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Records of the Chango, 1999	year  all 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Brigadistak Sound System

 Artist: Fermin Muguruza

 Main contributions:

· Radici nel Cemento

· Mad Professor

· Desorden Público

· Fidel Nadal

· Manu Chao

· Hechos Contra el Decoro

· Amparanoïa

 Release year: 1999

 Label: Esan Ozenki

 Type: Album

 Track list:

01 Urrun
02 Hitza har dezagun
03 Newroz
04 Puzka
05 Harria
06 Lagun nazakezu
07 Eguraldi lainotsua hiriburuan
08 Maputxe
09 Brigadistak
10 Oasiko erregina
11 54-46
12 Ari du hotza
13 Nazio ibiltaria naiz
14 Urrun Dub

I've travelled a lot and wherever I go I find traces of Fermin. Sometimes it was the name of one of his groups furiously graffitied on the wall, at other times it was an echo of rebellion from one of his songs and at others, just a pure roar. But, almost always it was that multiple mark left by the music, by the ideology therein or even by the person who wrote it. In Mexico I found ska groups who blamed everything on Kortatu (who were Laurel Aitken, The Specials, The Skatelites or Desmond Dekker?). In Paris I saw the `X´ made by those crossed hatchets on the gear and, more importantly, in the mind! - of a great band, now clandestine. In Cuba I perceived the importance of Fermin`s last visit with Dut, the importance for the rock of many who owe more to the teachings of Che than to those of the Stones.
I could talk of traces in The USA, in Venezuela or in Argentina: Everywhere I found CD's by Kortatu, Negu Gorriak, Fermín Muguruza eta Dut or just by Fermín himself, and everywhere I found people who believed in them. They were people who, more often than not, talked of changing things, of revolution, of justice, of fighting back. Hardly any knew more than a couple of words or expressions in Basque and this didn't really surprise me: there is no other way out except to understand that which encapsulates the truth. Every one of us can be and - this is how it feels &endash; everyone should be internationalist, at the same time, fighting for their own culture. This is exactly what "Brigadistak sound system" is all about, from head to toe, >from north to south, from east to west. One fine day the links of understanding between Irun and the world were forged and today we can see the fruit of that work

Fermin has also travelled a lot and has made many friends with his music. And, precisely with the help of all of these, he has now brought out a disc that reflects internationalism and which sounds like a trip around the world with stops in Paris, Havana, Caracas, Rome, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Biarritz, London and Azkarate.

The vehicle: reggae, >from its primary roots to its contemporary evolved state -jungle- with the obligatory ska revelries, demands set in a ragga context, even a dub by the numero uno Mad Professor on the theme that opens and closes the CD, Urrun. Fermin starts up with some Italian brothers from the Banda Bassotti and continues with the crashing metal of Desorden Público (the best ska in Latin America) and joins up with vocals from Angelo Moore (Fishbone). Xabi Pery and Tom Darnal (the legend behind P18) programmed the whole thing. Tijuana No and Aztlan Underground gave their different visions of the same energetic, hard and fast musical frontier. The vision of a great friend lost in the century, Manu Chao. The vibrance of Amparanoia. The vigour of the Hechos Contra el Decoro. Inadaptats and Parabellum. And as always, of course, the fellow-travellers of Iñigo Muguruza and Kaki Arkarazo (the engineer for the greater part of the disc). And the wind and percussion instruments of the timbera brigade &endash; the legendary Van Van! And the dub-connection of Todos Tus Muertos/Lumumba. And the ragga of Spartak Dub International. A never-ending list of friends and soul-buddies whose name forms an essential part of that furious graffiti, of that rebellious echo, of that roar which provides the blast that may shatter the speakers of the Brigadistak Sound System.Let it roar!

Bruno Galindo. Madrid, mayo 1999

 Records: Fermin Muguruza

 Main contributions: Fermin Muguruza

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