Niamh Dalton / David Murphy live

Niamh Dalton

Niamh Dalton is a multi-instrumentalist based in Cork City. Fiddle being her main instrument, she sits within the Irish and Old-Time fiddle traditions as well as exploring extended technique, improvisation and experimenting with pedals and cross tunings. Ana Palindrome, her main project alongside bandmates Sara Leslie & Ruairí de Búrca, combines fiddle, viola, singing, and electronics to create disorientated and hypnotic songs reflective of a dark surrealist tradition within the Irish arts. The project aims to investigate ways of borrowing rhythmic bowing techniques found in old-time fiddle music and adapting them to create drones and textures more at home in the worlds of ambient or modern experimental music than that of traditional song.

David Murphy

David Murphy takes the pedal steel guitar outside the confines of its traditional roots with frequent ventures into a range of genres, spanning Americana and folk to ambient, experimental music and film soundtracks and is best known for his work with artists such as The Lost Brothers, John Blek, Ordnance Survey, Arborist, The Delines, Willy Vlautin, M.Ward and Jolie Holland amongst others. His debut album ‘Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar’ (Rollercoaster Records) takes it from the well-worn roads of the dusty American south to a new place in contemporary Irish music. His all-instrumental debut recasts ancient Irish harp tunes and historic airs into the 21st century with the swelling, expressive and mournful sounds of the pedal steel guitar. This continues Murphy’s quest to expand the vocabulary of the instrument, taking it deeper into a world much closer to home and, for the very first time, present it in a modern Irish framework.

"Irish traditional rendered ghostly by washes of pedal steel and almost subliminal piano... widescreen and structured, like an early Celtic Ólafur Arnalds... 8/10" UNCUT

"…an intriguing proposition... very moving, at times oddly Balearic, the Hawaiian roots of his warm pitch-shifting instrument spangling through." THE GUARDIAN

"sensational... deliciously sun-drenched and weary" BBC NIGHT TRACKS

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