ANONYME POPULAR

Audiovisual bertsoak, written for the present time.

 

In Basque the relationship between song and bertsolaritza, the making of bertsoak, is ingrained. In what was until very recently an oral culture, there are countless bertsoak and countless popular, anonymous songs.

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Anonyme Popular is one more proposal in bertsolaritza and Basque music, and here is proposing audiovisual bertsoak –like the bertsoak that in the past have been printed on paper, recorded on tape, or set to live music. In addition to the words, which speak of these times and the social climate we live in, it offers modern melodies and sounds.

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More info HERE.

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Igor Elortza (Durango, August 18, 1975) is a Basque Bertsolari, writer and musician who was born in Durango into a working family where his father was a turner and his mother a Basque teacher. Since he was little he began to study the art of verse at the bertso-eskola of the Kurutziaga school under the guidance of Jon Lopategi and Santi Belarra. After notable performances at school, at a very young age he began to sing in the squares alongside adults. Since 1991 he has not stopped singing in the squares with a multitude of colleagues from different generations. In addition to the practice of bertsolarismo, he has touched other artistic disciplines such as music, theater, television scripts, youth literature, advertising and a long etcetera. He has also been the creator of different music to use when singing the verses. He has been part of more than 200 sessions in plazas and championships, where he has been lucky enough to be awarded the champion's txapela in 5 Bizkaia verse championships, in addition, she has reached the national verse final on 4 occasions. He has been part of the management of the Plateruena café theater in Durango as well as an active member of the Bertsozale Elkartea association. He has worked on countless projects related to the arts and the promotion of Basque.

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Rafa Rueda (Mungia, 1972) is a Basque singer and guitarist. He was also the singer of Broken Bihotz and Pi L.T.

He became known as the singer and guitarist of the group PI L.T. in the 1990s, especially thanks to his hit song Hil da jainkoa, but in recent years, after leaving metal music aside, he has developed a solo career linked to pop-rock. In parallel with his extensive musical career, as a producer he has worked with singers and groups such as Petti, Txuma Murugarren, Anje Duhalde, Jon Enbeita or Kokein. He has also made theatrical works such as the popular operetta Lauaxeta (Maskarada, 2005), Otehitzari biriraka -with Mikel Urdangarin and Bingen Mendizabal- (Kukai-Tanttaka, 2006), Ohean (Maskarada, 2008) and Antártikako Lorea (Erre Produkzioak, 2010). . Likewise, within the framework of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika, Rueda was in charge of the musical part of the hemen gaude show. In 2017 he composed the music for Lua Kastore (Ma collective) in collaboration with Aritz Aranburu and in 2021 he created the soundtrack for the fiction podcast Artxipielagoa (Ulu media), also in collaboration with Aritz Aranburu.

He is currently a member of the ZART creator collective along with Harkaitz Cano, Elizabeth Macklin, Alain Urrutia, Oier Aranzabal and Mikel Urdangarin.

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