Nos anos 70 chegou á aldea a televisión. Nos 80 os electrodomésticos. Nos

anos 90 as guitarras eléctricas. Bravura ancestral enchufada nun amplificador.

En cada rueiro unha tropa da tralla, en cada aldea un conxunto arroutado.

‘In the 1970s televisions arrived in the villages. In the 1980s it was domestic

appliances. In the 1990s electric guitars. Ancestral wildness plugged to an

amplifier. In each block a rowdy gang, in each village a furious band.’

Xurxo Souto

Dos pinchos e das flores do toxo máis agreste,

do monte máis salvaxe.

Da calor e dos aromas da augardente e da queimada,

que teiman do orballo e das xeadas nos ósos.

Dos aquelarres en covas, en noites perdidas,

con bruxas e trasnos danzando por riba do lume.

Das pedras nos valados, nas cabezas e nas gadañas,

cravuñando o asubío dalgún cantar popular.

Das guitarras compradas coa primeira paga do paro

ou da economía somerxida.

Do tabaco de batea adulterado con aromas tropicais.

Do amor, do odio, da frustración ou dunha borracheira

de vatios nun alambique clandestino.

De todos eses sitios e de moitos máis,

naceu, cun aturuxo na boca, este rock tan noso … SEN CAPAR

‘From the thorns and flowers of the roughest gorse,

from the wildest mountain.

From the heat and the smells of moonshine and queimada,

that protect from the persisting rain and frost in the bones.

From the covens in caves, in lost nights,

with witches and goblins dancing over the fire.

From the stones in the hedges, in the heads and the scythe,

whispering the whistling sound of a popular song.

From the guitars bought with the first unemployment check

or the underground economy.

From the contraband tobacco tampered with tropical aromas.

From love, hate, frustration or an intoxication

of watts in a clandestine distillery.

From all those sites and many more, was born,

with a Galician yell in the mouth, this rock of ours … NON-NEUTERED’

Manifesto Bravú (quoted in Valiño)