Cian Nugent

Guitarist and songwriter Cian Nugent comes from Dublin, Ireland. His playing design, while quite exclusive, derives from many resources. Early recordings expose the deep impact from the American Primitive players including John Fahey and Robbie Basho and the fantastic United kingdom folk guitarists such as for example Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, and John Renbourn. On the way, even more idiosyncratic sources produced themselves known in his playing and composing: he’s equally enthusiastic about blues and traditional musics, past due-’60s and ’70s vocalist/songwriters, jazz (of several stripes), 20th hundred years classical structure (notably Charlemagne Palestine’s), electrical folk (Fairport Convention), and rockist resources such as Tv as well as the Velvet Underground. His playing in addition has opened up showing that he’d spent significant period deep-listening to contemporary guitarists including Jim O’Rourke, Ben Chasny, and Jack port Rose. Nugent was raised a devoted rock and roll fan (he provides claimed which the Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” continues to be a personal impact) and performed in several rock and roll and ska rings in his teenagers. During his twenties, his playing advanced and he gravitated to playing single classical guitar and creating a exclusive fingerstyle personal. His first recordings — a privately distributed self-titled EP in 2007 as well as the full-length Years as a child, Christian Lays & Slaughter on Incunabulum/audioMER. in 2008 — keep this out. He continuing to try out with bands, nevertheless, and in ’09 2009 he got on the function of bassist for Limerick’s Ocean Pet and became a founding person in the #1s. Despite his activity with others — including a touring electric guitar duo with Steve Gunn known as Desert Temperature — Nugent spent significant amounts of period expanding his very own audio. Doubles, a single guitar album, premiered on VHF in 2011, and contains two side-long paths. You can hear the accept of dissonance, repetition, and exploratory technique in his compositional technique. Nugent toured with Fern Evening, Arborea, and various other psychedelic folk performers, following the recording having a 7″ solitary that paired the initial “Lawn Above My Mind” with “My Battle Blues,” a melody predicated on a track by former Dark Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski. Not really quite happy with the restricting solo guitar file format, he created Cian Nugent & the Cosmos. The band’s regular membership contains the guitarist, drummer David Lacey, electrical violist Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, bassist Conor Lumsden, and organist Brendan Jenkinson. The group released Born using the Caul on No One fourth in 2013 (that they had help on horns in several spots). More than 45 minutes very long, the set contains only three songs; it offered a mercurial spin on past due-’60s and early-’70s intensifying folk. Amid touring and additional musical actions, Cian Nugent & the Comos joined Bow Collection Studios in Dublin on ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION 2015 and slice a new recording. For the very first time, Nugent sang on the recording, and mixed his methods between band music and single interludes. Night time Fiction was documented by Daniel Fox (Lady Music group) and combined by Brendan Jenkinson. It had been released by Woodsist in January 2016, prior to the group undertook a significant UNITED STATES tour.