The musical collaboration between the celebrated Swedish folk music violinist Sara Parkman and the acclaimed spectralist composer Maria W Horn, together they explore the rituals of grief and the musical phenomenology of death. Maria and Sara’s musical relationship dates back to playing in the same teenage band in their hometown of Härnösand in Ångermanland, Sweden. In making Funeral Folk, they return to this shared background exploring everything from sacred songs, spectral music and black metal to folk melodies from their home region. As a part of the process, they learned lamentation techniques from Finnish Karelia, used for expressing personal and collective grief and sung at funerals to guide the deceased on their last journey. The music features varied instrumentation, including synths, zithers, hurdy gurdy, guitars and mellotrons, as well as voices and rusty cowbells. They are joined in their live performances by Mats Erlandsson on guitar and zither.