"Gáitropos",
the man-bagpipe, protagonist of a beautiful apocryphal legend,
gives the title to the second album of the Galician band
Leixapren. Leixapren was born in 1985 and in principle,
their music was the same that they received through their
incursions in the different popular festivities of Galicia.
To those traditional instruments suitable to each song,
they added the typical ones of any folk formation, always
with the most simple acompanyment possible, with the purpose
of never diverting the attention from the basic enchantment
of the popular melodies. Nevertheless, not distancing themselves
from traditional Galician music, Leixapren have always presented
in their repertoire, compositions of their own in which
there is a constant search for that peculiar "something
else" that every artist wishes to transmit. In this
last work, Leixapren, perhaps infected by the innovative
air of some of its members, resorts to more complex harmonies
in several songs. In "Gáitropos", the purest
most popular types of music are combined with the most innovative
tunes that the band has ever composed up to date (Na Fonte
dos Tornos, A Rúa das Hedras, ...)
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