endless summer

Crystal Fighters aren’t the typical band we cover at Anglophenia, they are evocations of endless summer. Formed in Spain’s Basque country from a ragtag international group of musicians, they are rarely billed as a British band. Perhaps it’s because they don’t really sound “British”: they traffic in a sun-dappled California optimism. It’s like a mixture of old folk music from the Basque country and other places of the world and modern electronic dance music, which was a combination which came about because of our original singer, Eleanor Fletcher, whose grandfather was from the Basque country, and he left her a leather-bound book, which she then brought to us. It showed us all sorts of insights into Basque culture and Basque mythology, which we then combined with the dance music we were already creating.

(article by BBCamerica)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JPm7npkvQ