Milkweed + Sourdure

Milkweed

The enigmatic British folk duo Milkweed ranks among the most captivating projects around right now, alongside the likes of Shovel Dance Collective, Brìghde Chaimbeul, ØXN and Lankum.

For the past three years, Milkweed have been honing a singular formula: taking existing source material — a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on Bronze Age human remains, or more recently Thomas Kinsella’s translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge — and feeding it through a shredder built from lo-fi production and experimental folk music.

Banjo, dissonant guitar, warped magnetic tape and a mouth full of ghosts: Milkweed keeps the ultra-haunted diary of unwholesome folk across the ages. What they themselves call slacker trad blends traditional folk, freak folk, dub and spoken word, wrapped in a lo-fi aesthetic entirely their own.

The duo lands on Wednesday May 6 to present their brand new album Remscéla, out on Broadside Hacks Recordings. Daniel S. Evans, one guest member of the Shovel Dance Collective, will be joining us for this concert!

Soudure

Rooted in the traditional music of France’s Massif Central region, the new songs from Franco-Occitan solo artist Soudure freely borrow elements from Eastern music. They offer a generous and respectful invitation to build unexpected bridges between distant musical worlds. Carried by a voice that is more raw than ever, these bittersweet songs tackle intimate and political subjects, evoking a nova cançon occitana that has swapped folk guitars for electronic machinery.

A new creation in partnership with GMEA – Centre National de Création Musicale, l’Inconnue and le Confort Moderne.