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When you no longer care about what they will say

Lirycs: Unai Iturriaga
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

When you no longer care about what they will say
When you tell yourself that this is your century
That´s when the little angel plays the flute and the devil the djembé
And life is so beautiful that even the people are wonderful
When you feel sure that you don´t even need your […]

Us and our selfs

Lirycs: Igor Elortza & Unai Iturriaga
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

As I pull up the blind, it´s dawn in the kitchen
what do we leave behind when we look ahead?
What do we leave behind when pulling up the blind
The coffee is bitter and the jam is sweet
A man has killed his wife and his daughter…
His wife and […]

Punches

Lirycs: Igor Elortza & Unai Iturriaga
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

We are not what we dreamt we would be one day, between beers
but at least we are here and that alone is something
in this small, authentic, friendly fucking country,
singing verses to the great and small pleasures and to its pain.
But we like losing our heads, friend
Why […]

I’m giving it up

Lirycs: Igor Elortza
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

Thanks for caring; I´m not in a good mood
I have never acknowledged this in public out of shyness
but I might still be in time if you hold out your hand
Like many of you I am also addicted to politics
I hardly leave the house, as I am under treatment:
no television, […]

In the tavern of history

Lirycs: Igor Elortza
Translation: Rita Murphy

Although to some it may seem the complete opposite (even a sacrilige), this collage of verses and popular songs in Basque would like to pay homage to all those who are anonymous or well-known:bertsolaris, song writers, singer-songwriters and music groups and who have been shaping the imaginary Basque speaker throughout the […]

When did it all begin?

Lirycs: Unai Iturriaga
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

When did it all begin? In the distant stardust ?
When Kubrick made the bone rotate?
With a tear from Bilintx in the Urmea?
With the child that I was?
At ground zero in New York?
Maybe it was in your sitting-room?  In my humble bedroom?
Perhaps it began when I told you that it […]

Two paths

Lirycs: Igor Elortza
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

Sometimes the heart darkens
as if the end of the world had arrived
Counting flies in home-sweet-home
who wouldn´t want to fly?
Before everything was easier, and more beautiful
the days, the nights and all of that
Awakening among the waste
it´s hard to open your eyes
Who are we and what happened to our dream?
For those […]

Dr. JEIKI & Mr. JAI

Lirycs: Unai Iturriaga & Igor Elortza
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

This piece derives from the phonetic similarity between the terms “Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde” and the pun in Basque “Doctor Jeiki and Mister Jai” (which means more or less Doctor Wake Up and Mister Party).  With Robert Louis Stevenson´s story and its characters as a […]

The war of the methaphors

Lirycs: Igor Elortza
Music: Josu Zabala
Translation: Rita Murphy

Reality is often just a fiction shared
but the war of metaphors is rarely fought
To be a master of words
is the most fulminating of weapons
What is, for example, desire and the will of the majority?
Isn´t it about the desperation of the minority?
What will happen to states ruled by law and […]