Official music video for the lead single of the upcoming EP from Folkatron - ‘Mais c’est quoi maman?’. 10 musicians, 6 days and 4 folktronica tracks from scratch.
Eleno Kerko
Arranged by:
Dan Abrahams - guitar and double bass player from Sheffield now living in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lauren Spiceley - fiddle, piano and accordion player based in Oxford, England.
Nils Peschanski - pianist and electronic musician, based in Paris, France.
An instrumental arrangement of a traditional Macedonian song learnt from Dan’s friend, Croatian singer Erik Balija. Erik says it's a love song from father to daughter. Dan learned the song while accompanying Erik for a concert in beautiful Istria, on the coast of Croatia.
Folkatron is a new project from Upcycled Sounds, an independent sound production team based between Oxford and Paris. It brings together young folk and electronic musicians together for a week to produce experimental arrangements of traditional folk music.
The first edition was in Paris last December. 10 musicians from different countries, who’d never played together before, spent 6 days choosing, arranging, performing and recording the tracks. Each day would start with a musical warm up game and end with a late night jam, with many hours of intense arranging and production sessions in between. Folkatron is all about experimental production, so there was lots of time spent trying new production techniques and going on sample collecting expeditions in the outskirts of Paris. Samples on the lead single alone include shop tills, a coffee plunger, car doors, squeaky trolleys, cars going under a bridge, a chorus of Bodhrán beaters on a Parisian wall and a child asking her mother ‘mais c’est quoi maman? [but what is it mama?]’, which became the EP title.
Folkatron 2017 is:
Dan Abrahams - Guitar
Rémi Allain - Double bass & guitar
Philippe Boudot - Drums & percussion
Hannah Jacobs - Keyboards & accordion
Nicholas O’Brien - Guitar
Jack Ó hAonghusa - Whistle & flute
Nils Peschanski - Electronic percussion
Lauren Spiceley - Violin
Martha Wiltshire - Cello
Joe Woods - Guitar
Recorded and mixed by
Nicholas O'Brien
Produced by
Hannah Jacobs and Nicholas O'Brien, of Upcycled Sounds
The full EP will be released on the first day of Folkatron 2018 - June 15th. More at upcycledsounds.eu/folkatron
