Artwork by Eoin MacLochlainn

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Pearse McGloughlin & Nocturnes

Hi everyone, and happy new year. I hope 2019 is one of health and friendship, family and happiness!

We are playing our first show of the year in Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligoon January 19th. If you are about, we'd love to see you there. I'm really glad that my uncle Eoin Mac Lochlainn is providing the artwork to accompany 'Ag Ól, ag Ól ag an Garbhóg' which we will launch in Sligo, fittingly. The beautiful image is from an exhibition by Eoin which was at the Olivier Cornet Gallery exploring climate change and particularly the significance of trees. One of the verses in the song (written with Enda Reilly Music) is:

'An tuath seo lán\/ de cuimhne soleir 
Dath ór/ tine ar-an uisce 
Fuaimeanna na h-oiche sna crainnte'

which roughly translates as

'This land is full of bright memory
The golden colour of fire on the water
The sounds of the night in the trees'

So, I felt that line was connected to the painting by Eoin. I'll share the new version of the song here shortly.

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Composing for Haiku Sequence by Stephen James Smith

I’ve really enjoyed working on a series of haiku for poet Stephen James Smith alongside my brothers Kevin and Páraic who were working on the videos. I recorded Stephen in my house and composed the music alongside Billy Donohue from my band Nocturnes. We had a lot of fun recording the poems - some of them are particularly moving and some of them are funny, some of them are thoughtful and earnest.

Stephen is an inspiring guy to work with. I’ve known him since he started the Glór sessions, a music and poetry night which used to run in Dublin a few years back. We always said we would worked together at some point so it’s been a treat to make these videos and also to collaborate with my brothers, all in the same project. Here’s Stephen delivering a brilliant performance on The Late Late in London last weekend.

We’ll have a full video shortly of all the pieces together.

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Arena with Páraic McGloughlin

Hi folks,

My brother Páraic made a stunning visual piece which is gaining a daycent amount of traction on Vimeo at the moment. I worked with Páraic on the sound design and music. Check it out below and buy the track here. 

Pretty amazing stuff.

Also, I put out a new track a few weeks back, quietly releasing it digitally. It's called 'Rapture'. You can find it and follow it on this playlist which is a complete collection of recent years' work. There's also an Irish language version called 'Lúcháir'.

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Tracks from Pearse McGloughlin's albums, projects and collaborations: 'Busy Whisper' (2009) 'In Movement' (2012) 'Idiot Songs' with Justin Grounds (2013), 'The Soft Animal' by Nocturnes (2016) as well as two Irish language songs, 'Scagadh' and 'Ag Ól, ag ól ag an Garbhóg' and 'Jongmyo Shrine'.

Humans / Duine De Chruach

I recorded English & Irish versions of this song because when we were recording it we were asked to do a set at Puball Gaeilge at Electric Picnic.
The track is a hopeful one; it sees that challenges and setbacks are
a part of life and admires the effort we make to overcome such moments.

Listen to both versions of ‘Humans’ on this playlist. Please follow, add and save your favourites on Spotify.

“a subtly-affecting midpoint between balmy electronica and somnambulant ambience" The Thin Air

"powerful vocals" - Nialler9

“conducting lush wisps of electronic synths and beats through the air like a multi-coloured potion of neon cloud" Remy’s Blog

 

Tracks from Pearse McGloughlin's albums, projects and collaborations: 'Busy Whisper' (2009) 'In Movement' (2012) 'Idiot Songs' with Justin Grounds (2013), 'The Soft Animal' by Nocturnes (2016) as well as two Irish language songs, 'Scagadh' and 'Ag Ól, ag ól ag an Garbhóg' and 'Jongmyo Shrine'.

Workman's Gig to launch 'Humans'

Thanks a million to everyone who came out to our launch show for our new single 'Humans'. Laura Rai and Arch Motors did beautiful opening sets and Nocturnes were graced with the presence of my good friend Justin Grounds (Idiot Songs) as well as Billy Donohue, Enda Roche, Christophe Capewell and Sweeney Lee. It was a great night of sharing music. Also big thanks to Colin McKeown and Mark Willis for their excellent visual work.

We've put out the track 'Humans' as a bilingual release. There is both an Irish language and an English language version.  My father Páraic helped me with the translations. If you like the track here you can help us by adding it by saving it and adding it to your playlists. 

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Also we have some nice new t-shirts printed by Pulled with the design by Kevin. Pick up one here. 

Thanks!

P

HUMANS { new live video }

Last week there was an open call for the Other Voices IMRO Other Room. I thought it would be fun to turn our rehearsal into a live recording of a new song as a submission. So, my brothers Kevin and Eoin came up from Sligo to shoot us in Billy's place. We set up quickly and did a couple of takes. One mic, two cameras. I'm very happy with it as we don't have many live recordings of Nocturnes and there was a lovely natural energy and momentum in the evening. 

Big thanks to Billy, Niamh and Séamus for allowing us to turn their house into a makeshift studio and to Kevin and Eoin for doing the visuals so well.

We will release the studio recording of the song before the year is out. 

In the meantime, our next stop is Nighthawks at Cobalt Café on October 7th.

Be sure to see the flowers,

Pearse