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Xabi Solano - Black Milk
"Seeing the mix of ages in our concerts fills us with a lot"
Iker Barandiaran @IkerBarandiara 2010ko azaroaren 21
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What “passport” is needed to receive the problems of so many peoples?


Travel and want to know about those who have oppressed languages. Sometimes we have resorted to recording expressly, sometimes to concerts... The album has a wide variety of voices and colors. We tried to get to know it when we went outside and let the people know about us. I’m confident we’ve achieved it and that’s a tremendous experience of exchange-creation for us. But we need this passport for 2011, because we have to go abroad a lot starting in April.


You are the team that has performed most directly in the summer. How did you live?


We've done 70 shows this year, and we're already saying no. Since we launched the Black Milk, it has been the boom of Christ, we are amazed. With the first work young people began to come; with Leche Zopak they also began to unite well educated people; and with Noah also very young people. The truth is that we are very happy to see such a great mix of ages.


I don't remember any of the Miles songs that had that Jamaican air...


[Laughs]. It's the truth. We were very clear that it had to be cheerful and that it would move and we love the ska-roots line.

You have just written songs of popular initiatives such as Kilometers, Town Hall, Pirates of San Sebastián, etc. Are you indefatigable?
Even the youth. This is how it turned out. They have come to us and we were exhausted, but we cannot say no because we believe in these initiatives. What’s more, we are very proud of each of these songs.

The version of the kingdom of Navarre is very special. How did you come up with that?


I made the Milky Soups for work, but it comes on DVD, in credits, and they asked me to get it back. I associate my father's and mother's house with the profession of milk salesmen because they're about to lose it. I was inspired by the trumpet melody of a song by the band Beirut.