Sons of Burlap
Perhaps Sons of Burlap could seem, at first glance, a rather unlikely troop of minstrels. Their music is, not unlike the musicians themselves, a mixture of pretty old and relatively new. They combine traditional instruments, fiddle, flute, mandolins with overdriven electric guitar - while the crashing drums and solid bass are the sheepdogs that keep the flock together. Loud folk/rock music with influences from eastern Europe and beyond sort of describe what you are about to hear but cannot prepare you for the blast of energy that is so difficult not to dance to.
Joshua Burnside
Northern Irish experimental folk songwriter and producer Joshua Burnside is something of a regional anomaly. With a brooding, powerful sound echoing artists of places afar and time long gone, his enthralling craft defies local comparison in striving towards an aesthetic as much as visual as it is sonic. Balanced with a diverse palette of sounds, Burnside deftly blends alt-folk and elements of the Irish folk song tradition with South American rhythms and Eastern European influences, whilst introducing synthetic and found-sounds, synths loops and crunching beats to create a stormy world that shifts and swirls perspective like a lingering lucid dream.