que desde entonces, lentamente, he ido degustando… de las figuras clásicas a las nuevas tendencias, de los discos de referencia jamaicanos a formaciones peninsulares de admirable factura (Basque Dub Foundation, Lone Ark o The Starlites).Hace unos años tuve la oportunidad de entrevistar a Fermín Muguruza y en unas de sus respuestas dijo: “Está claro que la base del reggae va a seguir manteniéndose firme, porque es una constante desde el primer disco de Kortatu. El reggae estará ahí en cualquiera de sus expresiones o derivaciones, que son muchas ya”. Y es cierto. Recorrer la discografía de Fermín Muguruza, y sus grupos, adelante o hacia atrás, nos lleva a toparnos con el reggae en distintas dosis, proporciones y orientaciones, pero en todos sus discos ha estado presente. Y en su etapa “en solitario”, de una forma más destacada.Ahora edita “Euskal Herria Jamaica Clash”, un eslabón coherente en su cadena de discos, donde acentúa esa proporción de reggae, mirando más que nunca a la concepción clásica del género, pero con algunos matices mestizos presentes (fuerza rock, algunas baterías Hip Hop o el sonido de la trikitixa). El álbum ha sido grabado en Jamaica y ha contado con algunas figuras de renombre de aquellas tierras: U- Roy, Luciano, Lisa Dainjah, Masta Blasta, Yacine, Toots y las I-Threes (el trío vocal femenino habitual en los discos de Bob Marley al que pertenece Rita Marley).El nuevo plástico ofrece doce temas, donde además del reggae, también se siente el optimismo ante las nuevas luces que iluminan el futuro de El País Vasco (“Euskal Herria Jamaika Clash”)… un optimismo que se entrelaza con descripciones costumbristas (“Azoka Eguna”), ánimo rebelde (“Mongolian Barbecue”, “Basque Xamuraia”, “La Fille Du Quartier Populaire”), cantos de esperanza (“Yalah Yalah Ramallah”), un fotograma de un triunfo simbólico (“Beamon Jauzia”), críticas a la alienación (“Askatasun Parabolika”), a la dictadura del imperio (“Plastic Turkey”), un corte reposado de aire poético sobre música y sentimientos (“Baxua eta Lurra”), una instrumental final (“Le Mouv Dub”) y una revisión luminosa y esperanzadora en clave reggae de una vieja canción de Kortatu (“La línea del frente”). “Euskal Herria Jamaika Clash”. La banda sonora del presente: SUEÑOS, ESPERANZA, RAÍCES, REGGAE.
Influences: muguruzafm.com A world on the netI haven’t missed the appointment. I’ve received the works. I’ve watched and listened to them once and again. And I’m left aghast. I’ve followed Fermin Muguruza’s musical career since 1985 and I’ve had the opportunity to be there in some of the moments recorded in this album. The truth is that this work has made me think and I’ve been remembering the next thoughts. Logbook We usually write our thoughts and the things we do down in a logbook. We usually write letters to the people we love. We give our opinions through broken loudspeakers so that everybody can hear us. We always want to show that we still are alive. Even if saying goodbye always hurts us, we want to think that we’ll always be on your mind. That’s a logbook. A collection made of the pieces found in an old box in a room. A sampler of forgotten songs, an anthology of the moments we’ve lived. A logbook in a box. A logbook on CD and on DVD. The world is a Heart The world seems to be as small and fast as a heart, as these images and songs show. A world where local fights become global thanks to solidarity, which is a beautiful word and a heartbeat. Each heartbeat is a movement. It’s anywhere and it doesn’t give up moving. Heartbeats. There is movement in Palestine or Sahara, in Mexico or Berlin, in Madrid or in Artozki; because our way is the opposite one. We live in that street. We can see street fights in those images and songs. We make people from Japan, San Francisco, Quebec, Barcelona and Bilbao know the Basque Country. The Movement of the Words and the Images Audiovisuals become concerts and we test new media. Songs exist for a long time. We convert songs with contemporary tools and we mix them to get new songs. And we’ll show them the same way, played by a video jockey or mixed by a disc jockey, broadcast on the radio or transmitted on the net. We live a new era with new technology. Our music hasn’t lost that train. There we are, at the front. When our videos, our concerts and our thoughts are heard, you can always see a desire to jump into the audiovisuals. Words represent movement. Images are samplers. Sound becomes the way. Movement. Brave and influential since a long time ago. The Net is the Way People who usually work on the net or who see the net as an organised world have a model in front of them. I would call this work muguruzafm.com, this unforgettable album or production that we can listen to and watch on the screen. Because this album doesn’t sum up Fermin Muguruza’s musical career, but it represents his music’s way.Patxi Gaztelumendi
Record Label: TALKA
Type of Label: Indie