The chicken abortion
In the brilliant Spanish movie Las Niñas (2020) by Pilar Palomero young adolescent girls in Zaragoza start to resist the oppressive authoritarianism still left in Spain, fifteen or so years after the death of Franco (I remember it very well, having traveled through Spain at that time, the fear people still had for anyone wearing a uniform).
The film is tense and suffocating at times, though certainly not without humor and levity. It starts with the girls singing without sound, just mouthing their song and at the end of the film they finally found their voice, singing with sound.
Then the end credits start with some heavy, somber piano music and when that ends, liberation comes in the form of the song above, El Aborto De La Gallina, like the punk-rock cavalary arrived, that’s how it feels.
I looked up the artist and discovered the anarchic punk-rock of Zaragozan singer Manolo Kabezabolo, a wall of guitar music accompanying Kabezabolo’s sardonic, somewhat bullyish voice. He sings like a drunk disobedient child, his songs resemble children’s melodies. Kabezabolo is quirky and recalcitrant, I love it. Listen to his 1995 debut album ¡Ya hera ora! here. (PB)
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