Basque Music Sung in the Basque Tongue

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I'm looking for Basque music that the ETA might approve of.

It would ideally be played on the Txistu and be in the more-than-enigmatic Basque language.

Or it could be music that isn't necessarily played by Basque nationals but is nonetheless sung in Basque.

One song that comes to mind is one with a lyric of "IIIII met a girl in Andorra". Does anyone know who does this song?

Any songs about the Basque sung in English would also be alright.

― Luakini Lilikoi (New Fruit), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MeaHK0X-Tww

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SJxxIhQ8gw8

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nice name Luakini. Is that a Basque name?

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I did a google search for Umpah-Pah, a great Basque rock band of the early '90s (best album I know of: Bordell, BMG France, c. 1994), and a link to this movie, which I'd never heard of, came up:

http://www.vilaweb.cat/www/diariescola/noticia?id=1856136

More on Umpah-Pah, though translation may needed:

http://www.botiboti.org/grupsweb/umpahpah.htm

― xhuxk (xheddy), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Haizea - s/t, Hontz Gaua
Izuakaitz - s/t
Itoiz - s/t, Ezekiel
Errobi - s/t, Otsoa Dantzan
Lisker - s/t

all fantastic albums of progressive/"acid" folk. some of my favorite music ever. i love the innate lilt of the Basque language. only wish i knew what they were singing about, but it all seems more personal than political. could be love songs as metaphor.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I liked an album by these guys in the early '90s too:

http://www.laxnbusto.com/

― xhuxk (xheddy), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Izukaitz. one 'a'

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

FFS, more corrections. Otsoa Dantzan is Izukaitz's second album; the second Errobi album is Ametsaren Bidea. also great.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

This was the result of a search for "euskadi music" on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgteFLw9plw

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Luakini is the Hawaiian for "temple of human sacrifice".

I am Part Basque.
Of the Vizcarra family

― Luakini Lilikoi (New Fruit), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I *knew* that would be Elvis Telecom's choice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

whoa, Ghost Bear, any leads on tracking those records down? I'm very intrigued.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

All of Chuck's suggestions are Catalan :(

― Dan Barramouss (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I second Ezekiel by the band Itoiz and suggest that you search the song Lau Teilatu by said band.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Search: Kortatu, excellent 80s punk band.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

all those Itoiz and Errobi albums are $30-40 new, maybe I'll try one for a self-Xmas present next month.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Search: Mikel Laboa - Bat-Hiru
Sounds a little like trova (Silvio Rodriguez)

― Nabozo, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 10:38 (two years ago)

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