Year: 1990
Country: Basque Country
City: Irun
Label: Esan ozenki
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 15
Time: 38 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Rap
Negu Gorriak was formed in 1990 by the brothers Fermin and Iñigo Muguruza with Kaki Arkarazo (former members of the band Kortatu). Later in 1990, Mikel Anestesia joined them and in 1991, Mikel Bap. This was the complete membership of the group until its dissolution in 1996.
They were completely committed to the political movement, starting with their choice to sing only in Euskera and continuing through their way of work and the message in their songs. They decided to manage themselves and created the record label Esan Ozenki. They performed their first concert in front of Herrera de la Mancha maximum security prison, leading to problems with the government. They were renounced by the Guardia Civil general, Enrique Rodríguez Galindo for the lyrics of the song «Ustelkeria», which accuses the general and the Guardia Civil of being involved in drug trafficking. This was the first time since the end of Francoist Spain that the government denounced a form of expression. These charges were dropped in 2001, five years after the group stopped performing together. In honour of their legal victory, the group performed three celebratory concerts to more than 30,000 people.
"gure jarrera"
Year: 1991
Label: Esan ozenki
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 17
Time: 40 min.
Style: Hardcore Rap
"borreroak baditu milaka aurpegi"
Year: 1993
Label: Esan ozenki
Format: 2 x LP
Tracks: 22
Time: 70 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Rap
"gorriak ideia zabaldu"
Year: 1995
Label: Esan ozenki
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Rap
"salam, agur"
Year: 1996
Label: Esan ozenki
Format: CD
Tracks: 15
Time: 45 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Rap
"ustelkeria"
Year: 1996
Label: Esan Ozenki
Format: CD
Tracks: 14
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Rap
This CD was sent to those who collaborated with a donative of 5.000 pesetas (about 30€) to help the band to cover the expenses of the appelation against the sentence on the trial that the Guardia Civil general Galindo presented against the band for the song "Ustelkeria". The band was condemned to pay a penalty and also had a prohibition to play this song live and to include it in any possible reissues of the album that originally contained the song. Written in the CD booklet: I reject the sentence that came out in June condemning the band Negu Gorriak because of their song "Ustelkeria" (Rottenness); besides de penalty, playing the song in concerts has been forbidden and it must be drawn from the following reeditions of the long play, which means an outrage against the basic right of freedom of speech.
