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Gaby Jogeix, guitar player from France and Basque Country, has needed five year to record his third record: hermosa Beach. He has recorded in Los Angeles and Kirk Fletcher (The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Charles Musselwhite) was the producer.

Hear: Shake, Shake

Hiru (Three) is the third disc as a leader Mikel Andonegi firm and the first in a trio format recording acoustic jazz. As in all his projects, part of the tradition, or the different traditions of black music to try to create something new, it looks backward to line up the future.

Entzun: Colonel Parker

Has  passed eight year since Johnny Cash died and is the first tribute album  that somebody done from the basque country. Twenty music groups have been meeting to play again the songs of  this men in black. Bye, Bai, Cash.

Hear: Zarama ( Jon & Johnny Cash )

After forming and participating in bands like Jotakie and Dirección Obligatoria, a few years later the Gipuzkoa-born musician PATTA has gone on to form the band SENDAEZINAK (The Incurables), with Luka on base. Their première disc is due to be released next week.

Hear: Aspertuta

In the next days Suzette Moncrief American singer will be in the basque country to doing a little review of she´s songs playlist in Zornotza, Basauri, Leioa and Ermua. In addition of a full blues band, with her will come Nico Wayne Toussaint Harmonic player from France and Tonky de la Peña guitar player from Spain. Incredible opportunity to have a good time with the music.

Promenade,  nineth record of Joaquin Chacon like leader. The guitar player has wrote six very good songs. For this work joaquin has got two incredibles artist: Gonzalo Tejada ( Double bass ) and jo Krause ( Drums ). Buy the cd here.

Like a all young musicians, Ruben Salvador and his friends don´t put their music in a specific style and because of that they takes influences to a lot of styles, bands and rhythms. STARTING! Is the album of Rs Faktor.

 Listen: Nire Lagunentzat

 They are presenting their third record, Preaching. Was recorded like the old style, is say,  playing all together  to insert the  power  and feelings of the direct. In this album they have introduced their three influences: Californian blues, rockabilly and  the swing.

Listen: Bilbao LA

Moondogs Blues party are presenting their second album with Thirty Roads tittle. You can buy it here. Hear The Devil is on the roof.

La espiral amarilla is the title of the second album of Marta Sanchez pianist of Madrid. The trio expanded to a quartet is new compared to the previous "Lunas, Soles and Elephants", and greatly benefits their music. Marta reveals here one of the most interesting aspects of his personality: his way to accompany, always creative and stimulating. One of the most impressive things is the rapport between the group members.

Have passed 100 years since that the bluesman Roberts Johnson born, and the basque musician Markos Untzeta  public his third album, Mississippi. The title is clear about where we can travel with his songs: an interesting journey to the lands of blues, gospel and country, which begins at the legendary crossroads. You can listen and buy the cd here.

Guitarist Alex Caporuscio follows the path was traced by masters like Albert Collins, Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan, to name a few. The sounds you hear in the interpretation of their songs are granite, full of energy. The basis of his repertoire are compositions of great taste, and versions, covering styles ranging from Blues to Progressive Rock, through the Funk or Texas hard boogie like ZZ Top. New album available

The new reference of Bloody Hotsak is luxury!. Starting with the bands: first Los Coronas, who daily make big steps treading new scenaries and showing, how they can do good instrumental rock and roll  with some instruments in the hands, Giving back to vinyl we reconvened with the Hi Risers, this trio can cheer your day with a song. Elegant EP now available.

Listen FLAMENCO:

A declaration of intent as the title of the third CD of Bluedays, TARTARUGA, the second at study, probably to his confirmation, where we will hear how their sound has been settled in the ways of Texas Blues, but also in Memphis black Soul  or Chicago blues. We even have Latino passages and air borders, music has always played well in their sweaty gigs.

KOKEIN will travel to Japan in March-April to publicize their music. The quintet from Eibar formed in 1999, will have the opportunity to relocate their direct overseas after editing 3 discs with Gaztelupeko Hotsak and offer plenty of concerts. On this tour, will be 6 concerts, playing songs of their published discs with some new composition and share the stage with groups that have previously touched on his visit to Euskal Herria as Tayuta and Brahman in places like Tokyo, Toyota and Nagoya.

When finished this small tour in Japan will continue to work with the composition of new material for their next record.

Take a handful of jazz standards - works of Ellington and George Gershwin-, season with a pair of infallible "popular classics" as Roxanne (The Police) or Do not you worry about a thing (Stevie Wonder) - and all rounded off with a piece in key of Bossa -Samba Do Novo Amor "and a beautiful composition of Aita Donostia-Oinazez-to round out its international flavor. The result: an exotic dish that will surprise diners who like the delicate flavors.

Special disc recorded at the Coliseum theater Eibar (Gipuzkoa) from the hand of the pianist Mikel Gaztelurrutia.

Bide Ertzean returns to the stages this month. In this mini-tour will act as a quartet the Ubeda brothers, the guitarist Fran Iturbe and the drummer Karlos Aranzegi. At the last fair of Durango published Leidor Sessions, first live CD-DVD of the band of Tolosa. They are now working on a new album. In these concerts announced for the second half of March will provide unpublished material.

Most Adi Holden Quartet members come from the punk-rock band Cool Panic. Pop-rock, noise and post-rock are just labels, but when we have to name a few bands that influenced Adi Holden, we can appoint Cancer Moon, Ama Say , Ironic Cancer Phobia, Screamin Trees, Sonic Youth and others .

In the last edition of the contest Danbaka were made with the award for best band in the Alto Deba (Gipuzkoa), and this album is the result.

Under the name of Funky Tortillas, and while we wait for their new work, here we have a CD with new, original themes by musicians who will become well-known by blues fans.

With the extraordinary collaboration of Los Reyes del KO, called by some, the European Junior Wells and Buddy Guy – meaning Marcos Coll on the harmonica and Adrián Costa, voice and guitar – accompanied by, on the one hand, an electric band and on the other, by Tino González, the Chicano bluesman, known most recently for his albums on the French label, Dixiefrog. A total of ten tracks where the listener can hear variations of the most traditional R&B with a Latin groove. Another sign that the blues has no geographic or cultural limitations. CD distributed in Europe

in 2003, Mikel  Andonegi started developing his most important project,  Poetic Babies, with the crucial help of John Roggie.

The newly published Record Adding Strangeness to your sense of beauty since 1998  is a mixture of traditions and different genres of music heard along the way as an artist.

In the future, Mikel Andonegi has a strong intention to continue on both fronts: a jazz pianist as well as with musical mix of “Poetic Babies” – stitching together the sounds and words of soul, hip-hop, jazz and techno.

It’s all clear in this CD.