Oskorri is a clean, fresh, spontaneous and cheerful concept. The perfect balance between voice and instruments, ballads and parties, acoustics and electrics, and between traditional and modern instruments... All these reasons make their music really difficult to categorize. Music without tags, full of new sounds, with traditional roots but modern at the same time. Eclectic, but without falling into the monotonous traditionalism, maintaining their own sound as the result of all seven musicians sensitivity.

Their musical career, more than 30 years long, is known by its richness, quality and universality. They have been strangely described as the best folk band in the peninsula, although they come from a urban and industrial environment.

In October of 2003, the band decided to change their image, music and ideology. With the new formation fully settled, the band left behind a really creative period to begin recording the new songs of the album Desertore.

Among the contributors it's worth to mention the producer Luis Lozano, and on the other hand the musicians Andoni Egaña, Maialen Lujanbio, Harkaitz Cano, Jon Sarasua y Unai Elorriaga, among others, as lyricist, and Leturia, Faltriqueira and Eliseo Parra. An excellent team who made this album become one of their best in recent years.

Two years before, Oskorri had launched Vizcayatik... Bizkaiara, with the rescued material from the bertsolari (singers of bertso, a musical verse in Basque tradition) Xabier Amuriza. It's a selection of colourful Biscaian themes which reflect the society in the 19th century. Musically, the record was created for partying, dancing and for the most playful and spontaneous enjoyment; some of the songs are fluent and adventurous, while others are tender and intimate, but they are all brilliant. Their contributors were the co-producer Eliseo Parra, Kepa Junkera (trikitixa, a traditional Basque instrument) and the rhythmical "zapateado" (tap-dancing) of Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriente).

Their last album, Ura (Agua), undoubtedly brought back the band's modernity because of the musical quality, freshness and design, and in 2000 was considered one of the best records of "world music" by specialized European critics.

The band's musical career is full of unforgettable moments. One of the most important took place when, just before the change and consolidation of two new members, the band celebrated their 25th anniversary with a memorable concert as a tribute to all the different languages, inviting 16 musicians of different countries to sing in their own language. Some of the artists participating in that concert were Juan Carlos Pérez, Kepa Junkera, Ruper Ordorika, Joseba Tapia, Jon Sarasua, Niko Etxart, Fermín Muguruza, Mikel Laboa, Anton Reixa (Galicia), Albert Pla (Catalonia), Patrick Vaillant (Occitania), Robert Le Gall y Youenn Le Berre de Gwendal (Bretagne), Martin Carthy (England) y Liam O´Flynn (Ireland), who at the same time sang in Euskera in return. They played 25 greatest hits, with new arrangements following the band's 25 years trajectory. This great concert took place in September of 1997 at Getxo International Rock Festival, and a Double LP and a video were recorded (25 Kantu 25 Urte).

In November of 1997, when they were on tour in South America (Uruguay and Argentina), they launched the 25th Anniversary commemorative album in the American market. The 25th anniversary tour brought the band to the most important stages, theatres and rock festivals in the world.

Oskorri launched a dozen of records in the 90s. Their international career is backed by their tours in many different
countries: Lovaina Festival (Belgium) in 1996, Badok Hamahiru in Paris (1994), and Portugal (Lisboa, Evora, Guimeraes, Coimbra) and Georgia (former URSS), both in 1991.

The 80s was a transition period, when new musicians joined the band and helped to create the characteristic sound of the band. These were also years of restless work, giving hundreds of concerts and launching many records; but at the same time they were applauded both by critics and the public and received many awards.

In spring of 1978 the band embarked upon their first of many European tours in their long professional career.

Berlin, Frankfort, Paris, Cologne, Hannover, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Brussels, Corsica, Nuremberg, Zurich... all these places made Oskorri the folk Basque band with best international exposure. Their success was guaranteed after launching a compilation album in different European countries thanks to the prestigious Folk Freak Pläne. Besides representing the Basque Country in the Counter-Eurovision Festival held in Belgium, they received numerous awards and offered many great concerts before they finally became popular.

In 1975 they signed a contract with CBS to publish the songs they had been playing in concerts during some time. The first single was immediately edited, and soon after that they began recording their first album (Gabriel Arestiren Oroimenez), formed by 10 selected songs (out of a total of 40) based on Gabriel Aresti's poetry, as a tribute to the artist. The simple melodies and instrumentations already showed the potential of the band.

Oskorri has always been "researching". Their album Hi ere Dantzari gathers traditional dance songs which otherwise were about to disappear, as they had never been recorded. The children were the target audience of two new works; Katuen Testamentua, in an effort to recover old Biscaian children songs, received a great recognition by their younger fans, and with the theatre group Kukubiltxo were offered great show full of light, colour and sound. Their second album for the little ones, Marijane Kanta Zan, was a tribute to Marijane Minaberry, a writer from Navarre, and was also performed in a show with Kukubiltxo and turned to be a great success.

But their work to bring old songs back in culture didn't stop then because Felipe, their leader, is a lover of Basque traditions and culture, and after a long researching, they gathered together hundreds of traditional songs in six live albums called Oskorri & The Pub Ibiltaria, offered by several members of the band as a "pedagogic concert" for ikastolas (schools that offer education in Basque language), schools, conservatories, etc.

For all these reasons it's worth highlighting that, after the years, the band shows great progress in technical knowledge and experience, and a clearly intention of introducing traditional musical structures, more and more implicit, trying to achieve a modern Basque sound; but without leaving behind their freshness, with an optimistic and brilliant reliability, being at the same time modern and traditional. Oskorri has a stamp, an appellation of origin.

Thirty two albums (two of them double) and the book "111 kantu" published in 1990 (with 111 songs): a long way that shows the importance of the band.