Sample From the Worlds of 'Junk Funk' and Honey-Gathering Folk Musicians

"Stripped back and powerful trance-inducing Baul songs, playing their one-string ektara and thumping on the duggi (bass drum), with voices raised in ecstasy to celebrate the secrets of the human body."

—World Music Network

"The band plays instruments crafted out of recycled materials. Their guitars are made from tin-cans and bicycle wire, and rattle melodiously alongside the fuzzed ring of one-string fiddles and the thud and boom of their drums. Atop the mix, swinging unison vocals bring to mind the hugely popular choral tradition of Lesotho."

—World Music Network

"Etran Finatawa comes together because the nomadic peoples, as a whole, are actually threatened — their lifestyle is threatened. All the songs are about this disappearing lifestyle. It's a plea for tolerance and it's a plea for the various peoples of the area to come together and live together."

—Producer Colin Bass (NPR Music)