Music
Friday, 1 December 8pm "Damn it was amazing, sublime, beautiful. Audience went crazy. They are just spectacular. My 5th show with them. It was a true pleasure. Magnificent.”
DakhaBrakha Theatr Bryn Terfel
Isabel Soffer, Globalfest, Live Sounds, New York City
£15/£13 DakhaBrakha is a world music quartet from Kiev, Ukraine. Reflecting fundamental elements of sound and soul, Ukrainian “ethno-chaos” band DakhaBrakha create a world of unexpected new music.
The name DakhaBrakha means “give/take” in the old Ukrainian language. Accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, the quartet’s astonishingly
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powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a trans-national sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. There will be a Q&A session with DakaBrakha after the performance, led by Lisa Jên of folk band 9bach.