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Xabier Iriondo

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About Me

Xabier Iriondo born in the Isola area in Milan (Italy) in the early seventies from basque father and italian mother. At the age of seventeen he began to amuse himself with an electric guitar and he still does now.Between 1992 and 2001 he made 5 albums and hundreds of concerts with the pop/rock band Afterhours, 3 albums with the indie/rock band Six Minute War Madness and 3 albums + 2 miniCDs with the A Short Apnea project.In 2005 he opens in Milan SOUND METAK, a vintage/collector instruments and musical objects shop where he organize concerts/performances.In these times he's involved as guitarist/sound manipulator in the projects Uncode Duello, Polvere, Tasaday, etcXabier Iriondo has played live around Europe and Japan and collaborated (live and studio) with the following bands as musicians: Damo Suzuki, ZU, Rhys Chatham, Sinistri, Wu Fei, Gianni Gebbia, Steve Piccolo, Carla Bozulich, Eraldo Bernocchi, Cristiano Calcagnile, Bruno Dorella, Elio Martuscello, Vincenzo Vasi, Alberto Morelli, Gianni Mimmo, Verdena, Simone Massaron, Gak Sato, Franceco Cusa, Mirko Sabatini, Juan Mordecai, aka_Bondage, Cristina Donà, Stefano Giust, Angelo Contini, Stefania Pedretti, Massimo Falascone, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Diego Sapignoli, Olivier Manchion, Renato Ciunfrini, Claudio Rocchetti, Christian Alati, Andrea Belfi, Madame P, Nicola Ratti, Antonio Gramentieri and many others.YOUR VERY EYES at Clusone Jazz Festival '08
SOLO at S.Aquilino Chapel

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/3/2006
Band Website: xabieririondo.com
Band Members: myself with different people in every project.
Influences: Luigi Russolo, Neu!, Fred Frith, Edgar Varese, This Heat, John Cage, Henry Cow, Dock Boggs, Captain Beefheart, Yannis Xenakis, Can, John Fahey, Olivier Messiaen, Miles Davis, MC5, Robert Wyatt, Kortatu, Charlie Patton, The Residents, Tim Buckley, Suicide, Bruce Springsteen, Pop Group, Nick Drake, Pere Ubu, Eritrean and Mali music, Egon Schiele, Cipri e Maresco, Quay Brothers, Tod Browning, Werner Herzog, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Guy Maddin, Orson Welles, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gian Maria Volonte ...... too many to mention
Sounds Like:

Record Label: www.wallacerecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

30 albums that changed my life

Captain Beefheart ..Trout Mask Replica..Area ..Maledetti..No New York ..s/t..The Who ..Quadrophenia..Wire ..154..Ritmo Tribale ..Kriminale..Miles Davis ..Bitches Brew..Negazione ..Lo spirito continua....
Posted by Xabier Iriondo on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:26:00 PST

Xabier Iriondo's DISCOGRAPHY

1993 AFTERHOURS ..pop kills your soul.. - CD - Vox Pop1993 SIX MINUTE WAR MADNESS ..faces vol.2 compilation.. - CD .. FaceRecords1993 SIX MINUTE WAR MADNESS ..lubrican for your mind compilation.. - CD...
Posted by Xabier Iriondo on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:24:00 PST