Josetxo Grieta
"Sonrisas vendo ¿Dónde
nos llevan?"
Sonrisas vendo-¿Dónde nos llevan?
is the paradox of
the fixation of a improvisation on a CD. It's the second chance. It's
the final echo of the
doppler effect. From that which were a precise air current moving
through the cracks.
Josetxo Anitua and Mattin kill silence. Sixteen minutes of discomfort
registered on
0's and 1's.
The proof that the next time you should participate.
Recorded live by Roberto Mallo, at Luis Seoane
Foundation in may the 10, 2007; A Coruña on the "Eating Borders
Tour"
by Josetxo Grieta and Antoine Chessex
Concert organized by asociación Fase
In this occasion, Josetxo Grieta were Josetxo Anitua and Mattin
Cover photograph: extracted from the video "Red Light/SXE",
Iñaki Garmendia, 2005.
Thanks to asociación Fase, Piji, Antoine Chessex, Mark,
Iñaki and Miguel's mother.
http://www.mattin.org/Josetxo_Grieta.html
Ruta 66 #251
Julio/Agosto 2008 (Barcelona)
Josetxo Grieta, Sonrisas vendo (Tgmt) / Billy Bao Dialectics of
shit (parts unknown)
Atormenta
pensar qué pasaría en la cabeza y sentimientos de Josetxo
Anitua, ahora
que sabemos de su trágico fin. Añade esas
desaparición una siniestra
dimensión extra al tortuoso grito elemental que fueron Josetxo
Grieta.
"! No siento nada!" , brama con todas sus fuerzas Anitua, y un
escalofrío me hace comprender. Grabado el año pasado en
Galicia,
durante su única e incloncusa fira, Sonrisas vendo, el primero
de los
títulos postumos que están previstos del dúo, a
los que cabrá sumar un
DVD de su último concierto, cierne una sombra inquietante
porque, por
fin, tanta desesperación parece tener sentido. Caos primordial,
todo lo
excluye la dantesca kermesse aquí capturada, como si el resto
del
mundo, y con él la humanidad entera, se hubiera quedado
petrificado en
un grotesco rigor mortis. Queda de Josetxo Grieta su otro 50%,
Martín,
absorvido últimamente en exclusiva por uno de sus muchos
proyectos,
Billy Bao. Asunto extremo, también, en apariencia como una
descarga de
Stooges en el hipotálamo de la niña de El Exorcista, en
realidad un
sabotaje de la experiencia rock, que tergiversa, subvierte y pervierte
códigos bajo un monolítico rodillo. Gozan los muy
cabrones practicando
sadismo con el oyente, recordándole su vida de mierda, simulando
que la
aguja se ha atascado, despedazando esquemas al tiempo que los subliman
cual carga de caballería cosaca. Ponen a prueba nuestro temple,
pero
por si les sirve de algo, es disco del mes en mi agenda personal. JAIME
GONZALO.
Rock de
Lux (Barcelona)
Josetxo Grieta
"Sonrisas vendo ¿Dónde nos llevan?"
Taumaturgia
Esta
grabación en directo del proyecto del fallecido Josetxo Anitua
-en este
caso Anitua y Mattin- es una improvisación de dieciséis
minutos
únicamente apta para valientes: gritos, distorsión
profunda, ecos de
fábrica fantasmal...Del CD-R solo hay cien unidades, pero puede
descargarse gratis en
www.taumaturgia.com
Juan Manuel Freire
All
liners notes of this one are in Spanish (or is it Basque?) and as far
as I can tell the material on the CD was recorded on may 10, 2007
during the “Eating Borders Tour” of Josetxo Grieta [website]
and Swizz Saxwizz Antoine Chessex [website,
make sure to scroll down, he placed his links a tad off-screen]. A tour
that for the larger part followed the coastlines of France, Spain and
Portugal. For this occasion Josetxo Grieta were Josexto Anitua
(also member of Cancer Moon, and according to the
label’s website passed away recently) and Mattin [website]. Though
this CDr is not released on Mattin’s own label, but on Taumaturgia
[website], a
label I hadn’t heard of yet, it has all the characteristics of a
Mattin-release, up to the Anti-copyright-statement [more info about that]
and its non-standard-size. The CDr’s one and only track is some 16
minutes in length, and starts off in an acoustic, almost folky
atmosphere: we hear someone strike an acoustic guitar, while the vocals
that accompany it are half spoken, half sung, at regular intervals they
turn into shouting, and things grow only harsher and wilder from there
on (as a side-note: I first thought that this was a solo-project). As I
don’t know Spanish (nor Basque) I don’t know what the lyrics are about,
but knowing Mattin’s work I can imagine that they aren’t random. It’s a
live recording, and such relases are often anecdotical, or to be
regarded as documenting a particular evening - As for me, I indeed see
it as an interesting live-document, of a gig I surely would have loved
to see for the way it gradually builds up towards its trashy
noiseclimax. I already wrote a review of one of Josetxo Grieta previous
releases [you can still read it
here],
the “peeled banana” of that releases’ artwork is re-used for this one.
There is a whole concept behind the work of Mattin, a concept that is
shared by Taumaturgia and they have loads of links on their sites
pointing you to places where you can learn more about what they’re
doing, so I suggest you give it a go. As a side-note: I mentioned I
didn’t know much of Basque, but it could as well be Catalan (Basque and
Catalan are both languages that are spoken in Spain, and part of
France, besides the dominant Spanish language - they both have an old
and distinct culture, and were oppressed during the regime of Franco -
both regions have since then gained more political autonomy).
Sound Projector (17
Issue, November 2008, London)
Josetxo Grieta, often associated with Mattin, returns with a
live CDR Sonrisa vendo-¿Donde nos Ilevan? (TAUMATURGIA TA 03).
For less
than 17 minutes, we hear a man ranting and raving in front of a
microphone while all around him noise, samples and feedback seem to be
signalling something approaching the end of the world. The apocalyptic
sense of alarm can be said to have registered on the anxious face of
the young man on the front cover, whose portrait has been overprinted
in lurid red. We noted his clever European Son release last issue, but
this item is quite another kettle of bones.
Just
Outside (Brian Olewnick)
Josetxo Grieta - sonrisas vendo - ¿Dónde nos llevan?
For
this occasion, the band consists of Josetxo Anitua and Mattin, playing
guitars, electronics and other noise-emitters. I'm probably finding
myself in increasingly diminishing company, but dammit, I still get
something of a kick from this sort of thing. I found myself thinking,
if I were in an adjacent room in a cellar somewhere hearing this
clatter and wail, a smile would cross my face; "They're clearly
enjoying themselves in there." A mere 16 minutes (probably a good idea)
of audience noise, idle guitar strumming, mumbling, screaming,
crooning, extreme raucous noise, etc. Fun!
discography
w.m.o/record label
desetxea net label
www.mattin.org