Genre
Galician traditional music. The album presents a programme of traditional Galician pieces - foliadas, muiñeiras, alalás, and jotas - played on "gaita" (galician bagpipe) and frame drum. It documented recordings of the traditional music of the Salnés and Ulla valleys.
Release
Released in 1979 by Guimbarda, the Spanish independent label that during the late 1970s published some of the most significant recordings of the Galician, Basque, and Catalan folk revivals. It was the group's first and only album. Guest musicians Antón Seoane and Rodrigo Romaní - who would shortly become founding members of Milladoiro - contributed to the sessions.
Production
Self-produced by Faíscas do Xiabre.
Reception
"In Memoriam" is considered a beautiful and important document of Galician traditional music from the period of the Galician folk revival of the late 1970s. The album's title reflects its commemorative spirit towards a repertoire of traditional music then at risk of disappearing. Is regarded as a foundational document of the Galician folk revival, valued for its ethnographic significance: a direct, unmediated recording of living "gaiteiro" tradition at a pivotal moment in Galicia's cultural reawakening. Its importance lies in its cultural and historical significance. It remains a collector's item, treasured by enthusiasts of Galician traditional music.Its four members - Nando Casal, Moncho García Rei, and Xosé Vicente Ferreirós - went on to become permanent founding members of Milladoiro.
Faíscas do Xiabre
Faíscas do Xiabre was a quartet of traditional Galician music formed at the beginning of the 1970s in Catoira, active until 1979. Their core members - Xosé V. Ferreirós (gaita, bagpipes), Fernando 'Nando' Casal and Ramón García Rei 'Moncho' - spent years touring Galicia playing at fiestas and traditional festivals, always in close contact with the old "gaiteiros" (bagpipers) who were heirs to the living tradition: Os Campaneiros, Os Irmáns Graceiras, Os Areeiras and Os Rosales.The group took their name from the Serra do Xiabre, the mountain range overlooking the Arousa estuary near Catoira. At the beginning of 1979 they published their first and only album, for which they had the collaboration of Antón Seoane and Rodrigo Romaní, just before three of their members joined those two musicians to create the folk group Milladoiro. The three who did - Ferreirós, Casal, and García Rei - are the only musicians who have remained in Milladoiro from its founding on 15 May 1979 to the present day.
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