JOSETXO GRIETA: The Art of Distraction

JOSETXO GRIETA: The Art of Distraction . Ozonokids 2008. LP / 10,00 €

Josetxo Anitua maitatuaren eta zoritxarrez zenduaren taldearen azken diska. A aldea, Berlin, Oporto eta Aveiron zuzenean grabatutako eta Josetxok beranduago ekoitzitako grabaketekin osatzen da. B aldea estudioko lana da. Hau da talde madarikatu honen diska bizi, anitz eta seguruenik landuena da, krautrock bihurritik, poesia konkretura baita zarata oso oso zakarreneraino. Josetxoren hitz eta izaerak baldintzatutako estetika oso zehatzarekin, “The Art of Distraction” diamante bihurtutako kaos-a da (norbaitek diamante brutoa esango luke, baina a ze zakartasun sofistikatua!). Arnau Salak eskuz serigrafiatutako azala. 300 aleko argitaralpena.

Último y final disco de la banda marcada por el querido y desaparecido Josetxo Anitua. La cara A son grabaciones en directo en Berlín, Oporto y Aveiro con la postproducción de Josetxo. La cara B es trabajo en estudio. Este es el disco mas versátil, intenso y probablemente logrado de esta banda maldita, que presenta desde un retorcidísimo krautrock, poesía concreta hasta un ruido muy muy bestia. Con una estética muy definida por el carisma y las letras de Josetxo, “The Art of Distraction” es el caos hecho diamante (alguien podria decir que en bruto, ¡pero que brutalidad mas sofisticada!). Serigrafiado a mano por Arnau Sala de Ozono Kids. Edición de 300 copias

Last and final record from the band marked by the loved and gone Josetxo Anitua. The A side are live recordings from Berlin, Oporto and Aveiro, with postproduction by Josetxo. The B side is done in studio. This is the most varied and probably intense record of this dammed band. Here we can find from a totally twisted kraurock, concrete poetry, and very brutal noise to the epic huracanian The Breeze. The aesthetics of this record are defined by Josetxo’s lyrics and charisma. “The Art of Distraction” is chaos made diamond (somebody could say a rough diamond but what a sofisticated one!). Hand silkscreened by Arnau Sala from Ozono Kids. 300 copies edition.

Dedicated to Josetxo Anitua

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JOSETXO GRIETA:
Josetxo Anitua - voice & electronics
Mattin - guitar, computer & voice
Iñigo Eguillor: drums

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kategoria / categoria:: VINYL 12" LP

10.08.08 / 5pm

Les
Passions de
Fab (Francia)

Ou quand il est regrettable de ne découvrir les gens qu’après leur mort. Prenez le musicien basque (de Bilbao) Josetxo Anitua, décédé le 22 avril dernier au bout de 43 petites années. Prenez son le LP posthume de son groupe Josetxo Grieta (il était aussi chanteur de Cancer Moon), mi-live enregistré, mi-morceaux de studio. Confrontez-le au meilleur du noise et dites-vous que nom d’une coucougnette, ce qu’on a bien pu branler pendant tout ce temps. Indispensable.

10.21.08 / 4pm

DUSTED MAGAZINE (USA)

Harsh old-school noise from artist Josetxo Anitua, who passed on just before this album was released. Long tracks of real-life torture, an agonizing crush of rock-based aggression and primal, baseline emotions that ooze conflict and showcase a forlorn, pained disconnect from reality. Mattin helps to shape these tracks into a dangerous assault, pulling even further away to the extremes than the Billy Bao records, but Anitua himself drops the veil towards the end of side A, leaving nothing but his voice, processed into submission, and the occasional electronic squeak or martial drum pattern. Howling, mewling destruction akin to old Ramleh and Splintered records, but with a last-straw desperation not heard since the posthumous Steven Jesse Bernstein album on Sub Pop from way back when. Not for the weak. 300 copies, silkscreened inner sleeve. Doug Mosurock

10.22.08 / 9pm

Arnau Sala from OZONO KIDS (Barcelona)

Josetxo Grieta was the fusion of Josetxo Anitua, Mattin and Iñigo Eguillor. This art assault group based in Bilbao (Basque Country) had been confusing minds all over the iberian peninsula, a provocation through performance acts, deep fried computer electronics, psychological noise, etc. Using random techniques and creating awkwardness wherever they went whenever they wanted to. This LP, their first and only release on vinyl and our “official” release number 13 was hand-crafted, analogically mastered and only 300 copies have been pressed on solid black vinyl. Misteriously lost in the mail for months until June 2008.
Josetxo Grieta disbanded in year 2008 after the death of Josetxo Anitua. So this record is dedicated to him.

català

Josetxo Grieta era la fusió de Josetxo Anitua, Mattin i Iñigo Eguillor. Aquest grup d’assalt artístic centrat a Bilbao ha confós ments arreu de la península ibèrica. Una provocació en forma d’actes de performance, electrònica d’ordinador refregida, soroll psicològic, etc. Fent ús de diverses tècniques i creant incomoditat arreu a on tocaven. Aquest LP, el seu únic disc en vinyl i el nostre disc “oficial” número 13 ha estat manufacturat, masteritzat analògicament i se n’han prensat només 300 còpies en solid vinil negre. El disc va romandre perdut misteriosament en la inmensitat de les oficines de correus fins al juny del 2008.
Josetxo Grieta es va separar l’any 2008, just després de que jo revés les còpies del disc i després de la mort de Josetxo Anitua. Aquest disc està dedicat a ell.

11.07.08 / 8am

BERRIA (Euskal Herria)

Iragan apirilaren 22an egin zuen bere buruaz beste Josetxo Anituak. Gazteenek Kafe Antzokiko DJ gisa ezagutuko zuten arren, 90eko hamarkadako talderik esanguratsuenetariko baten abeslaria izan zen Anitua; Cancer moon taldekoa. Azkenaldian beste proiektu batean zebilen murgilduta, Iñigo Eguillor (bateria) eta Mattinekin (gitarra eta ordenagailua) batera: Josetxo Grieta taldean.

Reminder of a Precious Life eta Euskal semea diskoen ondoren, musika esperimental iluna dakar taldearen hirugarren eta azken diskoak.

KFJC (USA)

Josetxo Grieta dishes out its diseased noise rock experimentation from the bowels of Bilbao, Spain. Emphasis is more noise and less rock. Let’s take SIDE A: First is feedback followed by some ratchet percussion, strangulated strings, rumbling irregularities and foggy ravings & ramblings. This continues to build & subside in no discernable pattern except only disturbed desolation as a constant. Swarming bouts of white noise & dizzying din thrown in. Second is straight up noise, angry and frothing before taking a breather. The band seems to laugh & discuss the prior onslaught & strum a tune with creepy basement voices before catching a second wind that shifts noise parameters & shrieking levels. SIDE B: Hums & echoes malevolence. Tainted vocals & less discord but kinda unsettling just the same. There’s more white noise, panning & anguish present but in a psychotic asylum sorta way. I think if Sexy Prison turned Japanese and did slower messed up versions of WE Acediasts songs after listening to Jim O’Rourke and Lee Ranaldo this could be the tricky situation that would turn up.
# Reviewed by Neil Grovel on November 11, 2008 at 10:53 am

JOSETXO GRIETA: The Art of Distraction

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