Author

Lorcan Mac Mathuna

Lorcán Mac Mathúna is an improvising singer and composer with a special interest in the nature of vocal music. His many projects investigate and elaborate on the improvising nature of the human voice in solo and collaborative settings. This includes A Cappella Sean-Nós singing, contemporary compositions of an improvised nature, music composition theory based on syllabic poetic forms, and much, much more.

Tracks

Watch: New Multidisciplinary Performance of the Great Celtic Epic The Táin

19 October, 2018

In April this year The Model gallery in Sligo, owners of a selection of Iconic Images of the greatest Celtic Epic, The Táin, was host to an interpretation of this ancient epic which married three art forms. Find out more and watch a performance of Scread Ceann Sualtaim.

Reflections from Asturias by Lorcán Mac Mathúna

12 March, 2015

Last year we featured a ground-breaking album by Daire Ó Breacáin and Lorcán Mac Mathúna. The seed for that project came about during a anthropology/song-collectors excursion in Asturias. Read more about that journey of discovery in this special feature by Lorcán.

Featured Albums of the Month Interviews

Preab Meadar – Dancing to Poetry

4 December, 2014

Lorcán MacMathuna of Preab Meadar talks us through the dance element of their new album with a brief look at the history of Irish Literature.

Lorcán Mac Mathúna – The creation of Mythology and of Music

13 February, 2014

Listen to an incredible recording from the Deep End of the Ford and read Lorcán Mac Mathúna’s special feature for FRUK on the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf.

News

A Halloween Fright – Courtesy of Lorcán Mac Mathúna

23 October, 2012

Wth Oíche Samhna just around the corner Lorcán thought an extract of Cú Chulainn’s warpspasm from The Book of Leinster would make a suitably scary treat!

Interviews

Lorcán Mac Mathuna Talks: Sean-Nós

29 December, 2010

Lorcan Mac Mathuna talks about Sean nós, a traditional unaccompanied style of singing in Irish that, in recent times, existed only in the furthest reaches of Ireland’s landscape.

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