“[T]here is a thread that connects all folk music, whether Greek, Celtic, Japanese, or whatever. You can find these connections from so many different parts of the world, yet at the same time, their music sounds very, very different… As [Béla] Bartók noted, there’s a human connection between all these musics that you can detect and there’s a tangibility to that.“ - Mat Maneri
“I feel like I’m entering a lost world that can show me so many things. And when we approach them, a lot of our jazz experience and experiences with improvised music come into play. We bring everything to the table. Grooves. Non-grooves. Ideas. Emotions. All the people that influenced us and all of those things we took from them are thrown at these songs...” - Lucian Ban
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