01/10/05
17th Anniversary of the Azken Guda Dantza of Kortatu
Communication 027

Hi!
Even if I was absent from the sunlights, I am still very much so engaged. Here is some information about my last engagements:

1. COLLABORATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS: I will be taking part with the trikitilari Xabi Solano and the trombonist Jon Elizalde under the scene name of Fermin Muguruza Trio Akustikoa on the October, 22nd in memory of the inimitable Laurel Aitken, that unfortunately won’t be with us. Moreover, I will also take part in two other concerts. The first one will take place on October 8th during the festival at Gazteiz (Vitoria) to the benefit of the Gaztetxe and for which I will be playing a part with Juan SA during the concert of the band Betagarri. The second concert will take place in Berlin and is organised by my friend Mauro. I will also be contributing to a few songs of the band Banda Bassotti. I wish once more to thank you all for all your invitations that I regularly receive and especially the one from friends of the Casa Babylon of Cuenca for their tenth anniversary. I would like also point out that they will not be anymore collaborations as the ones mentioned above until my new album is released next year..

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2. Negu Gorriak: We are carrying on our work linked to this project and I can already tell you that they will be a new added feature to the DVD, which will be an extra CD. It’s a live CD that was recorded during the concert “Negu Gorriak, geurea da garaipena” that took place in 2001 on the Saturday at the cycletrack of Anoeta. The members of Negu Gorriak have decided, after looking into the live album “Hipokrisiari stop” as a reference; we chose 15 songs already released in 1994: Ez dut ezer esan nahi, Hitz egin, Bost gehiago, Hiri gerrilaren dantza, Itxafero mekanikoa, Zipaioen matxinada, Nire baitan daude biak, Ideien kontrabandoa, Ez dezagun sal, Song number one, Kaixo, Errespetua, Begirunea, Aizu eta NG geurea da garaipena. This project will be released on December 1st. I will tell you more about the details of this CD in the next communication. .

3. Sorkun, The Solanos. This autumn, two new albums that I think of as very interesting, will be released. As well as having followed up the development of those two albums they have been made by musicians that were on tour with me. The first and new album is the one of Sorkun, “Duna”, which is already available. Furthermore, in this album, you can catch back with two other musicians from the Kontrabanda: the bassist Atxus, the tour technical help on “Komunikazioa Tour” and Igor Ruiz “Fino” that is joining the band with his sax for the live performances of the band Sorkun. The second album is the project of the trikitilari Xabi Solano: The Solanos. In the band we have the pleasure to meet up again with for instance Oskar Benas, former guitarist of Dub Manifest and Sergio, drummer of Joxe Ripiau.

4. FASCISTS: The verdict pronounced against the fascists that placed a bomb at a concert (pretending that Fermin Muguruza should have taken part) is out. Six years of jail for each of them. They have been accused of terrorism even though they were not under prosecution by the Audiencia Nacional de Madrid. I would just like to point out, backed up by the news links underneath, the double standard of the political class. Santiago Royuela, son of the auctioneer and former guard of Franco, Alberto Royuela, has been candidate for the European elections in the list lead by Sáez de Yniestrillas, accused of the murder of Josu Muguruza. Taking into account those information don’t we deserve, as much me as all the people that came or are coming to my concerts, the same solidarity gestures that any other artist, musician, writer or journalist would have received in a similar situation? Why is it that makes the media next to totally silent about this information?

- Berria (eusk)
- El Periodico de Catalunya (Cat)
- El Periodico de Catalunya (Esp)

See you soon!
Fermin Muguruza