Sawdust
Olaia Inziarte
Panda, 2024

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Fourteen songs written during the Depression. Olaia Inziarte presented it in the first late night in Basque that can’t be mentioned now. The bru-ta-la piece Sawdust opens the disc. A jazz piano and a chainsaw from behind. Remembering To Pimp to Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. You can't get up from the Olaia bunk that doesn't identify with your name. Anxiety, hangover of success, mourning, mental illnesses, pains and infirmities of friends...

He has a lot, but a lot, to say, past what Olaia went through: “I can’t tell my mobid as if it were something terrible, because even the human being seems too horrible to lie down, and besides:I have a lot of resistance.”

“All of Inziarte’s songs are compelling, and that’s the one you can ask for from a song,” I wrote on my last album. Here, not only are they credible, but one sentence is equally plausible, and the other sentence is equally plausible. Thank you for saying so little.

I would collect more, but the space looks like this: “How much do I owe for this? I am paying. I’m paying for your altar.” “I feel far away from too many things that humans do. It seems to me that there are a lot of escaped creatures. It’s not going to be normal and normal.” “Journalists are not your friends.” “I’ve always been wrong to turn my back on the small one.” “It’s contemporary what you do, but it won’t last.” “With headphones on the mountain, we are unbalanced. Think how legitimate it is to metaphorize everything, everything, everything in the name of art”—and here I see the gesture to the Chill Mafia.

Olaia is about healing herself, but she is also proclaiming that creativity can be used for therapy but a little more: “Then I will also speak of beauty, but these indignities must occupy what needs to be occupied.” There is
an audio of the Aranguren Sueños in the center, and not in vain: “It would be nice to know what material you built the thread that has brought you here since that time.” It speaks of indifference, apathy, hope or insistence. Because “in the midst of so many doubts, from time to time, it is also advisable to have answers”.

Olaia Inziarte will sing sometimes as if it were her last song. But it won't be. For he will invent healing and offer healing, and reconcile with his name.