Field - Nocturnes No.6, 10, 7, 1, 12, 3, 8. Easter 1916. Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile. Liam Ó Maonlaí - Sí do mhamo í (impromptu) The Pogues- Poor Paddy On The Railway. The Dubliners - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. Al O'Donnell - Ned of the Hill. Paddy Hanna - Join The Army. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Full Album) The Redneck Manifesto. Monochrome - I Am The Cosmos.
Emakousma - Island (album stream) listen: Sunridden. Monaghan virtuoso. An instrumental album of atmospherics through guitar and piano from the Monaghan man.
Expressive instrumental guitar melodies, fingerplucked treated string notes, ambient waves of noise, piano chords lumbering into minimal arrangements and terse dispositions. Those are the kinds of things to expect from Island, the debut album from illustrator Barry Quinn. The Monaghan man’s music is less about creating a beautiful noise (though there is much of that here) and more about creating moods, sometimes uneasy like ‘Hoof And Horn’, or discombobulating atmosphere on ‘Evening Begin’ or the abstract ‘Return Home’. That doesn’t mean there’s not positivity throughout: the fingerpicked guitar of ‘Sunridden’ is flighty and engaging, ‘Why The Blacksmith’s Face’ adds some John Fahey-esque guitar sounds to its beautiful middle section and ‘Can’t Reach The Pedals’ is akin to overhearing the heated conversation of strangers in a pub snug.
Cian Nugent & The Cosmos, “Grass Above My Head” Light Snow by Meltybrains? Lecs Luther Dia Dhuit.