The Gloaming

Shaped in 2011 in Rosemount, Region Westmeath, Ireland, the Gloaming was a supergroup made up of six-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champ Martin Hayes, folk-rock guitarist Dennis Cahill, Hardanger fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, producer-pianist Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), and sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, perhaps most widely known for his use worldbeat icons Afro-Celt AUDIO SYSTEM. Fusing traditional Irish music forms with rock and roll and contemporary traditional affects, with Ó Lionáird performing in Irish throughout, the group received rapturous crucial acclaim, and many awards, for his or her 2013 eponymous debut recording, released on Peter Gabriel’s REAL LIFE Records. Made by Bartlett, better known for his use indie rock rings like the Country wide, the album required as its starting place Irish traditional music, but sympathetically augmented it with pop/rock and roll vocal stylings and stunningly gorgeous piano arrangements inside a post-classical vein. It received the 2014 Meteor Choice Reward for Irish Record of the entire year, beating famous brands U2, Sinéadvertisement O’Connor, and Damien Grain. The group toured the globe, playing at main festivals such as for example Womad, and offering out London’s Barbican arts middle. The Gloaming’s second record, 2, implemented in 2016, heading deeper in to the custom but at exactly the same time consolidating and growing their unique design with refined post-rock inflections.