Following on from the success of ‘Into Air’, the highly anticipated second album release by critically acclaimed musician/curator Mary Barnecutt, under moniker ‘Mary & The Pigeons’, hits the soundwaves on the 1st March 2024.
‘Like Water’ is series of cello and atmospheric-based laments, including songs about traffic, lakes, rain and laundry. Drawing from her experience as a musician and creative writer Mary has imagined a vast and varied soundscape from piano and orchestral string arrangements to samples of page-turning and her hoover.
Working with Ber Quinn in Sonic Studios in Stoneybatter, they have created a soundworld reminiscent of Julia Houlter, Katie Kim, Nico, Owen Pallet, Liz Frazer, Hildur Gudnadottir and PJ Harvey.
Mary & The Pigeons celebrate an album launch show at the Fumbally Stables, 8pm, 1st March. Tickets on sale via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mary-the-pigeons-album-launch-tickets-807612289097
Purchase Mary & The Pigeons new album ‘Like Water’ on Bandcamp:
https://maryandthepigeons.bandcamp.com/album/like-water
Mary Barnecutt is a Dublin-based musician born in Belfast and grew up in Hull.
She works with a wide variety of artistic and educational projects, writing and arranging music for film, theatre, dance productions, and has worked with artists such as Liz Roche, Justine Doswell, Amanda Coogan, Inni-K and Adrian Crowley. She was cellist and vocalist with Teać Damsa in their world-touring production of Loch Na hEala 2017- 2020. In 2020 she was nominated with poet Nell Regan for an O’Bhéal poetry-film award in for their poetry-film collaboration project, Eavesdrop. eavesdrop.ie.
She is concert programmer of the weekly Sundays at Noon concert series in the Hugh Lane Gallery, www.hughlane.ie, and co-director of Spike Dublin’s alternative cello festival. www.spikecellofest.com. 2019 created the improvised music show for children, String Play with her sister Kathrine Barnecutt for the Ark/IMC.
She produces, records and releases music on her own label, Sharkwoman records.
Reviews for Into Air :
“…a lush collection that sounds organic and occasionally magical.”
Lauren Murphy, Irish Times ****
“Very fine album alert – ‘Into Air’ is a surprise and absolute pleasure. Go seek, buy, listen!” @Tony Clayton-Lea