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In November a tour of the
Basque capitals, Madrid and Barcelona will present
the new songs  Benito
Lertxundi and Fernando Pessoa unite
The Orio singer, whose career
began in 1974 with ‘Ez dok Amairu’, has recorded
his thirteenth and latest disc, ‘Nere ekialdean’;
he has set five poems of the Portuguese poet to
music
Iñaki Uriarte/Bilbo
This time Benito Lertxundi has looked towards
the east inside himself. Eleven new songs make up
the disc called “Nere ekialdean” (In my east)
brought to us by the Elkar recording company; this
thirteenth disc will apparently be on sale from
Monday onwards. He will put on five concerts in
the Basque Country and another three in Madrid and
Barcelona to mark the end of his seven-year gap.
“I myself have the impression that we have our
cardinal points inside ourselves. We have our
north, our south, our west and our east. On the
one hand I realise that this disc has come to me
like a light easterly wind, just like a cultural
attitude, with all this philosophy of Pessoa’s and
with some little things that I for my part have
done,” explained the singer.
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