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Forging new bonds with his family’s island home off the coastal west of Ireland, their story is retold in Seanteach (Irish for ‘old house’), released on Odda Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Seanteach explores the nature of my relationship with Ireland, and Connemara in particular, where my dad’s family is from,” explains Connolly, speaking on a long-form work that blends new compositions on traditional Irish fiddle with ambient electronics and evocative field recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach track on the album is a reflection of aspects of that relationship to island life - where physical features intersect with mythology. Such as, ‘Boreen’, named after a colloquial term for rural byroads sometimes shared with otherworldly neighbours. ‘Aisling at Sea’ draws on the primal, unstoppable momentum of the water, while the folklore of ‘Immram’ reflects on generationally-kept tales of marine bravery and supernatural accomplishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTying these worlds together is the presence and memory of Connolly’s ‘Mamó’ (Irish for grandmother), Bríd. Despite passing during Connolly’s childhood, this “larger-than-life character” shaped his imagination with anecdotes and stories, representing both a familiar figure, and the poignancies of potential and regret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Between the Shoreline and the Gorse’ channels her early childhood, born to a large Catholic family in the island’s ‘Seanteach’, and cast adrift from her old life - a severance of ties that Connolly attempts to make ethereal amends for, with the album named for her family home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of: Flaer, Memotone, Quade, Tara Clerkin Trio and Time Is Away\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50505894101323,"sku":"2218268","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ODA04M_81683fab_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727817675"},{"product_id":"porcelain-1","title":"Porcelain","description":"\u003cp\u003eFohn conjures a dreamlike landscape of introspective beauty, loneliness and transience from analogue tape and field recordings on new album, \u003cem\u003ePorcelain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA late summer evening in southern France. The dry mistral wind billows the washing that hangs outside the windows on narrow streets, bringing with it the first whispers of autumn. In the distance children are playing in the square, their shouts caught in the dust whipped up by their feet. A bell tolls, the light dies, and a rich, compelling solitude descends.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eViolinist and multi-instrumentalist Fohn, aka Tom Connolly, describes the act of making music as “building fictional environments that become places of solace,” and a process of translation and projection that bridges his internal and external worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile musicians like John Also Bennett, Oren Ambarchi and Connolly’s own group Quade drift behind his sound, \u003cem\u003ePorcelain\u003c\/em\u003e draws its temperamental inspiration from films like Call Be My Your Name and Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror, as well as the sculptures of Anthony Gormley, whose solitary figures stand isolated in expanses of water along the UK coastline.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHow does Connolly describe the atmosphere he wants the music to evoke? “It's the feeling of the inevitability of something having to pass,” he answers. “It's compelling because it's fundamentally unattainable. 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