“★★★★ Stunningly original traditional folk.” – Daryl Easlea, Record Collector

"Awfully beautiful, terribly refreshing, absurdly sad." – François Gorin, Télérama

“Spellbinding.” – Dexter Bentley, Resonance FM

What's left when everything is taken away from us – our tools, technology and archives, even our homes, communities and citizenship? The answer is: what we have learned by heart, what we can do with our bodies — our voices, hands and feet.

Using techniques from body percussion, tap dance, overtone singing and physical theatre, performance duo Lunatraktors explore Anglo-Celtic folk ballads to rediscover folk music as a queer space of personal and political transformation. Weaving the tragedy and comedy of these traditional tales with hypnotic acoustic percussion and harmonies, Lunatraktors create a genre-defying, "spellbinding" performance on the borders of music, theatre and live art.

Combining the percussive and choreographic talents of Carli Jefferson with the 3+ octave range and haunting overtones of nonbinary folk singer Clair Le Couteur, Lunatraktors use the basic ingredients of body and voice to conjure up expansive, unexpected spaces. The duo strip folk down and rebuild it with influences from clowning, cabaret, art punk, flamenco and trip-hop. Lunatraktors are equally at home improvising with hands, feet and voices on a soap box, or filling a festival stage with custom drum kit, live loops and analogue synths.

Contact: hello[at]lunatraktors.space