Thirteen rosas rockers on Book Day with Extremoduro, Mägo de Oz, Marea or Saurom

By Jorge Bobadilla

Extremoduro – “Love, love, love and widen the soul” (‘Deltoya’, 1992)

The first stop of this trip takes us to the beginning of the 90s, when Extreme He released his third album, ‘Deltoya’, in which we were waiting for a first major leap of quality of those of Robe And also what would be a constant in the work of the band, the careful literary references, which this time presented us to Manolo bentwhose work, years later, would become the main protagonist of a complete album we are talking about later.

“Love, love, love and widge the soul” It became an essential subject of Extremoduro concerts until the last of the band’s days (which we always dream of not being written yet, really). Like all the topics included in ‘All to take for ass’, That live interpretation would become as iconic as unforgettable.

Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick – “Omega” (‘Omega’, 1996)

When talking about the merger between rock and flamenco Enrique Morente and the Granada Lagartija Nickan ‘omega’ that sometimes forgets that in his lyrics he adapted poems of the ‘Poet in New York’ of Federico García Lorca In addition to texts from Leonard Cohen. The theme that gave title to this essential work is what we enjoy again on this occasion, one of those who return the words of the always remembered poet vilely killed in 1936.

Mägo de Oz – “Wind mills” (‘The Legend of La Mancha’, 1998)

They cannot be missing in this literary review those of Txus di fellatiothat before the end of the millennium, they surprised us with one of the albums that always claim the followers who carry their steps from the beginning. ‘The legend of the stain’ He offered us a different look to the immortal and essential work of Miguel de Cervantesto which it is alluded to as unbeatable, but that once you dive into it, it is short.

“Wind mills”, in addition to one of the most visual and direct references towards ‘Don Quijote of La Mancha’it is one of the essential classics of the band, which cannot be missing in any of its concerts.

The soft – “Words for Julia” (‘Vispera de Todos Los Saints’, 2000)

The poem written by José Agustín Goytisolo In 1965 he popularized at the hands of Paco Ibáñez Four years later with a version that for the rockers it was definitely eclipsed in 2000 when the album ‘Hallowe’en’ of The soft included “Words for Julia” interpreted with the unmistakable voice of Yosi and by the virtuous guitar of Alberto Cerejo (Not forgetting Charlie on the bass and Whether to the battery). An issue that is already part of the legend of those of Ourense and that returns to tear the listener inside every time it sounds.

Extrechinato and you – “embraced at sadness” (‘Basic poetry’, 2001)

A decade after we began to sing the issue with which this literary compilation, the members of Extremoduro and Platero and you (And some Fitip) They joined to put music to the work of Salamanca Manolo Chinato, which was definitely cast as an unavoidable reference for those who approach the trajectory of both bands. A true hurricane was the result of this union that resulted in ten themes among which was also the popular “Red your ears” that Fito had included in his first album with the Fitipaldis in 1998. The heartbreaking “Embraced sadness” It is the choice for today.

Holy Land – “The Song of the Pirate” (‘Land of Legend’, 2003)

Even an academic like Arturo Pérez Reverte He surrendered to the great exercise carried out by the Riojanos Tierra Santa to adapt “The pirate song” of José de Espronceda With one of the most epic songs of the discography of those of Angel San Juanwhich is to say a lot. There will be few that since 2003 resorted to follow the issue mentally while reciting in class the well -known verses of one of the greatest exponents of romanticism in our country.

The sea – “Gypsy City ”(‘28000 stabs’, 2004)

Speaking of poetry and rock, a long time ago since you cannot avoid the figure of one of the best lyricists that have been known, Kutxi Romerowho did not hesitate to take the fourth album of his The sea A poem as powerful as a guitar with top distortion. Lorca Go back to this text with the adaptation made by Berriozar’s on your album ‘28000 stabs’one for every day of life, it is said, of which more than two decades have already passed (many stabs are those).

SINKOPE – “A GALOPAR” (‘And if you want to cry, I make you laugh’, 2006)

Another spearhead of rock poetry is Vito íñiguezwhose particular ability with the words demonstrated with his synkope gave way to the verses of Rafael Alberticalling “To gallop until they bury them in the sea” In a text loaded with epic, courage and feeling, which continues to put the hair on end today, when a similar shadow against which the poet called to ride again tried to rise again (it is already known that the one who forgets his story is condemned to repeat it, but that is no longer music). ‘And if you want to cry, I make you laugh’ It was the album that closed with this poetic shout.

Dark Moor – “Mio Cid” (Reissue 2023, ‘Ancestral Romance’, 2010)

“The singing of mine Cid” is the one who directs us Dark Moor with his “Mio cid”theme that last 2023 presented us remixed and remastered from the original that was included in the album ‘Ancestral romance’ 2010. Few historical figures raise as many passions as Rodrigo Díaz de Vivarwhose adventures and final epic were embodied in the aforementioned anonymous work on a teacher in the art of war that gives the feeling that he could have made his own reconquest of the reconquest if he had wanted to.

We do not forget that Dark Moor also counts in their catalog with an outstanding version of “The Pirate’s song”, but the historic “Campeador” could not stay out of this list.

Loquillo – “Political incorrectness” (‘His name was that of all women’, 2011)

The solo stage of Loquillo It surprised us with a more poetic vein in 2011 with the publication of ‘His name was that of all women’, third of Barcelona’s album after leaving behind The trogloditesin which he put voice to the poems of Luis Alberto de Cuencapoet, philologist, translator and a thousand more tasks around the culture, including its passage through the Secretary of State for Culture, whose work has been recognized with the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel La Católica and the National Poetry Award.

The ten -the -themed album opened with this “Political Incorrectness” How good it feels the not rarely controversial loquillo.

Vetusta Morla – “Master Hit” (‘La drift’, 2014)

We began this trip by alluding to two characters that have marked the lives of several generations from the pages (or the frames) of ‘The endless story’. Another of the fantastic characters that presented us Michael Ende In his immortal work was the Old morlagiant turtle with a worrying cold that is appearing right now in the minds of all readers.

We are now ready to enjoy one of the most intense themes created by the band, whose guitarist and also a lyricist, Guille Galvánalready has published their own poems. ‘The drift’ It was the album that finished settling the band as one of the main references of independent rock, and in it “Masterstroke” His title was good as the first single.

Hamlet – “be or not to be” (The Anger ‘2015)

If you can’t talk about today without allusion to Cervantes already Shakespeare (Although it is now commented that neither of them really died on the 23rd, but they say so many things …) You can not talk about the British without some of his characters, and in our world the best known is the Danish prince who has given name to one of our most successful bands in terms of metal, the constantly innovative Hamlet.

It took a long time since they decided by this name, for which an old battery that reached an essay with the work is responsible, until they launched a topic with one of the most iconic phrases, “Being the Na Being”, But the moment came and did it in 2015 inside the album ‘The anger’.

Saurom – “The Little Prince” (‘The Little Prince’, 2025)

It is the most recent and that is why the list closes, but one of the bands that has taken the most references from literature to rely on its different stages, starting from its own name, the evil personified in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. This 2025 one of the most anticipated moments had as the protagonist The launch y The presentation of the new album of Sauromfully based on the always recommended ‘The Little Prince’ of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

You can’t forget either ‘Eleven romances from al-Andalus’, fifth album of the group, which saw the light in 2008 with another demonstration of love for literature between texts of Góngora, Béquer the Lorca among others to fill the legends of his land with music. And either “The battle with the wine leats” in which a phrase that today is more real and advisable was still expressed: “I open the book and look out your world.”

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