Colm Mac Con Iomaire Shares First Taste of New Album
Colm Mac Con Iomaire returns with a new album ‘The River Holds Its Breath : Tost ar an Abhainnon’ 17th May and will launch the record in Vicar St the next night, 18th May. Ahead of that, the title track is now available to listen to.
Colm Mac Con Iomaire had gone his whole life without meeting the composer Bill Whelan until he bumped into him three times in the space of a few weeks in 2016; at the National Concert Hall, at Kylemore Abbey, and then in Clifden. Both took it as a sign. At the time, Bill had reconditioned his reel-to-reel tape machine and was looking for a new project. The stars aligned.
Colm sees this record as a collection of short stories. But it can also be considered as both journal and journey, the culmination of song gathering, commissions and creations over the last few years, during which Colm has charted out tunes like nodes on a map of a broader Irish artistic universe.
There is a song inspired by paintings in the National Gallery stored in darkness but yearning for the light, a piece for the contemporary dancer Maureen Fleming, music from Colm’s score for the Oscar-nominated short film Late Afternoon, a piece for Nuala O’Connor’s documentary Keepers Of The Flame. In some ways, the record acts as a cypher through which other art can journey.
Retreating to a studio in what was once the writer Kate O’Brien’s house in Roundstone, Connemara, Colm brought in musicians Lorcan & Cillian Byrne, the Con Tempo Quartet, Colm Quearney, Bill Blackmore and Wyvern Lingo to contribute.
This is Colm’s third solo album, following on from ‘And Now The Weather’ and the debut ‘The Hare’s Corner’.
TRACKLIST
1. Introduction : Réamhrá 2. Late Afternoon: Tráthnóna Beag Aréir 3. Una Canción Para Venezuéla : Amhrán Venezuela 4. The River Holds Its Breath : Tost ar an Abhainn 5. Golden Hour : An Uair Órga 6. From the Mountain to the Sea : Ó Shliabh go Cuan 7. How To Catch a Star : Conas Breith ar Réalt 8. The Shining : Solasta 9. Old Walls : Sean Bhallaí 10. Keepers of the Flame: Caomhnóirí na Lasrach
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