Features
The Score: classical and contemporary news
This issue of The Score… is all about chamber music. As orchestral music becomes increasingly unpopular, and large force concerts increasingly unfeasible, love for the intimacy of smaller ensemble performances just keeps growing. As well as the usual string quartets and chamber choirs – who are coming up with some very beautiful programmes – there
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Interview: Emeli Sandé – The chemistry between us
Her debut album was just released this month but the Scottish-born singer Emeli Sandé has spent most of her 23 years preparing for the moment. There’s been a lot of behind the scenes action while she bided her time, waiting for the spotlight to turn on her. She co-wrote songs for Leona Lewis, Cheryl Cole…
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Album premiere: Deaf Joe – Burrowings
Muted, coiling and graceful, Burrowings is the debut album by folk-abstractionist Deaf Joe. A combination of acoustics, waltzing blues and ambient stretches, the album is both hypnagogic while rooted in familiar terrain and it is streaming below for your listening pleasure.
Deaf Joe will release Burrowings… on The Delphi Label, this Friday, February 17th. He
State’s Office Stereo – Silly Little Love Songs
Terius Nash introducing Casha – ‘Silly’ (chosen by Alan Reilly)
So here we are at Valentine’s Day – the most redundant and fickle of all make-believe celebrations – and romance lingers in the air like the putrid stench of a rotting relationship. A man very lucky in the fleshy side of things, The-Dream’s career is…
Incoming: We Have Band
UK electronic trio We Have Band are out on tour this month in support of their second album Ternion. They play the Academy 2 in Dublin on Saturday 18th. Here’s what makes them tick.
Who are you and where are you from?…
We are Thomas W-P and Darren Bancroft from London. Dede W-P from
Incoming: Django Django
Based in East London but, as we shall see, with an Irish connection, Django Django have just released their self-titled debut album and play Crawdaddy in Dublin on Feb 23rd. We already know that they make an intriguing electronic rock ‘n’ roll sound, but what else makes them tick?
Who are you and where are …
The Score: contemporary and classical news
Concerts of contemporary music are notoriously poorly advertised. The reasons why remain a mystery, though it seems that contemporary composers and musicians continually underestimate Irish music fans. Yet this country has wide-open ears, and an audience that’s open to discovering anything that’s new or exciting, regardless of the tag that comes with it. Modern music …
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Incoming: The Jon Cohen Experimental
Once a member of The Dears and The Social Register, Montreal native Jon Cohen is now stepping out on his own. Having recently released his debut album Behold…, featuring guest spots from the likes of Murray Lightburn (The Dears) and Evan Cranley (Stars, Broken Social Scene), The Jon Cohen Experimental plays The Grand Social
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Faces of 2012: Digital Magazine and Compilation
All this week we’ve been bringing you our annual pick of new Irish musical talent, featuring the twenty acts that State feels will come to define 2012. From hip-hop and electronica to quiet acoustic sounds and loud guitars, we think it’s our best list yet. Now you can enjoy the Faces of 2012 in sound…
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Faces of 2012: Tenaka
Limerick producer Ronan Carroll makes brooding electronica under the moniker of Tenaka. Collaborating with Sacred Animals, Holy Roman Army, Sorcha Brennan, Daithi and Elaine Mai, his Ephemeral EP is an introspective collection of metronomic arrangements and live instrumentation with casting scope and ambition whetting our appetites for Tenaka’s debut full length album in 2012.
How …
Faces of 2012: The Debutantes
Chiming beneath a veil of reverb, the music of The Debutantes is structurally straight-forward indie but shimmers in its own simplicity. Sounding more sun-soaked than their home turf of Galway, the band’s wash of layered noise, hazy vocals and strummed guitars ring out in heart-melting dream pop.
Describe yourselves and your music.…
Our music changes
Faces of 2012: Tara Masterson Hally
A gleaming new talent from Dublin, Tara Masterson Hally is a fresh voice in timeless folk. Her airy vocals and cooing harmonies are wrapped by the woozy acoustics of harp and guitar creating a resonating ambience. For a girl so young – she still boasts a teen in her age – Hally conveys a weighty…
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Faces of 2012: SertOne
Another of Ireland’s bright new stars in electronic music. Drawing inspiration from the intricate bumpin’ hip-hop instrumental style of J Dilla, SertOne is a Portadown native who, at the age of 21, has already been DJing for ten years and making his own music for five.
Who or what inspires you?
I just spend a…
Faces of 2012: Hush War Cry
Young four-piece Hush War Cry all met while studying Architecture in college together in Cork. Their delicate, nuanced sound is already frightfully well developed. Rich arrangements of guitar, piano and subtleties recall the ornate histrionics of Wild Beasts. The Apparitions EP out this month will be the world’s first taste of these promising young learned…
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