About this Event
Cloch ‘s Claí pushes further into the improvisational territory the collective have been building towards, drawing from ornamentation and accompaniment traditions in Irish trad music alongside krautrock, free jazz, post-rock, minimalism and drone. Because the arrangements shift with every performance, the band say the album captures just one version of a piece that’s constantly rebuilding itself.
The album takes its structure and its themes from the dry-stone wall, with each of its ten tracks standing in as a metaphorical stone. It’s a satirical look at Ireland’s relationship with its native language and the Gaeltacht, inspired in part by Myles na gCopaleen’s 1941 novel An Béal Bocht (also known as Brian O’Nolan, also known as Flann O’Brien), touching on tokenism, housing, gentry politics and ribbon developments along the way.
Ag Iompar Fuaime is the debut album by harper Niamh O'Brien. A subtle combination of traditional Irish music and sound art, the album features nine compositions and the talents of Paddi Alice Benson on uilleann pipes and Tommy Hayes on percussion.
The album is released on the Farpoint Recordings label and available on CD, cassette tape, download and unlimited streaming from July 23 2026.
A tune holds things.
As it is passed on, taught, dreamt up, received, heard, and repeated, it gathers. It carries the voice of the teacher and the sound of the landscape that frst inspired it. Over time it swells with the echoes of all those who played it before us. This hidden soundscape fows within the music like an invisible stream.
In this album I have tried to enter this stream of stories. You will hear voice memos, birds and my grandmother’s recipe for black pudding, wind farms, ai accordions and whispers of people long dead. Every tune holds this magic. You just have to crack it open and let it fow out.
Event venue & nearby stays
Pot Duggans, New Road, Ennistimon, Ireland
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