txalaparta

From the deserts of Morocco to the lushness of India to the frozen tundra of Lapland to the grassy steppes of Mongolia, the filmmaker offers the txalaparta as a conduit for communication that transcends culture, geography, and language.

Letter to America 2007

He confronts the extinction of a lifestyle armed only with a camera and a little-played Basque instrument, the txalaparta.

Letter to America 2007

From the deserts of Morocco to the lushness of India to the frozen tundra of Lapland to the grassy steppes of Mongolia, the filmmaker offers the txalaparta as a conduit for communication that transcends culture, geography, and language.

Letter to America 2007

He confronts the extinction of a lifestyle armed only with a camera and a little-played Basque instrument, the txalaparta.

Letter to America 2007

As seen in the film, the way to address this was pretty simple, generally just with the two of them and cameraman / director Raúl de la Fuente arriving in the communities where they hoped to film: "When we made the ride to a little village, the first thing we did was play the txalaparta," Otxoa says.

Spinner 2009

It's the nature of what they do under the musical name of Oreka Tx -- they play the txalaparta, one of the few instruments that this one.

Spinner 2009

Soon the txalaparta (often abbreviated as "tx") took hold as an instrument not just of music but of Basque culture and pride at a time when it was being squashed under the continued rule of Spain by fascist

Spinner 2009

And among the Sámi people in the Lapland region of north Sweden, they even made a txalaparta entirely of ... ice!

Spinner 2009

On Nömadak Tx, the duo Oreka Tx play the Basque instrument the txalaparta (basically a plank of wood) with Indian, Scandinavian and Mongolian musicians.

unknown title 2009