Max and Xavi, percussionists of Ojos de Brujo (Catalonia/Spain) was interviewed by Freemuse / Eric Silva Brenneman at Roskilde Festival, 26th of June 2003.
Seldom do you hear of a band that throws Spanish Flamenco, Caribbean Cumbia, and Spanish Hip-Hop in a blender to produce a very unique and extremely entertaining musical style. This is Ojos de Brujo from Barcelona.
Part I Has Ojos de Brujo ever experienced any form of musical censorship?
Xavi and Max from Ojos de Brujo
Part II How did you as musicians fight against such censorship?
Brasilian legend Gilberto Gil is headlining ‘Festival against censorship’ in Bilbao in Spain in November 2009 - Europe’s leading festival against censorship
Author Antonia Gala said that “censorship must be fought with humour” when participants of the Festival Against Censorship met in a three-hour roundtable in Bilbao
A packed concert hall in Guernica greeted Ray Lema and his trio on 28 October 2007 as the African piano veteran concluded the second 'Festival Against Censorship'
On 2 November 2006, the Basque hardcore punk band Soziedad Alkoholika was taken to court for an alleged crime of praising terrorism in some of their songs
The Basque rock singer Fermin Muguruza suffers from concert bans in Spain. Threats from neo-fascist groups was said to be the reason for the cancellations of his concerts
