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Basque Book and Music Fair; it included songs composed largely by the frontman Juan Carlos PĂ©rez. They decided to rebrand the group on the grounds that the previous name was associated to evening dancing performances. They chose
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rhythm', a binary rhythmic pattern we didn't know before. He brought along the song concept too, of a three-minute duration and a chorus. Up to that point, we made small conceptual pieces, songs with a long development."
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music. During the next three years they went through various reshuffles in the line-up, and the music grew more complex and elaborated, but the symphonic sound remained until their third album
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