16 October
2023
Under the Island: Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 - 1994
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
A compilation of work by : Desmond Leslie, Roger Doyle, David
Cunningham, Sean O'hUiginn, Daniel Figgis, Nigel Rolfe, Noel Molloy,
Olwen Fouéré, Danny McCarthy, Giordai Ua Laoghaire, Fergus Kelly, The
Shit, Burning Love Jumpsuit, John Carson & Conor Kelly
After two years of digging, hunting, unearthing archives, digitising
and a lot of correspondence, Nyahh Records is very excited to finally
be announcing the release of ‘Under the Island: A Compilation of
Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 – 1994’. Ireland, a country known
mostly in the pop music arena for U2, Thin Lizzy, Stiff Little Fingers
et al and of course, the Show Band era of the 60s’ to the present, the
country is not known for producing a lot of ‘cutting edge, Avant Garde
music. A few very influential bands did get out such as Doctor
Strangley Strange (1967 – 1971), Mellow Candle (1965 - 1973), Princess
Tinymeat (1984 – 1987) and the Virgin Prunes (1977 – 1991). A strange
bunch for sure, and where would we be without them. But, further down
underground there were a few artists working away in their bedrooms and
non-studio settings experimenting with tapes and handmade instruments.
Here for the first time is a collection of these artists and their
work. Sounds that had been left in boxes on tape or cassette have now
been cleaned up and presented together in a collection spanning over
four decades.
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