Published:
May 3, 2016
Brannten Schnüre is an experimental dark folk group out of Würzburg, Germany, with Christian Schoppik composing and playing all the music and Katie Rich whispering, reciting and singing. Together they make astoundingly beautiful folk with a rich instrumentation leaning towards the atonal spectrum.
Christian plays the accordeon and in some songs guitar and flute. Inspired by hierophants like Nový Svět and David Jackman, solemn song fragments (a lot of old greek rembetiko-recordings) are modified and looped, with additional instruments and voices being integrated later on. His music has been described as “surreal folkcollage” and “german hauntology”.