Baby Raptors 5 track debut EP on Isotopia Records launches June 7 at House of Yes in Brooklyn starring Baby Raptors with special guest, Yoyo star Gentry Stein.
To compliment the release, the Baby Raptors Augmented Reality Experience app is now available for iOS and Android. For exclusive Baby Raptors content – install the app on your device and aim the camera at the EPs front and back cover artwork.
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On Wednesday, 24 May International Literature Festival Dublin in association with IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, will present The Brecht Project: Songs From The Dark Times at the renowned Smock Alley Theatre.
Songs From The Dark Times is being conceived and directed by American theatre and opera director, Eric Fraad, with music direction by the celebrated Irish singer, Caitríona O’Leary.
The Irish language production imaginatively adapts monologues, scenes and poems written by the German poet/playwright Bertolt Brecht, and songs – and other musical works – written by Brecht and the composers Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler with the intention of drawing comparisons between the fascist regimes that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s, and the rise of right wing authoritarian governments today.
Smock Alley Theatre 1662
6-7 Exchange Street Lower
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Ireland
Price: €10 / €8
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Singer: Caitríona O’Leary
Actors: Seán T Ó Meallaigh, Gearóid Ó Mordha
Dancers: Justine Doswell, Clodagh Farrell, Sarah Carey, Roisin Kearney
Keyboards: Josh Johnston
Saxophones, Percussion: Nick Roth
Clarinets: Deirdre O’Leary
Stage Direction: Eric Fraad
Music Direction: Caitríona O’Leary
Choreography: Justine Doswell,
Set & Lighting Design: Kevin McFadden
Costume Design: Monica Ennis
Projection Design: Margaret Lonergan
Irish Translations: Gabriel Rosenstock, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh
Producer: Liam Carson
Colleen Taylor’s article Christmas favourites old & new in The Irish Echo features THE WEXFORD CAROLS in a roundup of her Celtic Christmas favourites.
” This is an album that any Irish-American, any Irish person, and any lover of Irish history or music needs in their collection.”
“What could be more important at Christmas than an audible reminder of how music links us with the people, the stories, and the histories of centuries past?”
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Colleen Taylor of The Irish Echo reviews THE WEXFORD CAROLS.
“If not for the history, then you must at least listen to “The Wexford Carols” for its incredible, all-star transatlantic folk singer lineup. This group of creative minds and musical custodians is truly unprecedented in folk music.”
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Caitríona O’Leary & Dúlra’s five date tour of Handel In Ireland begins tonight in The Dock, Carrick on Shannon.
The concert features songs and dances that were popular in Ireland at the time, music that Handel would undoubtedly have encountered here, as well as some works by the maestro himself, reimagined in traditional Irish interpretation.
Tuesday 12 April
The Dock, Carrick on Shannon
8pm
€20/€18
Box Office: 071 9650828 or www.thedock.ie
Wednesday 13 April
Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
8pm
€16/€13
Box Office: 066 7123055 or www.siamsatire.com
Thursday 14 April
Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
8pm
€20/18
Box Office: 01-231 2929 or www.paviliontheatre.ie
(Free Booking Online)
Friday 15 April
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
8pm
€20/18
Box Office: 045448327 or www.riverbank.ie
Sunday 17 April
Tullynally Castle,
Castlepollard
8pm
Promoted by Derravaragh
Music Association
€20
T. 044 9666 344 or email loughbawn@eircom.net
Following a standing room only concert at the Händel Festival in Halle, Germany in June 2015, Handel In Ireland – performed over five dates on a tour of Ireland – is Caitríona O’Leary & Dúlra’s celebration of Handel’s stay in Ireland in 1741 – 1742 during which time he premiered his most famous work, Messiah.
The concert features songs and dances that were popular in Ireland at the time, music that Handel would undoubtedly have encountered here, as well as some works by the maestro himself, reimagined in traditional Irish interpretation.
Tuesday 12 April
The Dock, Carrick on Shannon
8pm
€20/€18
Box Office: 071 9650828 or www.thedock.ie
Wednesday 13 April
Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
8pm
€16/€13
Box Office: 066 7123055 or www.siamsatire.com
Thursday 14 April
Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
8pm
€20/18
Box Office: 01-231 2929 or www.paviliontheatre.ie
(Free Booking Online)
Friday 15 April
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
8pm
€20/18
Box Office: 045448327 or www.riverbank.ie
Sunday 17 April
Tullynally Castle,
Castlepollard
8pm
Promoted by Derravaragh
Music Association
€20
T. 044 9666 344 or email loughbawn@eircom.net
Handel In Ireland is performed by some of the world’s most celebrated Irish traditional musicians and European world music stars.
Caitríona O’Leary (voice)
Dónal Lunny (bouzuki)
Adrian Hart (fiddle)
Éamonn de Barra (flute and whistles)
Éamonn Galldubh (flute, whistles, uillieann pipes)
Kate Ellis (cello)
Matthias Loibner (hurdy- gurdy)
Andrea Piccioni (frame drums)
The Arts Desk have reviewed TIME MACHINE by Roger Doyle in its Classical CDs Weekly section.
“The results are surprisingly affecting and often poignant…”
“Fascinating, witty and moving – this disc deserves to be a cult hit.”
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The Guardian’s music critics have announced their Best Albums of 2015 and we’re delighted to report that Caroline Sullivan has included FALLING INTO NOW by Constance Hauman – sitting nicely between Mark Ronson and Florence + the Machine.
FALLING INTO NOW is released on Isotopia Records, Heresy’s new imprint.
THE WEXFORD CAROLS by Caitríona O’Leary and featuring Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash & Rhiannon Giddens is Album of the Week, this week, on RTÉ 1 Radio.
The album reached the Number 1 slot on the Billboard World Albums Chart in January 2015.
Here’s what Tom Jones had to say on his Facebook page when he heard the news.
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Robert Hugill of Planet Hugill has reviewed Roger Doyle’s TIME MACHINE.
“Each movement has its own distinct timbre and tint… so that the whole feels like a unified work.”
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At 8pm, on Friday October 16 2015 in Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre, the celebrated Irish singer Caitríona O’Leary will perform a concert of works in Irish by the legendary Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell. The concert entitled SWEET FIRE: The Joni Mitchell Project (ÍDE NA TINE: Tionscadal Joni Mitchell) is being produced and presented in conjunction with IMRAM, the Irish Language Literature Festival.
Joni Mitchell’s lyrics have been translated into Irish by poets Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock. For the concert Ms. O’Leary has assembled a band comprised of leading Irish jazz and rock musicians including, Dick Farrelly (guitars), Nick Roth (saxophone), Dave Redmond (bass) and Graham Hopkins (drums). The visual artist Margaret Lonergan has created evocative projections to accompany and enhance the performance and mise en scène.
The poetic translations of Mssrs. Ó Muirthile and Rosenstock and Ms. O’Leary’s poignant and emotionally intense interpretations and arrangements will result in a unique and artistically powerful way in which to experience the remarkable repertoire of Joni Mitchell.
Joni Mitchell has been described by Rolling Stone as ‘one of the greatest songwriters ever’. Her intensely poetic lyrics probe romantic themes of longing, joy and disillusion, as well as social and environmental concerns. Her music ranges from acoustic folk, rhythm and blues, and pop to harmonically complex jazz experiments.
Hear Caitríona O’Leary discuss Joni Mitchell on Lyric FM’s Culture File.
In 2014 Ms. O’Leary was commissioned by IMRAM to create PORT A’ TSAOIL: Tionscadal Kate Bush/ JIG OF LIFE: The Kate Bush Project, which she performed to SRO audiences at venues in Dublin and Belfast.
Smock Alley Theatre
Admission – €15/€10 (Concession)
Book tickets online or call (01) 677 0014
MusicWeb International has reviewed TIME MACHINE, the new release by Roger Doyle.
“This is a remarkable release…”
“If you are looking for something theatrical and contemporary that doesn’t bamboozle you with avant-garde angularity or batter you with tediously heavy dance rhythms then Time Machine is a wonderful place to explore.”
“Jonathan Prelude is an instrumental preamble to Coat-Hanger Kisses in which the late broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Philbin Bowman improvises a poetic “stream of consciousness message”…”
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Roger Doyle’s TIME MACHINE is awarded a 5 rating and in it, they say:
“Time Machine confirms Roger Doyle as Ireland’s leading composer. At 66, ‘the godfather of Irish electronic music’ remains a towering figure…”
“It’s a hypnotic exercise in eavesdropping, in Proustian recall and, above all, in bittersweet hindsight, its surface immediacy beautifully meshed with sub-cutaneous autobiographical poignancy.”
“Shifting between narcotic swathes of electronic washes, now vigilant, now keening strings and doleful piano, this is ineffably sensitive music profoundly alive to the widest of emotional registers.”
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Heresy Records is proud to release TIME MACHINE by the celebrated Irish composer, Roger Doyle. TIME MACHINE has been described by the Irish Times as “a richly rewarding work that runs the full, glorious gamut of human emotion” and as “A deeply meaningful release” by Ambient Exotica.
TIME MACHINE is centered on a body of telephone answering machine messages that Mr. Doyle recorded and saved between 1987 and 1989. The messages give a strong impression of what it was like to be a composer living the bohemian life in Dublin in the late 1980s.
The album presents the listener with a fascinating dramatis personae including, the composer’s parents, Paddy and Gwen, his son Paavo, his new-born grandson Oisín, the renowned actor and director Steven Berkoff, the actress Olwen Fouére, the poet/broadcaster, Jonathan Philbin Bowmen, the composers, Daniel Figgis and Vincent Doherty amongst others.
The album operates as a memento mori and achieves a sense of gravitas from both the remarkable and emotionally trenchant music Mr. Doyle has composed and as a result of the many people on the album who are no longer alive. Philbin-Bowman, died tragically, Mr. Doyle’s parents passed away, children have grown, friends have become estranged and new life has sprung up in the person of his grandson and his compositions themselves.
Mr. Doyle composed, produced and performed all the works on the album.
Photography: Laelia Milleri
Graphic design: Ciaran Byrne
Art direction by Eric Fraad
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