Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

14 May 2024

Artists: LUNATRAKTORS (UK/Ireland)

Who: A collaboration between choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her) and vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them) that started in 2017 with an apocalyptic question “What’s left when we’ve lost everything?“. The project strips down folk
to the basics of rhythm and voice. They’re British but live in Ireland.

Albums (so far): This Broken Folk (2019), The Missing Star (2021)
and Yulatraktors – Solstice Wyrd (2023).

New single: OSS GIRLS

This track is inspired by the traditional Padstow May Song (Road 305). ‘Oss Girls’ is about overturning and rebalancing this tradition, using folklore to build the world we want to live in. We wanted to make something that gives the wild, anarchic feeling of walking through a parade of rowdy revellers, passing drummers and dancers, being caught up in the throng.

TUTV: If you want to wake up in a trance, this ghostly folk choir chant will do the job.
Oss Girls is bizarre and arresting, magnetic and frolicsome, kooky and spooky, otherworldly and entertaining Go straight to the zany video clip below, move in mysterious ways and UNITE with Lunatraktors around the tree.

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