thomas bartlett

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett have created an album that is seductively dreamlike but sometimes sad, layered like a palimpsest but accessible on every one of those layers. It is unlikely you will hear a better instrumental album this year.

Our Tune of the Day comes from Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett’s new self-titled album. Listen to ‘All Good Things’, a tune inspired by the Baltimore Fiddle Fair, where Caoimhín was musician-in-residence one year.

World-renowned Irish American supergroup The Gloaming return with their highly anticipated third studio album The Gloaming 3 on 22nd February 2019 on Real World Records. Listen to two new tracks Sheehan’s Jigs and Áthas (Joy).

What is so impressive about this release is the level of immersive intimacy that the quintet achieves in a live setting. Only the audience appreciation at the end of each track reminds you that they aren’t playing just for you. This is music deeply rooted in its time and in its space yet played without borders – and it’s all the better for it.

Featuring 12 brand new songs produced by Thomas Bartlett featuring self-penned and songs written by friends and relatives: Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Ondaatje and Merrill Garbus of tune-yArDs.

We have a pair of guest-list places to giveaway for The Gloaming ‘Sold Out’ show at Union Chapel this Friday 26th February, the same day on which their new album “2” is released on Real World records.

In 2, The Gloaming meet and exceed the expectations encouraged by their debut. It’s another enthralling, captivating interpretation of Irish tradition. For some reason it’s all rather emotional – that emotion tends to be joy, frequently mixed with wonder.

The Gloaming announce new album ‘2’, to be released on February 26…enhancing traditional Irish music’s rich, melancholic tones with modern hues of jazz, contemporary classical, and experimental music. Listen to Fáinleog (Wanderer) here.

Glen Hansard’s second solo album finds him in reflective mood, the songs veined with themes of grace under pressure and of support and comfort for the lost.

Irish music supergroup ‘The Gloaming’ announce new album and two live shows in London and Dublin for February 2016. Watch them performing Samhradh Samhradh live in Cork.

This is the Kit announces new album ‘Bashed Out’ (April 6). Produced by Aaron Dessner. We get our first taste with the lead track, also our Song of the Day. This is now top of our list for the most anticipated album of 2015.

The Gloaming is a time between night and day a world between worlds, the music of this quintet occupies the spaces between the tradition and the modern, the mystery and the beauty.