Brooklyn-based queer and femme people metalers Zelenaya are asserting their new album, Folks Songs, out April 26, and are past stoked to unleash the third single from that file, “Spod Tego Jawora,” with us. Folks Songs is the band’s debut album.
When listening to Zelenya, anticipate haunting Japanese European affect, sludge, doom, even loss of life metallic. That is one thing you may anticipate to come back out of Europe quite than Brooklyn, and that makes it all of the extra thrilling and compelling.
“Spod Tego Jawora” interprets to”Underneath This Sycamore Tree” in Polish, and it’s heavy and lilting on the identical time. The band say in regards to the observe:
“A tune from the Polish mountain highlanders within the southern area of Podhale, on the Czech/Slovak border, this tune references notorious people hero/Robin Hood character Jánošík, who’s urging a girl to drink the water from the river—not an unusual trope, whereupon the individual supplied to will normally refuse the drink, claiming that it’ll have some form of destructive impact on them (on this case, we suspect, falling in love with Jánošík). This one’s within the Highlander dialect, and somewhat laborious to determine (so this translation will not be exact), nevertheless it is stuffed with charming fiddle melodies that make for an anthemic energy ballad. Now we have tried to respect the Podhalian style’s hovering vocal melodies, key modifications, and bouncing rhythms whereas sustaining our typical heft, sneaking in a head-nod to metallic progenitors Black Sabbath, and concluding the tune with a loss of life metallic beat-down.”
There’s lots to unpack there, however even in the event you aren’t acquainted with the nuances of Ukrainian people music, it is a enjoyable and heavy tune. The band have earned a reputation for themselves by mixing psychological sensibilities with people music fro Poland, Georgia, Sebria, and different Japanese European areas, all with a weirdo, femme, and of their phrases “witchy” vibe and a not in direction of doom. We are able to’t wait to listen to the complete file.
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