WORLD MUSIC, ETHNIC CHAOS, CONTEMPORARY FOLK, UKRAINIAN FOLK
DakhaBrakha
Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv's DakhaBrakha are what happens when an avant-garde theatre director hands four Ukrainian folk singers a cello, darbuka, accordion, and didgeridoo and says go. Founded in 2004 at the Dakh Contemporary Arts Center, their self-described "ethnic chaos" layers Ukrainian melodies over Indian, Arabic, and African rhythms—intimate one moment, riotous the next. Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, WOMAD: they've…
