Gauak

Naia Burucoa (Baiona - Basque Country) and Lea Marie Uria (Lomas de Zamora - Argentina) met in Berlin and started to talk about playing music together exactly in a moment where Lea Marie was trying to reconstruct the story of her Basque ancestors. She "found" them (or they "found" her, thanks to Naias help) and then they created together Gauak ("nights"), an electro-experimental duo where everything is sung or said in Basque, about things like (queer) identity, transness, and nature.

Gauak are in Bergen to record a double album during a residency at BEK, that will be presented during Prøverommet at Østre. Gauak (nights) is a call to end the stalemate made with a beautiful and ancient language that was prohibited for decades and now is coming back to life in its full energy. Egun (day) is a collection of field recordings in natural sites/places around Bergen, where we could think that Basque would be spoken for the first time. It is also connected with the idea of finding again an identity that was repressed and supposed to be lost.