Wildbirds & Peacedrums

“Blues as you’ve never heard it before is probably the best way to describe the extraordinary music of Swedish duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums. An amalgam of clattering drums, exotic instrumentation and wild scat singing, they veer between the controlled cacophony of Tim Buckley, the playful kookiness of Mary Margaret O’Hara and Bjork at her most otherwordly.”
Yorkshire Evening Post

“Wildbirds & Peacedrums are one of those rare resounding instant keepers. This is truly a non-cliché fresh bold and dextrous power in a way that do waves along our spines … Lacking a better comparison, Wildbirds & Peacedrums are as if Laurie Anderson was a great sexy sweaty polar bear or a cavewoman: esque raw & hairy but gentle and warm fist. The duo started in 2005 and has since spread their fantastic and special music from the stage and through a couple of self-produced CD-R’s. Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin build their music on vocals and drums and then expanded and developed it with some help from electronic devices and other instruments such as the sitar and the glockenspiel. A perfect mix of spiritual pop, free-blues and raw soul music makes this band one of the most interesting in Sweden today.”
www.nordjazz.com

“…Employing only Mariam Wallentin’s bewitching voice and Andreas Werliin’s primal, cannibal island’esque drumming, this is a spell binding and intoxicating adventure. Were melody a gymnastic discipline, Wallentin would be Olympian.

lt would be lazy and perhaps a little trite to draw parallels to Jeff Buckley at his most beguiling, but I just have done and without wanting to detract from what is an evening stealing performance, the parallel is an enduring one. The sonic marriage of fiercely hypnotic rhythm and octave mocking vocal is only occasionally coloured by additional instrumentation and recent single Doubt Hope perfectly surmises the lush/stark argument that defines the Wildbirds sound … Wildbirds & Peacedrums feel like the moment at family function when the disco starts and the bar opens – an absolute and joyous release …”
Antony Harrison/www.angryape.com