Lunatraktors and Cloudshoes

secret woodland location near Canterbury
Sunday 15th July 2018

"Broken folk" duo Lunatraktors were suggested to me by Katrina's Canadian artist friend Susan, shortly before she left Whitstable to head back to Canada. Great suggestion, and a perfect pairing with Conrad "Cloudshoes" Singh. Incredible dynamics, harmonies, percussion, character acting, angry tap dancing, semi-performative bickering, archival song selection... the song based on lines from Ecclesiastes was utterly spellbinding. Conrad played a wildly eclectic set, including an old folksong about hop-picking in Kent, Beefheart's "Orange Claw Hammer", some psychedelic electric guitar jamming through my little Vox busking amp, some slide resonator guitar ambience, "Go Away From My Window", a Bob-Dylan-inspired masked "one-note dance" (you'd have to have been there!) and some of Conrad's own songs from the recorded Cloudshoes oeuvre (at least four albums deep).

Mr. Cloudshoes and I sat up jamming late around the fire (no recording) and then had a pedal-harmonium-and-saz jam in a shed the next morning before he took off back to Bristol. Wowowowow!