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The Basque Museum and Cultural Center of Boise, Idaho is guilty again. 20 years after the first one, the CD ‘Basque Music of Boise – Volume 2’ is already on sale. Its aims, “capturing the Basque music history of the city,” as Patty Miller, director of the Center, told EuskalKultura.com. The presentation of the album was last July 2nd at the museum and you can already buy and enjoy it at the Museum or when coming to Jaialdi in a couple of weeks.

EBB/Boise, ID. Sponsored by the Basque Museum & Cultural Center of Boise, Idaho and with a grant from the Boise City Department of Arts & History, Volume 2, the second compilation of Basque music from the capital city of Idaho, came out on July the 2^nd. 32 songs recorded by four bands and 12 solo and duo musicians compose this record that aims at “capturing the Basque music history of the city,” in the words of Patty Miller, director of the Basque Museum. Miller was in charge of Volume 1, released in 1995, but this new album has been co-produced by Annie Gavica, Museum’s Education Programs Specialist, and Don Cunningham, who also was part of the original project.

“For last Christmas, we were requested to record some Basque music for children, with kid’s dances –explains Gavica−, and then we realized that almost two decades had gone since Volume 1 was released and that there are new bands and musicians, so we decided to put a new CD with Basque music from Boise.” In fact, some of the most popular current Basque-American bands, Amuma Says No, did not exist at the time of the release of the previous CD, so this album was almost obligatory.

But the inclusion of A.S.N. is not the only novelty, the group Txantxangorriak is also encompassed for the first time, and txalaparta, a percussion instrument deeply rooted in the Basque culture, is part of this CD, while it was not of V1. Miller highlighted that Ray Mansisidor, who also played in the first album, recorded his tracks for this CD on his nineties.

You can buy the CD, for $10, here.

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