"A bit of a multi-cultural supergroup featuring Sam Karpienia from Marseille on mandocello and voice, Ulas Özdemir from south-east Turkey on baglama, cura and voice, and Iranian percussionist Bijan Chemirani. Karpienia is a cult figure in Occitan music (...), Özdemir has been a key producer for exemplary Turkish label Kalan and worked live with numerous artists including Niyaz and Kayhan Kalhor; Chemirani is from the celebrated family trio ... Forabandit's original aim was to link the music of the wandering Occitan and Anatolian "asik" troubadours, and on this second album the songs make connections between the ports of Marseille and Istanbul ... For a trio, their sound is massive: they have a way of recording acoustic stringed instruments and hand drum percussion in those regions that is unlike anything that relatively weedy British folk productions ever achieve. Add to that a hugely dynamic delivery - traditionally based music with the energy of rock - andtake-no-prisonersvocals, and the result is truly exhilarating".
