• Irish Tracks of the Week – June 25

    June 25, 2021 - By 

    It’s another stellar week of high profile Irish album, EP and single releases from acts as far-reaching as CMAT, Mob Wife, Kojaque, Meljoann, Tuath, Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke, Mick Flannery & Susan O’Neill, Paddy Mulcahy, VJ Jaxson, Bannered Mare, Smallmint, Roe, A Ritual Sea, Saint Sister & more. CMAT – 2 Wrecked 2 Care 2 Wrecked 2 Care by CMAT Mob Wife – Petri Dish Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill – Chain Reaction Co-Living Culture – Renegador Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke – Far Away The Hills Are Green Meljoann – Overtime Gaze Is Ghost – Sea Song Sea Song…

  • Video Premiere: Paddy Mulcahy – Sunset Connoisseur

    December 15, 2019 - By 

    Limerick ambient and experimental electronic producer Paddy Mulcahy has shared a video for ‘Sunset Connoisseur’. Lifted from his new album, ‘How To Disappear’, the track is a delicate work of muffled piano motifs, dusty percussion and warm atmospherics. The nostalgic visual pairing comes coutresy of Dublin based director Dave Fox. “The song instantly struck a nostalgic chord with me,” says Fox of the video. “There’s a texture within Paddy’s music that has grit and grain and I thought that shooting on film would be the perfect way to compliment that sound. I recently inherited a super 8 camera that had…

  • Paddy Mulcahy – The Words She Said

    March 22, 2017 - By 

    The finest ambient music often finds the artist mining the barriers and plundering the gaps between analogue and digital. Julianna Barwick uses layers and loops to convert her own voice into a universe of sound. Ian William Craig feeds his operatic tones through layers of fuzz to create something quite brilliant and utterly unique. William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops chart the sound of old, decaying tapes, meant to be digitised – quite literally – falling apart as he lets them play out on rotation. The new record from Limerick’s Paddy Mulcahy has something of this feel to it. Mulcahy explores (in…

  • Album Premiere: Paddy Mulcahy – The Words She Said

    March 1, 2017 - By 

    In the midst of the blues inflicted by these cold, wet and blustery days, there are few remedies quite like hearing music that emanates warmth and candour. As luck would have it, that is exactly what we are presented with on The Words She Said, the brand new LP from Limerick based neo-classical producer Paddy Mulcahy.  The seven track collection is a venture through ambient soundscapes and deft piano. Combing its expansive synth drones with nimble, dusty melodies, Mulcahy paints an atmosphere that is reposeful and comfortingly dark. Fans of the likes of Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Bing & Ruth and Conor Walsh will find a lot to love…