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Kepa Junkera: Basque Reed Wonder

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6 Responses to “Kepa Junkera: Basque Reed Wonder”

cs says:

September 28, 2004 at 9:14 AM

Thank you, Richard. What a treat. We’ve been listening to the Kepa recording over and over, have visited his site and are now on to learning more about the Basque Country.

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Steve Owens says:

December 16, 2004 at 10:08 AM

Richard, I didn’t realise you were a fan of Kepa junkera as well.
I think we must have very similar CD collections!

Do you have much Astor Piazzola? I would have loved to have seen the two free reed masters playing together.

I went a bit mad about a year ago and bought a bandoneon on ebay. Fiendishly difficult to play.

take care and keep on listening.

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Steve Owens says:

April 23, 2005 at 10:56 AM

Richard,

I finally managed to track doen some more Kepa Juunkera.

Just in case you haven’t heard them, may I recommend “Lauu Eskutara” the CD he did with Julio Pereira, and particularly recommend “Leonen Orroak”, the one he did with Ibon Koteron, the Alboka player.

Keep up the good work

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Richard Silverstein says:

April 23, 2005 at 2:42 PM

Steve: I have one Astor Piazzola album & I love his playing! I would’ve loved to get a chance to see him play period–with or w/o Kepa.

You are one brave dude to take on something as complicated as a bandoleon.

Thanks for those suggestions. I’ll be looking out for them.

Kepa played here in Seattle again recently (a small Basque community here) but alas I couldn’t go (newborn twins don’t you know).

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Greg Froelke says:

November 20, 2008 at 3:47 PM

I love the sound of the Trikitixa, however I play a keyboard accordion. Can I get tranposed sheet music from Kepa’s “Bilboa 00:00H” CD’s or any of his music for that matter. I hope playing his music on a keyboard accordion wouldn’t be considered sacrilegious. I’m too old to learn a new instrument. Is the Trikitixa hard to learn?

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mercedes mendive says:

January 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM

For those of you who are looking for Kepa Junkera sheet music, there IS some sheet music for his early works all the way through to Bilbao 00:00. I am unaware of any further sheet music being published. The book: Kepa Junkera Triki Tixa has his bipgraphy, some history AND the sheet music. I have the book and play a lot of his music (I am a piano keyboard accordion player and a triki tixa student). Kepa is also a friend of mine, so if there is any information I can offer, feel free to contact me at mercedesmendive@gmail.com

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