Folkatron Sessions 1: Mais c’est quoi maman?

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1.	Hares on the Mountain / Squealer 04:14	info	buy track
2.	Dansen Ungdom 03:57	info	buy track
3.	Martin Wynne's No. 2 / Teampall An Ghleanntáin 04:45	info	buy track
4.	Eleno Kerko 05:13	info	buy track

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‘Mais c’est quoi maman?’ is the first EP created through Upcycled Sounds' Folkatron Sessions project, in 2017. 10 musicians, 6 days and 4 experimental folk tracks from scratch.

Folkatron is a 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, December 2017. 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.

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released June 15, 2018

Recorded and mixed by Nicholas O’Brien, of Upcycled Sounds. Produced by Nicholas O’Brien and Hannah Jacobs, of Upcycled Sounds.
Artwork by Claudia Roma O'Brien.

Musicians:
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

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Remorae Oxford, UK

Remorae are a collective of folk and electronic musicians who bonded over a love of ‘genre-bending’ [Folk Radio UK] folk music, who began life as an Upcycled Sounds experimental recording residency project, Folkatron Sessions.
Their debut album came out at the end of 2020, and has been featured by Songlines Magazine, BBC R2, BBC R3, BBC 6 Music and Folk Radio. Signed to Upcycled Sounds Records. ... more

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