PARUSÍA - Y SU NOCHE NO TENDRÁ FIN

This album is a conceptual album. But it is not one of the plentiful releases you can find lately. It doesn’t speak about vikings, english kings, egyptian, roman or greek gods. No, nothing of that. It is about something much more closer to us, it is about something that you even can check in situ. Our local history. Jerez’s history, Andalusia’s. About this beautiful land which has been bleed (and still is) more than enough. Governed by tyrants generation after generation with nothing changing in the status quo in the local idiosincrasy.

The central topic of the lyrics are the black hand events, on which there is lots of information, as much as in webs, books and even a very interesting documentary done by Canal Sur (Andalusian public television) a few years ago. Anarquist ideas arrived to the provinces of Seville and Cádiz at a very early stage, and it was unliked by the ruling clases; typical despots, wanting to keep the ruling feudalism perpetually. We try to play homage to one of the somberest pages of recent Jerez’s history and consequenly, Andalusia, relating one of the most dark and murky events that can be remembered. It was Jerez, scene at the end of the 19th century, of one of the first and most rabid battles that took place in our country in the defense of the workers’ rights. Day laborers, tired of the explotation that they were going through called for a strike to be done in June 1883, wanting to improve their working conditions (stop working from sunrise until nightfall and better salaries were their main demands).

At that moment, the despot governamental machine of that time tried to stop that revolt spreading news about the existence of a secret society, baptized with the name of The Black Hand, which was guilty of some of the crimes that occured at that time in Jerez and towns and villages of the nearby Cádiz mountains range. In an unpreceding court case and with almost no guarantees, seven day laborers were condemned to die by garotte, blaming them for the murder of man in a coutry house which was near Jerez. The executions took place in Plaza del Mercado, in the centric neighbourhood of  San Mateo.

This album is dedicated to those who have fought, fight and will fight for the rights of the proletarians, and especially to these seven men who lost their lives on the 14th June 1884 in Jerez de la Frontera: Francisco y Pedro Corbacho, Manuel and Bartolomé Gago de los Santos, Cristóbal Fernández Torrejón, Gregorio Sánchez and Juan Ruiz y Ruiz.