Milkweed + Sourdure

Milkweed

Milkweed describes its style as slacker-trad, which is both true and insufficient. For the past three years, Milkweed has been refining a formula: take existing material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on Bronze Age human remains, and more recently Thomas Kinsella’s austere masterful translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cut up the words, and run them through a shredder made of lo-fi production and experimental folk music.

At first glance, their musical concerns are transatlantic: they follow the rich creative line that connects traditional British music to the songs and tunes of the eastern United States. In reality, their horizon is global and rooted in time immemorial, with prehistoric influences reverberating in a troubled and troubling modern era. The result is music that is difficult to classify, but which ricochets between haunting folk and disconcerting hauntological experimentation.

Additional guests on the date (instruments TBC – these are two members of the Shovel Dance Collective):

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.