Ancestral Archaeology: Nina Pixel (Live)

Nina Pixel averts the perils of lapsing into inauthentic fakelore by building her music with, rather than on, the ethnographic riches of Slovakia. With the eagerness of a genuine archeological prospector, Ancestral Archaeology invokes the always present but seldom perceived linchpins of folklore culture: the desperate clinging to the memory of pre-Christian paganism and witchcraft, songs with narratives of beautiful innate wyrdness that is utterly unfit for mass culture, and superstition as the most serious longing for the balance between sense and irrationality. Suppose we acknowledge the truism of folklore as the shared way of expression in rural society. In that case, the techno music on Ancestral Archeology proposes that, in the urban society of ours, this role is served by raves.