• Release date: 20 January 2023
• Edition of 300 albums on vinyl (Bandcamp download code included)
• Recorded live in the Shot! studio in Arrasate on May 30, 2021
• Recording and mixing: Ander Barriuso, Elektrika Grabaketak
• Mastering: Ruy Mariné, Dubplates & Mastering
• Pressing: Record Industry
• Drawings: Joseba Agirrezabalaga
• Design: Studiopol
• Printing: L’Anacrònica
• Risograph sticker: Máquina Total

Urpa i musell is pleased to present our seventh release entitled Lepok by Joseba Agirrezabalaga & Mikel Vega.

The album consists of improvisation from a duo, in which both musicians play guitar and effects. Joseba and Mikel are good friends and know each other very well but, at the same time, they had never played together before. This mutual ambivalent (un-) knowledge creates an unrepeatable situation of intimate distrust. They interact vigilantly, very close to one another, neither artist able to escape. Compact tension crosses the album and the friction of its content takes them to irrepressible eruptions. In doing so, their interplay becomes arid. Lepok drags us with them until we are irremediably buried.

Defining such complex musicians and their scene seemed very difficult to us. A closer point of view may be warmer and more precise. Because of that, we asked two relevant personalities of this milieu to help us: journalist Antton Iturbe and musician Ibonrg, who kindly agreed to shed some light on the subject.

Tracklist

1. Birjaiotza (07:10)
2. Low Soil (07:12)
3. Ulu (02:43)
4. Lepok (09:40)
5. Mamu kitarjolea (07:29)