Dixebra
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Dixebra is a rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band from Asturias
Asturias
The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

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Dixebra was founded in 1987 in the Asturian city of Avilés
Avilés
Avilés is a city in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main towns in the Principality of Asturias.The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, in a land that belonged to the sea, surrounded by small promontories, all of them having an altitude of less than...

 with the idea of creating a rock band that would use the Asturian
Asturian language
Asturian is a Romance language of the West Iberian group, Astur-Leonese Subgroup, spoken in the Spanish Region of Asturias by the Asturian people...

 language in their lyrics with the aim of creating music that reflects the multiple realities of the country. The word dixebra is an Asturian word meaning division, isolation, independence... It has been traditionally used in the political rhetoric of Asturian nationalism
Asturian nationalism
Nationalism and regionalism is present in the politics spectrum of the Principality of Asturias. Although asturian nationalist parties like Partíu Asturianista did have institutional representation in the Asturian parliament and government and others like Andecha Astur have also political...

. The band has a unique style that mixes traditional Asturian music with such modern styles as rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

, rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

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Line-up

  • Israel Sánchez - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Primi Abella - Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Fernando Rubio - Bagpipe
  • Xune Elipe - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Javi Rodríguez - Bass
    Bass (instrument)
    Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...

  • Eladio Díaz - Saxo
  • Agustín Lara - Trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Sergio Rodríguez - Programming and live sound

Discography

  • Grieska - Fonoastur, 1990

    • 1. Da-yos caña
    • 2. Tolos cartelos
    • 3. Rapaza nacionaliega

    • 4. Manifiestu'l Frenti Folixariu
    • 5. Grieska
    • 6. Skandalera
    • 7. Merucu Xusticieru

  • Asturies o trabayes - L'Aguañaz, 1993
    • 1. Movidina uvieína
    • 2. Asturalia (Asturies + Australia)
    • 3. Ḷḷaciana asturiana
    • 4. Salvai les foques
    • 5. Tía Nemesia
    • 6. Rufu
    • 7. Muammar
    • 8. Dacuandu
    • 9. Brenga celta
    • 10. Rock militar
    • 11. Salú ya dixebra
    • 12. Nun puxa

  • Apúntate a la llista - L'Aguañaz, 1995

    • 1. Pallabres vieyes
    • 2. Rocangaita
    • 3. Zapatista
    • 4. Les cárceles
    • 5. Cañicón
    • 6. Independencia
    • 7. A cielu abiertu
    • 8. La tribu la corbata
    • 9. Asturcón
    • 10. Kuenka chunga
    • 11. Duérmete neñu
    • 12. Canciu d'amor

  • Dieron en duru - L'Aguañaz, 1997

    • 1. Queda la rabia
    • 2. Xuacu xinta xorra
    • 3. Esto ye Asturies
    • 4. Grieska
    • 5. Nun llores
    • 6. Xente
    • 7. Maizón
    • 8. Qué nos pasó
    • 9. Aselecer
    • 10. Tolos cartelos
    • 11. Indios
    • 12. El mineru
    • 13. Nesti mundiu traidor

  • Glaya un país - L'Aguañaz, 2000

    • 1. Mañana fría
    • 2. Baila'l mileniu
    • 3. Amnesia
    • 4. Vaqueira
    • 5. L'idiota
    • 6. Hestories repetíes
    • 7. La danza
    • 8. Puta vida
    • 9. Búscate a ti mesmu
    • 10. Wilma Loulé
    • 11. La partida

  • Sube la marea - L'Aguañaz, 2002

    • 1. La memoria
    • 2. Dime cómo ye
    • 3. Vientu na cara
    • 4. Ezeiza
    • 5. Si vienes
    • 6. In nomine dei
    • 7. Pan y roses
    • 8. Nenos de la cai
    • 9. Acabóse'l baille
    • 10. Puerca vergoña
    • 11. Díes de comedia

  • Cróniques d'un pueblu - L'Aguañaz, 2003 (disco-libro recopilatorio)

    • 1. Baila'l mileniu (remix)
    • 2. Skandalera (nueva versión)
    • 3. Mañana fría
    • 4. Duérmete neñu (nueva versión)
    • 5. Pallabres vieyes (nueva versión)
    • 6. Vientu na cara (remix)
    • 7. Tía Nemesia (nueva versión)
    • 8. Búscate a ti mesmu (remix)
    • 9. Dime cómo ye
    • 10. Asturalia (2001)
    • 11. Wilma Loulé
    • 12. La danza (remix)
    • 13. Nesti mundiu traidor
    • 14. Grieska (1997)
    • 15. Indios
    • 16. Pan y roses (remix)
    • 17. Canciu d'amor
    • 18. Nun llores
    • 19. Da-yos caña (nueva versión)

  • Ensin novedá - L'Aguañaz, 2005
    • 1. El vieyu combatiente
    • 2. La caballería
    • 3. Fraternal
    • 4. Mesmu cantar
    • 5. El manteru
    • 6. Día del ciclón
    • 7. Lleenda urbana
    • 8. Somos
    • 9. Ensin novedá
    • 10. Rompi'l ritmu
    • 11. Salta
    • 12. Nun quiero
    • 13. Pal Caribe

  • Dixebra n'Acción - L'Aguañaz 2006
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