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Folknery
describe themselves as 'Ukrainian free folk,' which sounds as if the
band from Kiev, Ukraine, are about to blow your head off Albert
Ayler-style. On Folknery's album Useful Things, the band does expand the
palette of Ukrainian folk music: there's plenty of structure to their
music, but a gleeful kitchen-sink abandon so that experimentation and
genre-clash unite in soulful grooves. The story of Folknery mirrors the
music's off-kilter approach: this is a band whose name emerged as a
mash-up between William Faulkner and folk music, the idea for which came
straight out of a dream. Volodymyr Muliar and Yaryna Kvitka founded
Folknery in 2009. Muliar was fresh out of his experiences drumming for
various Ukrainian rock bands, and he was delving into folk singing with
another Ukrainian group called "Rozhanytsia." The two enjoyed not only
music, but also bicycling – and in fact, they continue to conduct
wide-ranging cycling trips that have evolved into excursions across
Ukraine, and other countries, in order to find folk music and record
living singers. Augmented by another member of Rozhanytsia, vocalist
Yulia Sovershenna, the group continued to incorporate world music
influences and diverse instrumentation. Together with percussionist
Roman Sharkevych and guitarist Dmytro Sorokin, Folknery also utilizes
accordions, African djembe, field-recorded sound effects, and
hurdy-gurdy. From: https://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/folknery-16.shtml
