LUNATRAKTORS – British Outlandish Folktronica Duo Impress With Their New Must Experience Album
21 June 2025
Artists: LUNATRAKTORS
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.
Album: QUILTING POINTS: INVITATIONS AND OPEN CALLS 2019–2025
Out now on CD and digitally via Bandcamp.
The bizarre duo invite audiences into a live remix of sonic activism
and archival exploration, stitched with queer joy and resistance.
Inspired by the process of retrieving their own archival recordings from a corrupted hard drive, the duo’s fourth self-released album returns to their original obsessions: creative anachronism, the resonance of spaces, and research-based improvisation. Quilting Points stitches together seven years of experimental sound compositions, reimagined traditional songs and remixed live performances in chronological order.
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Rooted in their self-named genre broken folk, the project examines what it means to create in response to the endless cycles of despair and injustice – to gather, despite it all, and absorb sound as vibration, as shared memory. A standout thread in this project is the duo’s ongoing commitment to trans rights and disability justice, which pulses through their music and their wider performance ethos.
TUTV: No rock, no pop, no punk, no metal, no whatever traditional genre except
for folk, then again not the traditional, familiar folk vibes, we all know. To my ears Lunatraktors make/create at times a sort of modern-day medieval music, at times outlandish near a-capella chants, at times a sort of stripped to the bone one-artist
choir gospel sound energized with spellbinding vocals.
You really should discover and experience the Lunatraktors‘ highly
intriguing sonic universe. It’s everything you (probably) never heard.
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