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Nomadak TX (Nomadak TX)

Raúl De la Fuente
Spain / 2006 / 86 min. / Spanish with English subtitles

The music does the talking in Nomadak TX, an exhilarating, feverishly globe-hopping documentary  that follows Basque musical duo Oreka Tx as they seek out fellow artists in far-flung nomadic societies. They are masters of the txalapatra, an ancient percussion instrument they are seen hewing out of wood in the film’s opening moments. They ravel to remote regions of the world, using the txalaparta, as a medium for cross-cultural exchange. Traveling to the north of India, the Mongolian Steppes, the Sahara desert and Lapland, the film captures an exciting, organic musical conversation between cultures. 

Co--directed by Harkaitz Martínez de San Vicente and Igor Otxoa.In the Basque, Spanish, Gujerati, Hindi, Tsaatan, Bereber, French, Saharaui, Suomi, English, Mongol languages with English subtitles.

Director, cinematographer, screenwriter. His first works were musical: Compay Segundo, Vieja Trova Santiaguera, Rosana. Cuban and Gypsy marked his career and if the important thing is people, audiovisual format was appropriate to portray them. With the director and producer Paul Iraburu has worked closely on many projects and now the film together Nömadak Tx. Raúl has made documentaries in India, Lapland, Morocco, Algeria, Mongolia, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Andalusia, Peru, Cuba and Euskal Herria. Of his work emphasizes Janavak a road movie with Indian artists, District Five, stories of survival in the neighborhood of San Francisco, Fly, a visual metaphor for freedom starring birds and 373 years a profile of the members of the Vieja Trova Santiaguera Cuban group.