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Siniestro Total“On The Road” ends in Galicia in north west Spain. The “green” converted Land Rover “slow” travels through the Galician landscape of mountains, hills, dense Atlantic forest and the rias of the wild coastline. ”on the road” seeks out musicians in the villages, towns and cities of this fascinating musical destination, filming the unique Galician musical fusion of flamenco, rock, celtic, rock and rap.
Starting the journey in A Coruna, talking to Manu Chao & his father writer and journalist Ramón Chao, who was Galician but moved to Paris to escape the Franco dictatorship. Manu Chao sings in Arabic, Galician, Portuguese, English and Wolof, often mixing them in the same song and is a major name on the world music scene.
"On The Road" will then travel to The Festival Internacional Do Mundo Celta, held annually in Ortiguiera on the Atlantic Coast.
Gaynor O'Flynn will talk to Rodrigo Romani from Milladoiro now a Galician radio presenter re how post the cultural repression of the Franco era this festival inspired and united Galician performers like Fía na roca, Luar na Lubre, Berroguetto & Milladoiro. "On The Road" will film some of the best traditional musicians in Galicia perform on stage with the Atlantic sea as the backdrop.
"On The Road" will travel to the port of Vigo and interview piper Carlos Nuñez, a Galician musical hero who has collaborated with artists such as Sinaed O’Connor, The Chieftains, Los Lobos & Ry Cooder. "On The Road" then travels with piper Susana Seivane to Pontevedra, to a bagpipe school and a new generation of players. Seivane is notable as the first major female player, paving the way for many more women in a previously male-dominated field.
Galician women are formidably strong and tribal and Galicia's most popular singers are female, We will meet Mercedes Peon, who discovered the traditional music of
“Immense” growing up on the Costa da Morte and collects and studies the traditions of her native region mixing it up with electric guitars and rock.
Uxia is a singer, originally with the band Na Lúa, who now presents a Galician music TV show. "On The Road" travels with to a “romeria” in the Ria Sacra, where female percussion group Leilas gather at a local shrine to perform
“Alala”, a form of Galician chanting.
"On The Road" visits Creative Commons Label, aregueifa.net to check out the latest in Galician music, Galician rap, Galician politics and the musical reaction to the environmental disaster of the Prestige oil tanker. Gaynor meets award winning Galician singer NARF, who collaborated with Arab Orchestra of Nazaret also known for their collaboration with Radiohead.
In the modern art gallery in Santiago, "On The Road" meets Anton Reixa former multimedia artist, writer in notorious Galician atvangarde band Os Resentidos, now a film producer and also meet Siniestro Total, legendary punk band. Reixa was an early innovator of multi media and brought hip hop to Spain and introduces Gaynor to Dios Ke Te Crew ; socially aware rappers, who rap in Galician.
En route "On The Road" “collects” Galician musicians to create the line up for the final show, the climax to the film. In a “Casa Rural” the musicians rehearse, fusing Galician & Spanish, as this unique, collaboration comes together.
The trip finishes on July 24th The festival of st james, a festival that culminates in the so-called "Fire of the Saint", when spiritual, music or simply curious pilgrims gather, as they have done for centuries, at the end of the famous Santiago Way and celebrate with music, fire and mayhem!
"On The Road" lines up of some of the greatest Galician musicians, and the concert is filmed in the vast square in front of the Santiago Cathedral, the musicians performing the unique collaboration... The film finishes with the
traditional “Fire Of The Saint” firework spectacular ending this amazing, musical Road Trip.
Starting the journey in A Coruna, talking to Manu Chao & his father writer and journalist Ramón Chao, who was Galician but moved to Paris to escape the Franco dictatorship. Manu Chao sings in Arabic, Galician, Portuguese, English and Wolof, often mixing them in the same song and is a major name on the world music scene.
"On The Road" will then travel to The Festival Internacional Do Mundo Celta, held annually in Ortiguiera on the Atlantic Coast.
Gaynor O'Flynn will talk to Rodrigo Romani from Milladoiro now a Galician radio presenter re how post the cultural repression of the Franco era this festival inspired and united Galician performers like Fía na roca, Luar na Lubre, Berroguetto & Milladoiro. "On The Road" will film some of the best traditional musicians in Galicia perform on stage with the Atlantic sea as the backdrop.
"On The Road" will travel to the port of Vigo and interview piper Carlos Nuñez, a Galician musical hero who has collaborated with artists such as Sinaed O’Connor, The Chieftains, Los Lobos & Ry Cooder. "On The Road" then travels with piper Susana Seivane to Pontevedra, to a bagpipe school and a new generation of players. Seivane is notable as the first major female player, paving the way for many more women in a previously male-dominated field.
Galician women are formidably strong and tribal and Galicia's most popular singers are female, We will meet Mercedes Peon, who discovered the traditional music of
“Immense” growing up on the Costa da Morte and collects and studies the traditions of her native region mixing it up with electric guitars and rock.
Uxia is a singer, originally with the band Na Lúa, who now presents a Galician music TV show. "On The Road" travels with to a “romeria” in the Ria Sacra, where female percussion group Leilas gather at a local shrine to perform
“Alala”, a form of Galician chanting.
"On The Road" visits Creative Commons Label, aregueifa.net to check out the latest in Galician music, Galician rap, Galician politics and the musical reaction to the environmental disaster of the Prestige oil tanker. Gaynor meets award winning Galician singer NARF, who collaborated with Arab Orchestra of Nazaret also known for their collaboration with Radiohead.
In the modern art gallery in Santiago, "On The Road" meets Anton Reixa former multimedia artist, writer in notorious Galician atvangarde band Os Resentidos, now a film producer and also meet Siniestro Total, legendary punk band. Reixa was an early innovator of multi media and brought hip hop to Spain and introduces Gaynor to Dios Ke Te Crew ; socially aware rappers, who rap in Galician.
En route "On The Road" “collects” Galician musicians to create the line up for the final show, the climax to the film. In a “Casa Rural” the musicians rehearse, fusing Galician & Spanish, as this unique, collaboration comes together.
The trip finishes on July 24th The festival of st james, a festival that culminates in the so-called "Fire of the Saint", when spiritual, music or simply curious pilgrims gather, as they have done for centuries, at the end of the famous Santiago Way and celebrate with music, fire and mayhem!
"On The Road" lines up of some of the greatest Galician musicians, and the concert is filmed in the vast square in front of the Santiago Cathedral, the musicians performing the unique collaboration... The film finishes with the
traditional “Fire Of The Saint” firework spectacular ending this amazing, musical Road Trip.
