Awen Ensemble

On their new EP, The Walls Around Ballyfin, the Leeds-based septet Awen Ensemble set sail for Ireland. Listen to their mesmerising lead single and title track, on which they bring a new lease of life to a forgotten folk song and a tune written by their drummer Eddie Bowes’s great-grandfather in County Laoise, Ireland.

Watch Leeds-based septet Awen Ensemble performing three tracks from their debut album, Cadair Idris. The session was recorded live at Yellow Arch Studios in the industrial heartland of Sheffield.

Leeds-based septet Awen Ensemble’s debut album, Cadair Idris, is released today. Watch their new video for album closer ‘Upon Leaving The Dream’.

Awen Ensemble’s Cadair Idris presents proof that not only wooden instruments conjure a response to wilderness lands or scenic rivers. Woven from modern jazz repertoires with a mythic folk essence, this is an audacious and promising debut.