Negu Gorriak

Negu Gorriak (basque for "Red Winters" or "Harsh Winters") is an underground European rock group. Their musical style combines rock, hip-hop, and reggae. It is impossible, however, to separate the band from its p

Negu Gorriak (basque for "Red Winters" or "Harsh Winters") is an underground European rock group. Their musical style combines rock, hip-hop, and reggae. It is impossible, however, to separate the band from its political ideology and its identification with the Basque Country and its language (euskara).

Negu Gorriak is born after the ska group Kortatu was disbanded in the most popular point of its career in order to avoid creative settlement. The influences from Os Resentidos, old school rappers, Public Enemy, NWA and Shinehead are very clear in their eponymic record where the drums are sequenced and the sampler becomes very present.