Skontra “Mazcando Miseries” Skontra + Algamar Producciones, CDALG/0012 (2010)
Release Date: December 2010
Running Time: 12 tracks (10 tracks + Intro and Outro)
Pioneers of the Spanish Celtic punk scene, Skontra released at the beginning of December 2010 their third album. As they were touring The Netherlands and Germany, the fans from those countries were able to get their hands on the new CD before the Spanish fans.
“Mazcando Miseries” is the evidence that their blend of punk and Asturian Celtic music keeps on being fresh and interesting. The band plays different genres (Streetpunk, oi!, ska, Spanish punk and Spanish rock) and the engagement with their mother tongue (Asturian) and local folk music is always there.
My faves are the songs in which the bagpipes take the lead and where the music shows the party side of the band: the intro/outro, “Santana”, “La to sienda” and “Billete ensin vuelta”. Moreover, a song from their first demo recording has been updated, “Caleyando”.
The lyrics, as usual, complain about the situations that we have to bear in every day’s life: corporations, governments, unemployment, etc. One of the most interesting lyrics is that of “Rock’n’Robo”, a song about the SGAE (the firm that deals with the copyrights of the musicians and writers in Spain ). Skontra share their music free on the Internet and their position against the policy that the SGAE, backed by the Government, is following is very clear: those guys are robbing. Another song, “Bales son Palabres” includes at the end some lines of the lyrics of “Cerebros Destruidos”, a song written by the Basque band Eskorbuto (probably the best Spanish punk song that a band has ever written).
As the album can be downloaded for free from their website, go ahead and download it. If you enjoy it, then you can buy it directly from the band. You won’t be disappointed.
Tracklist:
01 – Intro 50
02 – Caleyando 1:54
03 – La misma piedad 4:06
04 – Santana 3:48
05 – Gran hermano 3:04
06 – En mi cárcel 3:28
07 – La to sienda 3:20
08 – Callar lamentos 2:39
09 – Bales son pallabres 2:48
10 – Billete ensin vuelta 4:42
11 – Rock’n’Robo 2:14
12 – Outro 0:51
www.skontra.net/
www.myspace.com/skontra
www.lastfm.es/music/Skontra
www.facebook.com/pages/Skontra/119783326145
www.skontra.net/tienda.html (click to buy)
Review by Kinksmarkham
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Release Date: December 2010
Running Time: 12 tracks (10 tracks + Intro and Outro)
Pioneers of the Spanish Celtic punk scene, Skontra released at the beginning of December 2010 their third album. As they were touring The Netherlands and Germany, the fans from those countries were able to get their hands on the new CD before the Spanish fans.
“Mazcando Miseries” is the evidence that their blend of punk and Asturian Celtic music keeps on being fresh and interesting. The band plays different genres (Streetpunk, oi!, ska, Spanish punk and Spanish rock) and the engagement with their mother tongue (Asturian) and local folk music is always there.
My faves are the songs in which the bagpipes take the lead and where the music shows the party side of the band: the intro/outro, “Santana”, “La to sienda” and “Billete ensin vuelta”. Moreover, a song from their first demo recording has been updated, “Caleyando”.
The lyrics, as usual, complain about the situations that we have to bear in every day’s life: corporations, governments, unemployment, etc. One of the most interesting lyrics is that of “Rock’n’Robo”, a song about the SGAE (the firm that deals with the copyrights of the musicians and writers in Spain ). Skontra share their music free on the Internet and their position against the policy that the SGAE, backed by the Government, is following is very clear: those guys are robbing. Another song, “Bales son Palabres” includes at the end some lines of the lyrics of “Cerebros Destruidos”, a song written by the Basque band Eskorbuto (probably the best Spanish punk song that a band has ever written).
As the album can be downloaded for free from their website, go ahead and download it. If you enjoy it, then you can buy it directly from the band. You won’t be disappointed.
Tracklist:
01 – Intro 50
02 – Caleyando 1:54
03 – La misma piedad 4:06
04 – Santana 3:48
05 – Gran hermano 3:04
06 – En mi cárcel 3:28
07 – La to sienda 3:20
08 – Callar lamentos 2:39
09 – Bales son pallabres 2:48
10 – Billete ensin vuelta 4:42
11 – Rock’n’Robo 2:14
12 – Outro 0:51
www.skontra.net/
www.myspace.com/skontra
www.lastfm.es/music/Skontra
www.facebook.com/pages/Skontra/119783326145
www.skontra.net/tienda.html (click to buy)
Review by Kinksmarkham
.
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