"The earth is silent" is the title of the latest barricade. A CD with eighteen songs and a book of 184 pages that revolve around to a single issue: the Civil War and Franco's repression. A part of our history that some are bent, so interested in longer hide. For those who can silence and distort the pass over or are the same build and control the present. Or at least they are the heirs of his own farce. A farce that is woven over forty years and now think not unravel so easily.
In this sense, the earth is deaf stamp tremendous slap in the face of these terrible and grotesque guardians of silence, a cry in the deaf ear and a kick in the guts of those who are ignorant voluntarily. And that, in these times, it is good news.
Iruña Recorded and mixed and produced in Helsinki (Finland), Land is deaf is one of the disks worked BARRICADA. The musical aspect is flawless and the lyrics are the result of painstaking study and research he developed and Drug l over more than four years. The set has a depth and emotion hard to beat, as if BARRICADA been heavily involved in the darkest in our history to bring to light what others have hidden before.
On August 19, during one of the concerts that make the tour of "The land is deaf, we had the opportunity to interview with Enrique Villarreal, the Drug BARRICADA bassist and one of the leading voices of the band. Iruñatarra of 51, the neighborhood of Txantrea, deep voice, expressive and strong, close and friendly attitude, quick smile and clear gestures. The drug is revealed to us as a great conversationalist with whom we can talk at ease, as he often said, about the theme that envelops his latest work. QUESTION
. From the experience has brought you the process of study and investigation prior to the composition of this record, what do you think the theme of historical memory in the present moment? Do you think there is still too much indifference and begins to arouse people's interest to know what happened?
RESPONSE. In this issue, in this country, stupidity and ignorance are the great cloak that envelops everything. The
, 1936 was not only a coup, but also a direct attack against the civilian population. Before the war there was a high intellectual level in this country. It is not only familiar names in the world of culture, but also the ability to debate that existed in society. But suddenly we have a civil war, forty years of dictatorship and transition to laugh, even if some want to sell us as a model.
The slaughter that marked the arrival in power of a government-Catholic ex-Phalange, and their heirs who came later, has managed to nullify much of the capacity for discussion was the society of that time. And right now we still have to recover from all that. QUESTION
. Most of the work for the recovery ration of historical memory is being conducted by groups and individuals who dedicate their time to this cause, but from state institutions there are still many gaps that no one seems ready to fill ...
RESPONSE. There is very little desire to do things it should be. Here everyone has something to hide. Not only the right, but the PSOE and the UGT ... In general, no matter who know certain things. Both the State and political organizations that comprise it are hiding a very important part of our history. And that is something that not only is stealing from relatives of the victims but also the whole country in general.
There are many irregularities in this. First, Spain is a country where there may be human remains outside cemeteries. That is something the law forbids. Starting from there, would to be the judiciary itself is employed to find and open bottom in the pits. The State should be the first to support these individuals and associations which you are facilitating the work to investigate and identify where are the graves and where there may be human remains.
And not only is the issue of exhumations. Also interesting that the church would open its files to determine how many creatures were abducted and many properties changing hands illegally. Or to know who is responsible for so many women were driven into exile and begging after having murdered their husbands. Or what companies were enriched by the work slave to the Republican prisoners. All these things also have to know them.
systematization is necessary to understand the state was behind the Falange. All this was not the thugs who have told us. It was not a gang of thugs to town one day and be given a blue shirt and go out to make the cape, which would be quite violent charge if it had been, but all part of a repressive system that is used all over the country. There was a very well calculated project behind these atrocities.
The same people who fought in the name of God raped women to dehumanize. They shaved their heads to strip out their femininity. Castor oil was to be bathed in their own excrement. And all this was understood as an inner cleansing. They were stealing from their children because they said they were sick and could spread the disease, being red creatures. And of course, all this served as a warning to residents who do not share these ideas.
is also true that there were deaths of rightists and cures. And the number may be important, what happens is that either no one has bothered to count how many trade unionists were murdered, or how many lefties, for example ... From my point of view, all fall under the same indentation.
On both sides there are stories walks and killings without trial, what happens is that organizations that are part of the Popular Front prohibiting such practices, or at least try to control them. However, in the Franco 'fascist and Catholic, these same actions are pushed and pushed along by the military commanders themselves. And in the rear with the Falange exerting a systematic repression and exemplary.
There is no question that we peguemos by the numbers, something that would not make much sense, but it is clear that the triple-Francoist kills the people that the other party. Even on April 1, 1939, after finally winning the war is still being killing. And the madness continued until the death of Franco.
was a very clear plan to exterminate all forms of dissent. That madness was a real genocide ...
QUESTION. When talking about historical memory, a sector that always appears extremely uncomfortable shows with the theme. It is those who defend the silence with the excuse of avoiding reopen "old wounds" as does the Church and all right in general, only give an example ... Do you think it is worthwhile to mince words, be certain limits on the time to talk and respect some uncomfortable silences Non these sectors? Or is it better not to cut the topic, talk to whites and then take it as they want?
RESPONSE. The silence is respected only when you know what things are quiet. It is impossible to respect someone who does not know anything. That's not silence, is ignorance. I will pass the page when I let her read, but I can not do while they're teaching me pages from the official version are blank.
To me people adhered to the PP and other similar groups no wonder that interest in the silence. Aznar's grandfather is the official historian of the Franco regime. In Navarre we Jaime Ignacio del Burgo, who is the son of one of the main leaders of the Carlist ... I understand all this. I will not ask Aznar, specifically refer to someone who understands my position. Nor do I want to do, that does not interest me. We need to move above them in this regard. Pío Moa Ni Ussía or are going to say anything that might be interested. We never provide anything. Where all are blind, they are crooked. Everything is a copy of the copy, that's what they have done for many years say the same thing.
According to them, who were the red? "Well, dunno ... came here on a flying saucer, the English liam we shot with them and just throwing in the end." So is the story they have told us ...
What we have to do is write our own pages, our own books. And say things as they really are, openly, with all the letters we get and we care nothing without the discomfort of these people. QUESTION
. During the tour of this album have been some talks, accompanied by acoustic performances at different colleges and schools. A rock band go to engage in school talking about history is at least curious and unusual. I would say you have done something unprecedented in the history of rock and pedagogy. How has this experience for barrels? Have you found a response from the students or have been difficult to reach them?
RESPONSE. As it's been an amazing experience. We've gone where the teachers wanted to History pages of the book address a different way than they are accustomed. And we have been part of that alternative.
When explaining the topics I speak as a teacher. I can not teach or give too many specifics. But my vocabulary is different than the kids and kids are accustomed to hear in class every day, and only so because it was more enjoyable. They were a rock band arrived there with their acoustic guitars and a few pints that are not a teacher. And that was precisely what they thought, "Well, these are not teachers. To see what they say ... "And then you saw you the silent, interested in the topic, focusing on what was said. And the final applause told you everything. It has really been a joy and we are very grateful to have been able to enjoy that.
But our mission is not done teaching. That's up from teachers and teachers. Another thing is that you decide to use other means to reach the kids, like the music here, but they must be they who will step. And not everyone is willing to do so ...
QUESTION. When one gets involved in a cause as politicized as it is inevitable that you meet the likes and dislikes of each other. Ye are heavily involved in the issue, and I think you were very brave in this regard ...
RESPONSE. If there is any point of courage in this work is recognizing our own ignorance.
One day I start reading about it and little by little I am realizing that really do not know anything about this. Five years ago I find out what happens in prison is at the top of the hill behind my house in my neighborhood. And then I think: "Wow, how is it possible?". A forty-six years is beginning to realize all this ... That's a fucking shame, shit ... That's where it all started the process, both musically and personally. Only then did I realize that you have to do is listen and open our ears ...
about friends and enemies that you can win talking about these issues, as there always are. And with the experience we have lived both acoustic versions of what you say. We have been very good in many places, but in others we have not even been able to be because of the conflict that existed among teachers. We could go to some schools because a sector Teacher proetarras We've been called. And when it has not been for that, it was for that. I do not know ... There will always be an excuse for anyone not want to hear what happened. It's a shame, although I think it's normal.
After the interview, BARRICADA took the stage to offer more than three hours of live as energetic and sweeping as that of their first concerts. As if time does not happen to them, sang all the songs from his latest album and then do an extensive tour of those classics that have shaped their own history. The consistency was sound, lights and feelings, offering shows more clearly that this remains incomplete when we forget the past. BARRICADA For all is one. I hope someday we apply the story and we all be able to learn this simple lesson.
Text. Paco Garcia Morales (CNT Cartagena) Photos. José Manuel Ureña
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