Awesome album, originally released in 2000, by the Basque music pioneer Fermin Muguruza, formerly of the great bands Negu Gorriak and Kortatu.

Fermin Muguruza has taken a step towards the music of his good friend Manu Chao on this album and it pays off with a style that shares the flavour of Manu's music, while remaining distinct in its own right, presenting groove, excitement, and most importantly, intelligence.

Yo get reggae/ragga/dub, with an almost ska-ish touch. The lyrics are all in the historic Basque language of Euskera, the oldest in Europe, with helpful translations on insert in french, english, and spanish.

When Manu Chao toured the countries with his second solo album, the culture features of dailies liked to display the `soundtrack of the opponents of globalisation'.

A regrettable reduction of the facts, as not only Manu Chao himself repeatedly emphasised, who had already recognised the revolutionary drive for his band Mano Negra and himself in the mid-90s that even the most urgent call to revolt loses its power if it is repeated too often.Fermin Muguruza, a convinced Basque and actual opponent of globalisation, represents a completely different school: he never tires of railing against the imperial policies of global corporate giants, castigating television as an instrument of disinformation and recalling the violent and militaristic aspects of American foreign policy.

Where Manu Chao sends his songs as sound postcards from his musical travels around the world, Fermin Muguruza writes harsh battle prose in political pamphlets.