DakhaBrakha were just fantastic last night. It was my first visit to the Atwood Music Hall and I have to say they've got a nice little venue there. I was on the main floor and the sound was great as were the sightlines.
I had never heard DakhaBrakha's music before and it was absolutely entrancing. They probably get lumped into the ethnic or world music category because they are Ukrainian and sing in their native tongue instead of English but I'd describe what I heard last night as dark stoner folk. Trance-like beats adorned with wonderful harmony vocals (that brought the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble to mind) and flourishes from electric guitar, accordion, and, in once instance, a Jew's harp.
The animations on screen in back were really neat too. Slavic and psychedelic, the visual style was really beautiful. I'd look at the screen one minute to find something and then the next time I peeked the images had morphed into something different yet with traces of the previous picture.
A bit of one of my favorite songs of the night, "Becha" (I think), was posted this morning.
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