{"id":11030,"date":"2017-03-21T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/south-x-lullaby-dakhabrakha\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:51:00","slug":"south-x-lullaby-dakhabrakha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/south-x-lullaby-dakhabrakha\/","title":{"rendered":"South X Lullaby: DakhaBrakha"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lars Gotrich<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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To call what DakhaBrakha<\/a> does “folk music” completely misses a world of inspiration and sound, both here on Earth and perhaps elsewhere. The mostly-acoustic, utterly unique Ukrainian band mixes traditions from its homeland, but goes wide too, with West African rhythms and Indian drones to create a wild, thrilling texture (especially<\/a>live<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Late at night, we asked DakhaBrakha to bring its cello, keyboard, accordion \u2013 and tall, wool hats! \u2014 to the balcony of the Hilton Austin hotel overlooking Austin, Texas. They played “Kolyskova” from 2010’s Light<\/em>, but the band only ever calls it “Lullaby.” It’s a quiet, contemplative song that the band says is a “connecting of several lullabies” with “philosophical lyrics that [say] we have time for everything \u2014 time to laugh and cry, time to live and die.”<\/p>\n

SET LIST<\/h5>\n