txuma murrugarren and a few... myriam gartzia
truths...
"I’m just a simple songwriter. Sometimes being a songwriter is a dangerous thing because you lay your inner world out for all to see when you write a song. Writing a song is an act of sincerity. But it’s also a precious thing, because you feel unburdened once you have completed the process. Speaking your truths unburdens you even if you disguise them in whatever way. The exercise of writing a song also gives you what everybody needs: acceptance and recognition by others. Song-writing is a type of magic. Even so, writing a song doesn’t make you better than anybody else, even if the song is a good one. To write a song that sells millions of copies is no great shakes. We’re all like ants in this world, small humble creatures at the end of the day."
...and lies.
"There’s no inbreeding on the Basque music scene. All musicians are tuned into what’s going on elsewhere. We don’t really look at ourselves. It’s hard for us to hear music that’s normally done in another language in our own because we underrate the music created here. We don’t give it the recognition it deserves. We have this notion that what comes from abroad is always better that what we do ourselves. It’s always been like that. We take what others do and then do it our way. Nobody has invented anything, because everything has already been invented. That’s how we advance.
You can see it at Durango (annual Basque Book & Music Fair held in Durango). We all gather together to admire how great and productive Basque culture is, how much work is being produced in the Basque language, etc. Four days of high octane culture and then it’s off home feeling content with everything we have. But we then forget about Basque culture until the following year because we’ve coughed up our yearly tip. It’s a bit of a trap, really, a necessary one maybe because otherwise we’d sell nothing at all, but a trap nonetheless."
"I’m just a simple songwriter. Sometimes being a songwriter is a dangerous thing because you lay your inner world out for all to see when you write a song. Writing a song is an act of sincerity. But it’s also a precious thing, because you feel unburdened once you have completed the process. Speaking your truths unburdens you even if you disguise them in whatever way. The exercise of writing a song also gives you what everybody needs: acceptance and recognition by others. Song-writing is a type of magic. Even so, writing a song doesn’t make you better than anybody else, even if the song is a good one. To write a song that sells millions of copies is no great shakes. We’re all like ants in this world, small humble creatures at the end of the day."
...and lies.
"There’s no inbreeding on the Basque music scene. All musicians are tuned into what’s going on elsewhere. We don’t really look at ourselves. It’s hard for us to hear music that’s normally done in another language in our own because we underrate the music created here. We don’t give it the recognition it deserves. We have this notion that what comes from abroad is always better that what we do ourselves. It’s always been like that. We take what others do and then do it our way. Nobody has invented anything, because everything has already been invented. That’s how we advance.
You can see it at Durango (annual Basque Book & Music Fair held in Durango). We all gather together to admire how great and productive Basque culture is, how much work is being produced in the Basque language, etc. Four days of high octane culture and then it’s off home feeling content with everything we have. But we then forget about Basque culture until the following year because we’ve coughed up our yearly tip. It’s a bit of a trap, really, a necessary one maybe because otherwise we’d sell nothing at all, but a trap nonetheless."
