Basque: Oki Moki: “Please feel free to transmit your thoughts and comments first”

If anyone has arrived tired to the third and final day of the Bilbao BBK Live festival, Oki Moki’s fast but sweet songs will surely provide fuel for the final day of the Bilbao event. The duo from Getaria will be in charge of opening, in trio format, the musical programme at Kobetamendi at 5:30 p.m. on the Beefeater stage, immediately after the doors open.

The Getaria band will close this summer the cycle that opened in 2020 with the album Working Class Popand the Bilbao event will be a good opportunity to say goodbye to this era of the group founded by Paula Estévez and Aritz Aranburu.

Last spring you released the EP Space DemoWhat is the current status of Oki Moki?

We published the EP Space Demo in the spring, for a tour. More than an official album, it is an experimental exercise that we published as a kind of B-side.

Since then, we have been composing our next full-length album, which we plan to record at the end of the year. This summer, we will close the cycle that we opened with the album Working Class Popand we hope to start next year based on the new album.

Have you been to Bilbao BBK Live before?

We have never been to Bilbao BBK Live. We have looked at the posters every year, but we have never asked to go.

This year we will live a double experience, on stage and as an audience.

What is essential for you at an Oki Moki concert? What will people expect to see you at a small venue or a festival?

We’re playing in a trio format, so we’d say that these are direct, deep-down performances. Pop noises, indie choruses and garage-punk urgency. Raw concerts, without too many artifices, but full of emotion that comes from deep within.

We love concerts that convey a lot with few elements, those that reveal people’s transparency.

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What other bands at the festival will you not miss?

We are looking forward to seeing Alvvays and Los Bitchos, and in the afternoon, some Mulatu Astatke; we love African music, and it is a joy to be able to find proposals like this from time to time at a contemporary music festival.

In the evening we’re going to see Mujeres; they’re our friends and we’ve seen them before, but we’re excited to see people we know on a big stage.

Where would you hold your dream festival and which bands would be a must-have on the bill, apart from Oki Moki?

It would be among trees, next to a river where you could swim. It would mix garage punk, pop, experimental dub, ambient electronics, kraut-rock, etc.

So, off the top of my head, The Babies, Japanther, Goat, Tinariwen, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Tangerine Dream, Chris Knox, Martin Newell, Beat Happening, Beach House, Tycho, Molchat Doma, Sad Lovers & Giants, John Maus…

What are your intentions and plans for the medium and long term? Are there any new songs in the works?

We have a lot of new songs in the works, and we hope to record our new album before the end of the year.

Source: Eitb

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