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Why I Started Mitxoda (Without Even Knowing I Did)

In February 2024, I started something I didn’t plan. No roadmap. No long-term strategy. Just the urge to create, intensely, honestly, and without compromise. That’s how Mitxoda was born. Not from ambition,…

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Being Free, A New Chapter for 2025

Being free means Respect Respect for others, respect for ourselves, and respect for the work we each put into building a community that uplifts and inspires. As I look ahead to this…

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Crystal Eyes, The Beautiful Things That Linger

An imaginary afternoon in Calgary, somewhere between vintage synthesizers, forgotten record stores, existential questions and the comforting feeling of being understood. By Mitxoda Somewhere in Calgary, a sound is waiting to be…

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Freedom, Fifty Songs and the Art of Slowing Down

Mitxoda Weekly #108, October 16, 2026 Some revolutions change the course of history. Others change the way we look at what we’re doing. On October 23, 1956, the Hungarian Revolution began. Seventy…

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Episode 76 : The Mic Is Back!

The microphone is back! And with it, my voice, a few stories between tracks, and, as you’ll discover, my occasionally questionable grasp of geography. We open with Rainburn, whose Indian progressive rock…

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Love from the underground

There is a particular kind of kindness in remembering something somebody told you weeks ago. SFSF remembered Maison Vide. She remembered the empty house behind the song. In a message sent from…

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Episode 75: Numbers are numbers

Seventy-five. There it is, sitting at the top of another episode of Le Salon Indie de Mitxoda. A tidy little number for something much less tidy: finding music, making room for it,…

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Apparently, we’re still making music

The indie artist’s optimism has no sensible limit. Pull up a chair. There is a particular kind of optimism in an artist returning to a song after almost twenty years. The world…

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