{"title":"Caoilfhionn Rose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaoilfhionn Rose is a talented singer-songwriter from Manchester, UK. Her ethereal and enchanting music blends elements of folk, dream pop, and electronica to create a unique and captivating sound. With her mesmerizing vocals and introspective lyrics, Caoilfhionn has gained recognition for her emotive storytelling and ability to transport listeners to another world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving released her debut album \"Awaken\" in 2018, Caoilfhionn has been praised by critics for her haunting melodies and atmospheric production. Drawing inspiration from nature, dreams, and personal experiences, she crafts songs that are both intimate and universal in their themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a growing fanbase around the globe, Caoilfhionn continues to captivate audiences with her live performances. Whether performing solo or with a full band, she creates an immersive experience that leaves listeners spellbound. If you're looking for music that will transport you to another realm, look no further than Caoilfhionn Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"truly","title":"Truly","description":"\u003cp\u003eTruly, the luscious, soulful new album from Manchester singer-songwriter Caoilfhionn Rose (pronounced Keelin) moves through a tapestry of curious musical inflections; nods towards folk, jazz, ambient, electronica and even a subtle influence of psychedelia, it never stands still to take a breath, despite its ethereal and delicate core. Out April 9th on Gondwana Records (Mammal Hands, Portico Quartet, Matthew Halsall, Hania Rani), in Truly, the young singer-songwriter has accomplished a body of work that is both sonically and lyrically wise beyond her years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCo-produced by Kier Stewart of The Durutti Column following Rose's collaborative endeavours with them on their album Chronicle LX:XL, the musician's song writing draws from a diverse palette of influences, including Building Instrument, Rachel Sermanni, Alabaster dePlume and Broadcast. 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The ten tracks on \u003cem\u003eConstellation\u003c\/em\u003e feel rooted in a knowledge of folk, jazz and all the twentieth century’s classic tunesmiths, and yet they seem to create a magical, otherworldly space of her own imagining, blending Caoilfhionn’s core piano with synths, and pitting a live rhythm section and saxophone embellishments against ambient samples and future-facing production techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConfident, exploratory and often jaw-droppingly sublime, this incredible album properly announces Caoilfhionn Rose’s arrival as a fresh creative force for 2024. Caoilfhionn has always pursued music with a fierce commitment. When a period of illness in her late teens caused a delay in starting a Music degree at Newcastle University she used the time constructively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe took a diploma in Music Production and Audio Engineering at Manchester MIDI School (Now School of Electronic Music), which leant heavily towards electronic music, imbuing her with a progressive outlook towards sound manipulation. Later studying music at university in Newcastle, she’d make sound experiments and field recordings, posting tracks online under the alias Audrey Daydreamer, and eventually an EP, under her own name. That was how I got involved with Gondwana,” she explains, “because Matthew [Halsall, label boss] heard the EP, and he came to see me play at a café called The Art of Tea, and asked if I’d like to record for Gondwana.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConstellation\u003c\/em\u003e features contributions from Halsall’s rhythm section, drummer Alan Taylor and bassist Gavin Barras, as well as Jordan Smart from Mammal Hands, whose supple sax exquisitely colours the fringes of most of its songs. Also guesting: John Ellis, former member of The Cinematic Orchestra, beatifically tinkling the ivories at the end of ‘Fall Into Place’, and producer Aaron Wood via a raft of ambient samples adding textured loveliness throughout ‘Rainfall’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I love being open to collaboration,” Rose enthuses, “and the record’s a collage, knitting together all these influences, sounds and players, and just really going for it with the experimentation in the production.” \u003cem\u003eConstellation\u003c\/em\u003e sees her broaden the range of her singing, from the pure natural expression of her earlier records, to using it more as an instrument, sometimes more as abstract sound than as conventional verbal delivery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s all playful and experimental,” she summarizes, “seeing what we could come up with that’s imaginative.” And she has learnt to use “her artistic license just to let the words be as they are”, to write in a momentary, impressionistic, almost painterly way. One example was how the word ‘constellation’ just fell into her head – “like, out of the cosmos” – while recording that song, so in it went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also seemed emblematic of many aspects of the album – the theme of connectedness, her little cluster of Gondwana family musicians, and a pervasive feel of stargazing awe in the music. It obviously made a fitting album title, too. And so, Caoilfhionn Rose’s collage of differing influences and inspirations, players and processes, cohered into a miraculous and quietly powerful body of work, which stands as a testament to artistic adventure, to both improvisation and hard work, to trusting our connection to nature, other people and music itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs such, \u003cem\u003eConstellation\u003c\/em\u003e surely deserves to put her on a much bigger stage by the year’s end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gondwana Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50418153718091,"sku":"2185463","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50418154602827,"sku":"2185464","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50418153357643,"sku":"2185462","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/GOND069_-_Constellations_Art_d99a29d7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726739203"},{"product_id":"awaken","title":"Awaken","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaoilfhionn (pronounced Keelin) Rose is a singer, songwriter and producer from Manchester. 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Other, older pieces were patiently revisited and reworked with keyboardist John Ellis (a founding member of The Cinematic Orchestra). Caoilfhionn’s ongoing collaborations with The Durutti Column have long informed her carefree approach to making music (“lots of improvising and experimenting… seeing what sticks”); here she pushes it further than ever. “It’s been a lot about following my intuition and trusting in the process and musicians in the room,” she says. Started from a sweet little mini-hand-drum loop by Rich and finished with Awen Blandford’s swooping cello lines, lullaby-like opener ‘Reflecting The Light’ was inspired by Caoilfhionn’s pregnancy – “the feeling of my little girl growing inside me,” as she puts it, and the almost supernatural feeling of connection to another person it brings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe much older ‘Grow’ – a song about how a person “keeps unfolding” through good times and bad – came close to appearing on Caoilfhionn’s previous record Constellation in 2024 before finding renewed meaning and purpose here, reinvigorated by John Ellis’s rolling Fender Rhodes. Set to finger-picked guitar and hazy electronics, the album’s title track ‘Draw Out Your World’ drifts into view like a gentle parting of the clouds – a mellow but vivid reflection on dreams and realities and the pathways in between, with shades of Judee Sill and Linda Perhacs. 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