"Nick Castro's Turkish Folk Delight
The sound is warm and viscous, the thick tones of cello merging with tabla-style drums and meeting mystic minor-key choruses. 'Sun Songs' is the opening track to Nick Castro and the Poison Tree's Further From Grace, now out on Strange Attractors Audio. Its unearthly vocals — that's Josephine Foster in the background — and fevered flute and strings, set up the pan-worldly, melancholic tone of Castro's second album. Like the Incredible String Band and countless followers, Castro finds common ground among a variety of folk traditions — British, American, Middle Eastern, and, most particularly, Turkish. 'It's just a strange thing, how the rhythms of the Middle East really fit into lots of different kinds of folk music, I think,' he said in a recent phone interview. 'It's weird, but I guess they both have a swing rhythm to them. They just fit together perfectly.'"
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