Declan O’Rourke shares “Echo”, the lead single from his eighth album “Oceanic”, due 16 October. Produced with Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil, it’s a beefy, robust rocker — and its video offers a first look at “Almost With You”, the Australian feature in which O’Rourke makes his screen acting debut, premiering at Galway Film Fleadh on 9 July.
Skyjack’s fourth album, “Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet”, is out today on Kujua Records. The Swiss–South African quintet take the title’s image — feet on the earth, the sky opening below — and turn it into twelve tracks articulating their “deep roots into the earth with high branches reaching upward and outward”.
Our latest Off the Shelf guest is Clàrsach player Anna McLuckie, whose latest release, “The Little Winters”, was one of our recent Featured Albums of the Month. She introduces us to the book she was named after, a pair of aggressively Scottish stools from her Grandad, a map lamp cut from an old Glasgow street map, invaluable notebooks (for the boring and emotional, for songs, poems, and dreams), and more.
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