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Written in fRoots issue 189, 1999


VARIOUS ARTISTS
Trikitixa!
Triki-Elkarlanean KD-493 (1998)

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Rockin’ Trikitixa
Triki-Elkarlanean KD-494 (1998)

Rather brief (45 minute) mid-price samplers from the biggest Euskal (Basque) label, the first containing trikitixa in its more traditional form, mostly just the melodeon and panderoa (tambourine) and including the older generation and young progressives Kepa and Tapia & Leturia. Rockin’ Trikitixa has items from the latter duo’s rockier projects, plus other emerging triki-pop.


VARIOUS ARTISTS
Voices of Euskadi
Elkarlanean KD-495 (1998)

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Basque Music - The Sampler!
Elkarlanean KD-496 (1998)

More mid-price 45-minute Elkarlanean samplers; the first has such as the fine Jean Mixel Bedaxagar, Mikel Laboa, Amaia Zubiria & Txomin Artola, Benito Lertxundi, Oskorri, Jabier Muguruza, the second several of the same, plus Tapia & Leturia, Kepa (with Portugal’s Julio Pereira and also with alboka player Ibon Koteron), Ganbara et al.
     

© 1999 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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