The new Sonifolk Compilation “Nuevo Sonido Folk” gives the name to a new movement that has come not only over Spain but over whole Europe. In the past, ethnic artists depended very much on their famous counterparts as Paul Simon (Graceland), Peter Gabriel (Realworld) or Ry Cooder (Buena Vista Social Club) to bring their music to the masses. Now the scene has become more self-confident and artists like Carlos Nuñez, The Chieftains and Berrogüetto achieved the status Popstar by playing their own root-based music.

Spain is the home of many different musical roots that were adapted in other cultures. The best example herefore is the Flamenco, but there is also the celtic music from the north of Spain and the diversity of mediterranean folkstyles coming from the south. Sonifolk presents a selection of the new spanish folkscene and invited the norwegian artists Føyk and Annbjørg Lien (licensed by Grappa) to complete this first volume.

This journey through the different regions of Spain presents fairly different ways of treating the own folkmusic. The investigative work of the young Valencian group L´Ham de Foc, that combines medieval music with the different influences coming from the mediterranean cultures; Malagüeros mixture of Rockmusic and Folk; the coexistence of Charango, bagpipes and musicians with 6 different nationalities in the band Finis Terrae from Madrid; the work on the Hardanger violin and the Nyckelharpa in the traditional music of Annbjørg Lien; the traditional catalan song material arranged only for guitar and voice from Maria Laffitte; the electronic treatment of folkmusic of the norwegian band Føyk; the cosmopolitan Flamenco of Adam del Monte; the Flamenco Fusion of Elementales; the New Age interpretation of Folkmusic from David Garrido, etc.

Nuevo Sonido Folk (The new Sound of Folk) is the name of a new movement, that works on the modernization of traditions in order to make them accessible for a general public and to guarantee its importance in the upcoming generations.