What is "haizea"

Haizea is a Basque band. Their music has been categorised as psychedelic rock, progressive rock and folk-rock. The word "Haizea" means "wind" in Basque.

Haizea released two records, Haizea and Hontz Gaua

The first record "Haizea" was released in 1977 by the label IOIOTS-149 LS, being more folk than progressive.

The second LP was "Hontz Gaua", released by XOXOA 111 03, 1979, psychedelic folk, one of the jewels of european progressive psychedelic.

The band line up were originally;

Xabier Lasa (guitar and voice) (later Txomin Artola)

C. Busto (drums, percussion and xilophon) (later C. Busto Hondar)

Xabier Iriondo (flute and guitar)

Gabriel Berrena (contrabass and electric bass)

Amaia Zubiría (vocals)

The album Haizea contains the following 7 tracks ;

1 Brodatzen ari nintzen

2 Urzo aphal bat

3 Loa loa

4 Goizeko euri artean

5 Uxa ixuririk

6 Oreina bila

7 Arrosa xuriaren azpian

The album Hontz gaua contains the following 5 tracks ;

1 Anderea

2 Egunaren Hastapena

3 Argizagi ederra

4 Arnaki

5 Hontz Gaua

Haizea is a feminine given name of Basque origin meaning " wind". It was among the 10 most popular names given to newborn girls in Basque Country, Spain in 2012. Hayzu is a variant of the name.