HEGOA

“Iker Munduate is an artist and musician who brings a delicate sense of composition and design... Inspired in part by new age music, Its rippling melodies and frictionless glide recall the futuristic utopias of Detroit Escalator Company and the interior reverie of Nobukazu Takemura" - Derek Walmsley Continuing from where he left it 2 years ago after a sold out debut LP released on Hegoa, Iker is back with his follow up “Sinkronia”. A gripping take on Eastern and Western minimalist traditions influenced by the likes of Steve Reich, Suso Saiz or Midori Takada. Transcendental and esoteric rhythmic wonders that take time to unfold. A young percussionist and guitar player with electronic interests displaying a rich sonority and a great sense of structure and arrangements. This record shows the refinement of Iker’s attributes, who initially worked in the noise/punk scene and now is part of the local Free Jazz/Improv landscape of San Sebastian, although he currently lives in New York where he has been playing several gigs including a rendition of Glenn Branca’s Symphony No.13 at Lincoln center with 100 guitarists. For this new album he uses Xylophone, hand drums, electric guitar, synths and percussion instruments that guide us in an energetic way to territories somewhere between Italian avant-garde, Japanese New Age and American Minimalism. Iker Munduate Thusberg is a Basque multi-instrumentalist born and raised in San Sebastian and with strong ties to Mikkeli in Finland, where half of his family are from. A fine arts student at Bilbao’s UPV (Basque university), his interest in sound, art and design has led him to combine all these different disciplines and convey them into his music and his work.

“La Proyección”, the debut LP by Jose María Lluch, architect and musician from San Sebastian, appears as a transition, a gradual shift that happened over time. Intimate and innocent, disconnected and erratic at times, the 11 compositions presented here are extracted from recordings spanning 9 years, between 2015-2024. Humbly assorted in his home studio, the music here is for letting your mind drift. The processes of composition, recording, and editing intertwine. Field recordings from daily chores, fingerpicking guitar, soothing harmonics, tape manipulation and ethereal soundscapes, all combined with naive openness. We uncover joy found in imperfection. It is rare the occasion on which we have the chance to have a peak at someone's work, unattended, without specific context, after years spent making music simply to break away, not for anyone but for themselves. The songs in “La Proyección” unveil exactly that essence, found through collective memory. “La Proyección”, el álbum debut de José María Lluch, arquitecto y músico de San Sebastián, se presenta como una transición, un cambio gradual que se produjo con el tiempo. Íntimas e inocentes, a veces desconectadas y erráticas, las 11 composiciones que aquí se presentan provienen de grabaciones que abarcan 9 años, entre 2015 y 2024. Humildemente reunidas en su estudio casero, la música invita a dejar volar la imaginación. Los procesos de composición, grabación y edición se entrelazan. Grabaciones de campo de tareas cotidianas, guitarra fingerpicking, armónicos suaves, manipulación de cinta y paisajes sonoros etéreos, todo combinado con una apertura ingenua. Es raro tener la oportunidad de asomarse al trabajo de alguien, sin supervisión, sin un contexto específico, después de años dedicados a hacer música sin un fin comercial. Las canciones de “La Proyección” revelan precisamente esa esencia, hallada a través de la memoria colectiva.