David Murphy

David Murphy & Ether Ensemble have shared “The Rain Song”, a reworking of the Led Zeppelin ballad for pedal steel guitar and seven-piece ensemble, with all Bandcamp proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. The single follows Murphy’s acclaimed debut “Cuimhne Ghlinn”, which Glenn Kimpton called “an extraordinarily great album” in these pages. A new studio album is due in 2027.

With his newly-named band – Ether Ensemble – Irish pedal steel guitarist David Murphy announces the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album with live EP Quay Session and shares its accompanying short film directed by west Cork filmmaker Sean Vincent Phair.

David Murphy’s ‘Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar’ is an incredibly confident debut album. Balanced against its elegance and the dreamlike sound of his pedal steel is a quietly adventurous spirit that is beautifully judged and unpretentious—an extraordinarily great album.

Irish-based session-musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist David Murphy shares his debut single and video (by Gavin Wood) for “Citi na gCumann”, taken from his very original debut album ‘Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music For Pedal Steel Guitar’.