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Last week there were disputes about me in the presence of Maceda and Esgos in Ourense. In previous years, they were also on several occasions in other places of the same province, such as Xinzo de Limia, Laza, Verín or Viana do Bolo. I have enjoyed them to a greater or lesser degree depending on the circumstances of each moment, but, above all, always be very attentive to their own soundtrack. And I don’t just mean the nonsense that people create in the tumultuous roaring to the sounds of their two different rituals, although people are part of that too.

Thus, in Maceda, Laza or Verín, felos, peliqueiros and cigarrón move or clash with their variants and sonorous expressions as the main basis, although there is no definite and constant rhythmic pattern. In Xinz, the paravanes with their belts of bells and axóuxeres added to the dry battery of bladders, at the beginning of porco e mais de vaca na actualidade, create a sonority that, with its guttural watercress, seems more typical of the Otherworld.

These so-called entroids do not have any music of their own for these sounds created by the elements that are the protagonists and compose, regardless of whether they are mixed with brass music, bagpipes or thunders, brought by two percussion groups, mainly from Portugal.

But if there is an audience that has its own musicality. First hand, in situ, just living in Viana do Bolo. There I chose a rhythmic sound loop that accompanied the amazing ceremony as if they were there entering a transition that seemed to end. That year 2019, I read in Viana that he was invited to the RNE program, that evening he was in a restaurant in the city center with Pep Fernández, Andrés Aberasturi and José Ramón Pardo. Great, but when they were inside, they felt that endless and disturbing sound.

They did not believe the situation and asked me openly or because they are steadfast and persistent. I tried to explain this to my xeit, but I think my arguments were worthless to them. They are also aware that it is not possible to understand everything out of context and they do not insist too much on everything going as it should. It’s not that bad