# LUSITANIAN GHOSTS Announce second album ‘Exotic-Quixotic’, preview ‘Soul Deranium’ single

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/lusitanian-ghosts-announce-second-album-exotic-quixotic-preview-soul-deranium-single/
- Published: 2021-09-16T13:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**Alternative Folk-Rock outfit Lusitanian Ghosts announce second album ‘Exotic-Quixotic’,
preview ‘Soul Deranium’ single**

_“Lusitanian Ghosts impressively channel tools of the past to create a beautiful
sonic vision for us listeners now. Innovative in their use of traditional instruments
to make clearly modern pop-rock, this music is upbeat, quirky, feels familiar and
is catchy as hell. The fact that this is entirely performed with traditional instruments
is mind-boggling”_ ~ **[Big Takeover Magazine](http://bigtakeover.com/news/SongPremiereSoulDeraniumbyLusitanianGhosts)**

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**Photo by Joana Negrão**

Portuguese-Canadian-Swedish indie folk rock collective [**Lusitanian Ghosts**](http://lusitanianghosts.net/)
will release their second album[** ‘Exotic Quixotic’**](https://lusitanianghosts.bandcamp.com/album/exotic-quixotic)****
in November, recorded on analogue tape and mixed by [**Sebastian Muxfeldt**](https://muxi.world/discography)**(
Elbow, Peter Doherty, Teenage Fanclub) **at Hamburg’s [**Clouds Hills Studios**](https://cloudshill.com/)
and featuring ancient Portuguese chordophones and other European string instruments.

Ahead of this, they present the[ **‘Soul Deranium’**](https://lusitanianghosts.bandcamp.com/track/soul-deranium)
single – a vibrant taster of the sonic prism through which they present ancient 
sounds in the 21st Century.

Re-casting heritage folk violas into rock and roll songs, the collective writes 
from a socio-political perspective about building a better world, creating songs
from and for the heart and the mind. Their compositions mix indie songwriting with
traditional Portuguese instruments like the Beiroa, Campaniça, Braguesa, Terceirense
and Amarantina guitars – or violas as they are called in Portugal: each with its
own string arrangements and tunings.

Founded in 2015, Lusitanian Ghosts are **Neil Leyton, Mikael Lundin (a.k.a. Micke
Ghost), João Sousa, Omiri, O Gajo, Abel Beja, Janne Olson **and other artists that
come and go within the collective. The genesis of the band happened when Neil Leyton
brought Micke Ghost a Viola Amarantina from Lisbon to Stockholm, and their subsequently
performance in Portugal, opening for Primitive Reason on the Ericeira beach.

Their **[debut self-titled album](https://open.spotify.com/album/0qAHyIG8A3a7Ppvq8U4CRv?si=y4RjWkskRXSdYCOlZ-lbuA&dl_branch=1)**,
recorded at Portugal’s [**Canoa Studios**](https://www.canoastudios.com/)** **and
produced by [**Ricardo Ferreira**](http://www.ricardoferreiramusic.com/), was a 
successful experiment in mixing the various regional Lusitanian (Portuguese) chordophones
with what has come to be the band’s unique brand of singer-songwriter rock n roll.

The feature documentary film** [‘Lusitanian Ghosts: Making Of the Lusitanian Ghosts debut album – Chordophone Rock n Roll’](https://youtu.be/KwX3FHEl-cI)**
elucidates on why most of these Portuguese ancient instruments have become forgotten–
almost extinct – over time. These historic instruments… they are the real Lusitanian
Ghosts.

Whereas the first album features ancient Portuguese chordophones over a basic rock
and roll setup of guitar, bass and drums, they’ve now totally done away with the
guitars for the new album. This experimental folk-rock singer-songwriter record 
has only chordophones – the violas Amarantina, Braguesa, Terceira and Campaniça –
along with bass and drums. Even the snare was replaced on many songs with the Adufe,
a Portuguese square drum.

“Micke sang some great Swedish mambos over this tune, and asked me whether “Deranium”
was actually a word in English. “Sure, why not?” I replied. If Marc Bolan can sing
about Futuristic Dragons and Cosmic Dancers, I wanna open the album with a  reverie
song, about the killing of an evil President of the United States whilst engaging
in ludicrous amounts of gun totin’ self-indulgent passion. All made up, of course.
We don’t believe in killing anyone, most of the time. Outcomes, outcomes,” says **
Neil Leyton**.

“I guess after committing a crime that serious some kind of soul deranium must occur.
It’s a great opening track for the album. Sets the tone just right,” says **Micke
Ghost.**

“This is all Chordophone violas from Portugal – namely the viola Amarantina, Braguesa,
Campaniça and Terceira, played by the Lusitanian Ghosts collective including Canadian-
Portuguese artist Neil Leyton, Micke Ghost (the first Swede to play the viola Amarantina!),
Vasco Ribeiro Casais aka OMIRI (Portugal), Abel Beja (USA/Portugal, viola Terceira
from the Azores), João Sousa on drums (sometimes replacing the snare with the Portuguese
square drum Adufe) and Jan-Eric Olson on bass. But not just bass! Janne borrowed
O Gajo’s viola Campaniça for some extra dark licks. Chordophone rock n roll, Alt-
Folk, Urban-Country-Folk, however it gets labelled what should come across are the
humanist messages in these songs.”

‘Soul Deranium’ is out now, available everywhere online, including [**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4hAly1SkX6rGWvbS3O6IVJ)**,**
[ **Apple Music**](http://www.applemusic.com/lusitanianghosts) and [**Bandcamp**](https://lusitanianghosts.bandcamp.com/album/exotic-quixotic),
where the full ‘Exotic Quixotic’ album, slated for release on November 19, is already
available for pre-order via the [**European Phonographic**](https://europeanphonographic.com/)****
label. No six strings were harmed in the making of this record.

**ALBUM CREDITS**
Neil Leyton: Lead vocalsMikael Lundin: viola Amarantina, backing
vocals, bass, Mellotron, viola Campaniça. Lead vocals on ‘Exotic Quixotic’ and ‘
Hometown’João “Johnny” Sousa: drums and AdufeVasco Ribeiro Casais: viola BraguesaAbel
Beja: viola TerceiraJan-Eric Olsson: bass and viola CampaniçaAll songs by Neil Leyton
and Mikael Lundin aka Micke GhostPublished by Lusitanian Music PublishingRecorded
at Clouds Hill Studios, HamburgEngineered and Mixed by Sebastian MuxfeldtProduced
by Neil Leyton and Mikael LundinMastered at Soundgarden by Florian SillerCover Illustration
by Johan Lindberg Brusewitz

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**TRACK LIST**
01. Soul Deranium02. Never Less Than Lonely03. All the Sounds04. 
Exotic Quixotic05. Older and Colder06. Living One Life (Just Ain’t Enough These 
Days)07. For the Wicked08. Lisbon Calling09. She Couldn’t Jump10. Live the Flea

**FOR FANS OF: **Nick Cave, The Waterboys, Xixa, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry

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