AmetsOLAK, by Jabi Alonso

AmetsOLAK

by Jabi Alonso

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1.	Enbor jauzia 00:25	buy track
2.	Ez da galduko 02:30	buy track
3.	Euskal oholak 05:32	buy track
4.	To the gods of rhythm 04:01	buy track
5.	Composition in blue grey and pink 04:42	buy track
6.	Holandarrak 05:17	buy track
7.	Aizkorak 00:51	buy track
8.	Amalurrari 09:51	buy track
9.	Txalaparting 02:52	buy track
10.	La Tía Gora 10:19	buy track
11.	Desfaseak 04:47	buy track
12.	Rosarena 02:47	buy track

about

This is something that was on my mind some years ago and it has finally become true, a dream (Amets) with a single sound, wood (OLAK). I could not start talking about the music included in this CD without mentioning a great musician, txistulari, txuntxunero, danborrero, composer and a good friend, Sabin Bikandi. In 2012 we both started a project which arised from the concern of working with the sound possibilities of a single sound material, wood. Using Sabin’s own words, we can say that “the chosen material determines the creative process to the artist (sculptor, architect...), at the same time being an important source of inspiration”. From this point I use txalaparta and some other wooden instruments applying modern and different aesthetic points of view, construction-deconstruction of phrases, phasing, rhythmic modulations, native rhythms (Basque, Balkan ...).

The txalaparta, an instrument of unknown origin, simple in its structure (a piece of wood struck by another piece of wood) but of great sound power, will be the rider sound of this CD. AmetsOLAK tries to bring a new vision and a new repertoire to a very representative instrument of Basque culture such as the Txalaparta, expanding its sound possibilities.

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released September 16, 2019

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Ensemble Sinkro is a contemporary music ensemble based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, which has had its home in the ‘Jesús Guridi’ Music Conservatory since 1985, when it was founded with Juanjo Mena as its first director.

Ensemble Sinkro is a group that specialises in the realm of new technologies used in modern musical creation. ... more

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