Archive For The “Music” Category
Christmas songs not always are boring chants about babies and fishes in the water. Actually, they used to be songs about dancing and celebrating the beginning of the new year, winter solstice. In fact, there are many songs about Christmas which preserve this celebratory spirit and invite to dance and have fun, and sometimes to think…
David Rengel tries to explain us what is a field recording, if it is music or not or why is it now more interesting to try to catch the sounds of nature (or made by humans) with a microphone than to play a guitar or a trumpet. Not that simple. Quite interesting. We have listen…
Blas Fernández is one of the best jazz drummers in the Basque Country. Is very easy to find him playing with great organist Mauri Sanchís or pianist José Luis Canal, among others, and he has recorded with the likes of Bill Evans or Dean Brown, too. But not only that. His drumming has acompanied several…
Arañas de Marte means Spiders from Mars. Spiders from Mars means David Bowie’s beginning of the 70s accompanying band. Bowie has published a new song last week, called Blackstar (a long one, for the matter). Blackstar will be the title for his 25th record, to appear next January 8. January 8 is David Bowie’s birthday….
Last week Allen Toussaint came to Bilbao, played, and then died the next day, in Madrid. We want to pay a little homage to this outstanding musician, born in New Orleans, in which town he lived the changes in black music of the last 70 years. We have listened to some of the collaborations he took part…
We have follow the thread from 1969’s King Crimson to 2007’s Porcupine tree. In between we have listened to Peter Gabriel’s first record or Talking Head’s Remain in light. All of them songs in which making Robert Fripp took part. We have followed with a petition: Mercury, the winged messengers from Gustave Holst’s suit The planets. And…
Minimalism composer Jon Anton has visited Arañas de Marte. We have had the chance to know a bit more about this musical genre, its origins as a part of the underground art music. We have talked about the great minimal music composers, namely Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Steve Reich or Terry Riley. And we…
Tonight we are back to the 97 radio waves, starting with some of the most representative labels from the underground dubstep scene, Substance Abuse, Never Say Die Rds,Badman Digital among others and of course we will also have some neuro drumand with labels like Union Recordings, Kuma Records or Paperfunk. Basati Irratsaioa, open space and…
Gloria Van Aerssen died last october 22. Gloria and her friend Carmen Santonja were Vainica Doble. Vainica Doble is one of the greatest bands in universal pop (period). Arañas de Marte love Vainica Doble and wished to pay a small tribute to their musical work and legacy. We have listened to their music, from their…
After 1970 and 1980 (Season 1), this time Arañas de Marte dedicates a whole hour to 1990. From Public Enemy and their Fight the power (Fear of a Black Planet), to Negu Gorriak and Radio Rahim (Negu Gorriak), Cancer Moon’ s Ramblin’ (Haunted by the snake) and Neil Young with Crazy Horse and their Fuckin’ up…
La banda santutxutarra de soul, funk y jazz nos visita para contarnos su historia desde los inicios, el auge de su discazo Play it again a su última entrega, en colaboración con el cantante de Akatz, The Cherry Boppers meet Dr. Baltz, aparecido a finales de 2014, con tres versiones heréticas de clásicos del soul….
We start the new season with two schizophrenic selections from Noisia. Starting with two exclusive premieres: brand new Misanthrop track on Ram Records and one of their two collabs with Xtrah off his forthcoming EP on Invisible. And of course much more killer material! We will continue with episode 17, tons of music to excite…
BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Campaign Against Israel celebrates its 10th anniversary. To celebrate it and to learn more about the situation in Palestine, we had a talk with Marcel Masferrer, activist of BDS Campaign in Catalunya. We talked about the reasons to support boycott against Israel, until it complies with the dictates of international…
El pasado lunes tuvimos la oportunidad de charlar con los componentes del trío de metal bilbotarra Horn of the Rhino. Junto con Sergio, Julen y Javier hemos repasado la historia del grupo sacó sus primeros discos bajo el nombre de Rhino y que ya tiene cinco largas duración publicados. De su último disco, Summoning deliverance,…
Hilamos desde el soul de la misteriosa Camille Yarbrough, pasando por el spoken word de Henry Rollins y Nick Cave y Gil Scott-Heron (la revolución no será televisada, cantaba hace más de cuarenta años…) hasta el horror-punk de The Misfits. Tendemos puentes entre el rock progresivo y la pista de baile con la última entrega…
