Do you feel like you are a part of a longer tradition of British folk music?

Benedict Salter: I think if you zoom into those last three words they go on forever and ever, and if you went searching for it you’d never find it. But at the same time I do because I really love it. Whatever that tradition is, how it looks and sounds, probably doesn’t exist outside my imagination though.

Kitty Hall: Folk music told people’s stories through song and at some point that changed and I’m not sure what people think folk really is anymore. The folk element in our music is mainly the storytelling element, and the use of unplugged acoustic instrumentation, but most music we hear now originally comes from some kind of folk, the music of the people, if it's lyrical. I don’t see us as part of a wider tradition outside of that.

How does the visual side of the band relate to your music?

Benedict Salter: It’s all spinning around in the same vortex. Sometimes images become songs and songs become images. It’s never planned that way though it just happens.

Tell us about the Kelora live show.

Kitty Hall: At the moment the two of us are singing both with guitars and CDJ controllers. Sometimes we might have some friends playing extra instruments with us and laser projections.

Benedict Salter: We try and make it go from quite extreme and saturated to very quiet, whispery and close. Sometimes our friend Florence plays with us but more recently we’ve just played as a duo. The live shows we’ve put on have lots of different visual things going on like lasers and holograms etc, in general we want to make people who are there feel something and try to dissolve reality of the room somehow.

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