Seán Ó Máille
1 February 2010
Sandy Wright/Various Artists, The Songs of Sandy Wright, Navigator Recordings (Navigator 23)
1 August 2009
Andrew’s Lane Theatre, Dublin6 May 2009The latest incarnation of Somadrone is as a duo comprising its architect Neil O’Connor with Glenn Keating, both playing synthesisers. Somadrone opened for Fennesz, creating submerged tribal rhythms for the...
1 June 2009
Tesla/ LISTEN hEAR Farpoint RecordingsThe brilliance of the Quiet Club, the Cork-based ‘entity’ of Danny McCarthy and Mick O’Shea, is best apprehended live. Their CD, Tesla, is fascinating and enjoyable, but all the more so after watching...
1 April 2009
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin3 February 2009It would be all too easy to think that a gallery is the perfect place for folk musicians to play. For some, folk music is out of time, only to be preserved, commemorated, pinned like a beautiful butterfly through...
1 September 2008
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin18–20 July 2008Ports are multicultural. They are where the riches of the world arrive and dissipate. The Analog 2008 festival berthed at Grand Canal Square, and brought with it musicians from far-flung places, and songs from the...
1 July 2008
Spectre & CrownPilatus Records, PILCD-004The phrase ‘popular instrumental music’ is oxymoronic in the commercial world of chart success. Instrumental hits were frequent in the 60s and 70s but the three-minute pop song has laid waste to...
1 July 2008
Crash Ensemble, Trio Scordatura, Susan Stenger (flute)Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin23 April 2008This concert of music by Phill Niblock – the ‘forgotten minimalist’ – had the feel of a ‘happening’, spread out over the four...
1 May 2008
Liam O’Flynn (uileann pipes), Seamus Heaney (poetry)National Concert Hall, Dublin16 March 2008The Poet and the Piper was introduced by Seamus Heaney as an echo of W.B. Yeats’ St Patrick’s Day reading of poetry with music in 1934. Self-deprecatingly,...
1 May 2008
The Button Factory, Dublin29 March 2008Efterklang are a Danish post-rock band, formed in December 2000, properly millennial. This concert, in the renamed and refurbished Temple Bar Music Centre, was their second in Dublin in four months. The large crowd enjoyed...
1 March 2008
Aphasia Recordings, APHASIA 22The Sound we are now is a CD from a small, artist-run record label in Dublin, Aphasia Recordings. It springs from an interesting idea: label founders David Stalling and Anthony Kelly asked various artists to send in a piece that...
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