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We're delighted to announce that the brand new record from Mick O'Brien & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh has been released - it was launched at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy in Miltown Malbay on 3rd July 2011.

Now available from CD Baby, iTunes, Claddagh Records and Custys.

The Night & I is a track I made for John Lambert's Relay Project.  He started the project in May 2008, and this is what it is about:

"Relay is an online music project devised and curated by Irish musician John Lambert aka Chequerboard. The aim in the project is to create an unbroken chain of sound pieces where each work is created in response to the previous so that ideas and sounds shift, mutate and evolve over time.

The only requirements given to each specifically chosen artist is that they create a sound piece in response to the last in the chain and write a short piece on their process, both of which are posted on the Relay website for visitors to explore. 
On finishing their work, each artist is asked to gather a cluster of sounds from their piece which are passed on to the next participant, as a result some tracks feature traces of audio from the previous piece but not always, some responses are purely conceptual. 
Participants so far have included musicians, sound artists and multi-disciplinary artists who intermittently work with sound. "

So if you do have a listen to my track, be sure to check out all the previous tracks too so that you get a feel for the whole project.

The Irish Times - Monday, March 21, 2011

This Is How We Fly

SIOBHÁN LONG

Whelan’s, Dublin

BORN OF a shared spirit of adventure, This Is How We Fly is a quartet soaked in tradition, but intent, just as TS Eliot sagely suggested, not to drag it around with them like a dead load, but to harvest fresh bounties from the seeds of their inheritance. In between almost hair-shirt renditions of tunes, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh found a synchronicity between his playing and the dance steps of Michigan’s Nic Gareiss that was breathtaking. Ó Raghallaigh confided to the punters that Gareiss had been busily practising the dark art of levitating, but truth was, we had already figured that out for ourselves, such was the weightless quality of Gareiss’s steps. And a further truth didn’t elude the rapt audience either: for every step he took, and every note Ó Raghallaigh played, equal space was given to the notes and steps that remained in the ether, sublimely left to the punters’ imagination.

Swedish percussionist Petter Berndalen brought a mischievousness to his percussive antics, relishing the challenge and the satisfaction of finding himself keeping company with a such a buoyant dancer, and jousting in between, with Nils Okland tunes. Bass clarinettist and alto saxophonist Seán Óg built fluid, sinuous patterns beneath the percussion and fiddle, all the better to unite the trio of musicians beneath the G forces of Gareiss’s dance steps. Throughout the evening it was as if the four were deconstructing their repertoire, only to reconstitute it in shapes entirely of their own making. Their shared joie de vivre was palpable, along with the pinprick non-verbal communications that passed between them, literally, in the blink of an eye.

The human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being, Nic Gareiss was the undisputed star of the evening, with his sole prop being a handful of dust which he used for additional percussive impact as he shimmied his way across floorboards, sprinkling it as if it were stardust.

Ó Raghallaigh’s own tunes were a celebration of circular motion. Ellipses and What What What delved deep into the heart of recurring chord sequences, as if they were the illicit offspring of Martin Hayes, whose love for unpicking well-worn traditional tunes to unveil their simple essence is almost a trademark by now.

Berndalen was even moved to join Gareiss in (semi) flight as the night drew in. Traditional music shot through with the adrenaline of contemporary influences: a lethal but irresistible cocktail.

A Game of Two Halves Tour

(which is where I do one half of a show, and Fiona Kelleher does the other half with her band)

09/03 - Grainstore, Ballymaloe

10/03 - Solstice, Navan

11/03 - Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne

12/03 - An Lab, Dingle

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This Is How We Fly

(a band consisting of myself, Nic Gareiss, Seán Óg Mac Erlaine and Petter Berndalen)

18/03 - Whelan's, Dublin

19/03 - The Half Moon Theatre, Cork

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Secret abandoned house gig, I think

20/03 - Dublin!

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USA East Coast Solo Tour

******POSTPONED*******

22/03 - Middletown House Concert, CT

******POSTPONED*******

23/03 - 131 Essex St #3, NYC (Viseltear Violins) - with Cleek Schrey & Stephanie Coleman (les.fiddle@gmail.com for enquiries)

******POSTPONED*******

24/03 - Gibson Guitar Room, 709 g street nw, Washington, DC

******POSTPONED*******

27/03 - The Bridge PAI, Charlottesville, VA - with Cleek Schrey & Loren Ludwig

******POSTPONED*******

Triúr Sa Draighean named Best Album of 2010 in The Irish Times!

A Moment of Madness in at #5 on the list!

The complete list:

Siobhan Long

1 Peadar Ó Riada, Martin Hayes & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Triúr Sa Draighean 
2 Andy Cutting Andy Cutting 
3 Matt Cranitch & Jackie Daly The Living Stream 
4 Louis de Paor & Ronan Browne Agus Rud Eile/And Another Thing 
5 BrendAn Begley & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Le Gealaigh/A Moment of Madness 
6 Nuala Kennedy Tune In 
7 Lunfardia Acollarados 
8 Téada Ceol Agus Cuimhne/Music and Memory 
9 Andy Irvine Abocurragh 
10 Chris Wood Handmade Life

Link to the original article on the Irish Times website