BBAX – short name for Behi Bideko Andere Xuriak – are 4 talented artists with magnificent voices, Mirentxu Aguerre, Marie Hirigoyen Bidart, Pantxix Bidart and Paxkal Indo.
They combine their voices and delight us with their arrangements and harmonies. On some titles, they accompany their songs with guitar, percussion and flute.
Txori Txikia, an ode to freedom
Txori Txikia is a text by the poet Joxean Artze, which entered the popular repertoire thanks to Benito Lertxundi in 1974.
BBAX revisits it a cappella, and sings to us the story of a locked up bird, which we “liberate”, but which remains attached to its cage by those who praised its freedom to it.
The text denounces the manipulations of those who want to keep under their control a bird which by definition should be able to go where it wants.
With the image of the bird, the text draws a parallel with the Basque Country, which thirsts for true freedom.