As a flute player, a double bass player and a composer, Clare-born musician Neil Ó Lochlainn has a natural a foothold in several radically different traditions, especially in his role as leader of Ensemble Ériu, the enchanting acoustic septet he co-founded in 2011 with concertina player Jack Talty. By drawing a connection …
Kokoroko
Kokoroko is a young London-based collective of musicians strongly influenced by Ebo Taylor’s Ghanaian Highlife music style, by Tony Allen or Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat while also incorporating contemporary West African and European jazz sounds. While some of the band members met at London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and …
Planetarium
We’ve returned to the question of identity and humanity and human rights, and what does it mean to be a person in our world? What is our relationship to our world, and the environment? What does it mean to believe in a divine being, and what does that divine being require of us? That divine being is often inspired by the cosmos. …