Crystal Fighters: Bringing Basque the beats

The UK's Crystal Fighters are reinventing Spanish folk. How?Crystal Fighters aren't Spanish, but you could be forgiven for assuming they were. The title of their debut album, Star of Love, is an acronym for sol, Spanish for sun. The music within is based on a mix of contemporary dubstep and techno beats and Basque folk melodies. It uses traditional Basque instruments such as the txalaparta (imagine a wooden xylophone played by two people), the danbolin (a sort of snare drum), and the txistu (a p...

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