New record of the portguese Indie-Rock Sensation on LP on European Phonographic!

This album is about living your life against the odds, believing in yourself and doing right by every moment – being Quixotic, if you can view madness in a positive way,’ says Neil Leyton, the Lisbon-born songwriter and producer who founded the Lusitanian Ghosts collective with Swedish musician Micke Ghost to recast the lost chordophone violas, regional instruments of Lusitania (ancient Portugal), as the basis of their socially-charged 21st century indie folk-rock.

At turns heady, rousing and reflective, Exotic Quixotic follows Lusitanian Ghosts’ self-titled 2019 debut, an album where the traditional rock set-up of guitar, bass and drums foregrounded the near-extinct sounds of chordophones, regional string instruments some of which almost went extinct in the 20th century.

Lusitanian Ghosts was born from a desire not just to save these instrument