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The next 'Listen Back' will focus on Seti The First - Melting Cavalry album [2012]
Kevin Murphy will talk us through this brilliant recording.
Rory Gallagher Music Library
City Library
Grand Parade
Wed 01 April
11.00 am
All welcome!
Seti The First is the much-celebrated cello-led group comprising the duo of Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh. ‘Melting Cavalry’ was the band’s debut album, released in 2012 to wide critical acclaim and championed by everyone from RTE Lyric FM’s John Kelly to Copenhagen’s finest Efterklang. The band’s influences encompass a diverse array of artists, including The Haxan Cloak, Toumani Diabaté, Matthias Loibner and Hauschka to name but a few.
Press:
“thrilling soundscapes” - The Irish Times
“a thing of great beauty” - John Kelly, RTE Lyric FM
“Not quite classical, not quite jazz, not quite pop, they somehow manage to weave elements of a multitude of genres (including Flamenco and folk) into pieces like, ‘La Bassinette Noir’ which, to these ears, recalls the Morricone-inspired textures utilized by Calexico and Giant Sand.” Hot Press
Kevin Murphy is a celebrated cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter from Cork Ireland. He is also a founding member of critically acclaimed Irish experimental bands Slow Moving Clouds, Seti The First, Rattling Ark, as well as a solo project called Blind Stitch.
He has featured as a guest musician with many Irish and international artists such as The National, Bon Iver, Jenny Lewis, Lisa Hannigan, Gavin Friday, Rick Danko, Seamus Fogarty, Adrian Crowley and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode.
He has also collaborated with Irish traditional and folk musicians such as John Spillane, Cathy Jordan, Phil Callery, Cormac Breathnach, and Ger Wolfe in live settings and on recordings.
His band Seti The First co-wrote two songs on The Waterboys 2017 album 'Out Of All This Blue'.
He also participates in the People collective spearheaded by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Bryce and Aaron Dessner (The National). This has resulted in collaborations with the above artists and others in festivals across Europe in recent years including the Funkhaus in Berlin 2018 and Sounds from a Safe Harbour Cork in 2017 and 2019.
He has co-composed the score for Michael Keegan Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na Heala which the Guardian Newspaper described as the second best dance production of the 21st Century.
He co-composed the score for feature film Tomato Red (2017) directed by Oscar long-listed director Juanita Wilson and The Lodgers, (2018) which featured at the Toronto Film Festival.
Kevin and Thomas also scored the trad music based documentary North Circular (2022)
Thomas Haugh has released two critically acclaimed experimental records under the mantle of Hulk. He has also played with the Plague Monkeys, produced records for artists such as Adrian Crowley and remixed notable artists such as Efterklang.
Kevin Murphy will talk us through this brilliant recording.
Rory Gallagher Music Library
City Library
Grand Parade
Wed 01 April
11.00 am
All welcome!
Seti The First is the much-celebrated cello-led group comprising the duo of Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh. ‘Melting Cavalry’ was the band’s debut album, released in 2012 to wide critical acclaim and championed by everyone from RTE Lyric FM’s John Kelly to Copenhagen’s finest Efterklang. The band’s influences encompass a diverse array of artists, including The Haxan Cloak, Toumani Diabaté, Matthias Loibner and Hauschka to name but a few.
Press:
“thrilling soundscapes” - The Irish Times
“a thing of great beauty” - John Kelly, RTE Lyric FM
“Not quite classical, not quite jazz, not quite pop, they somehow manage to weave elements of a multitude of genres (including Flamenco and folk) into pieces like, ‘La Bassinette Noir’ which, to these ears, recalls the Morricone-inspired textures utilized by Calexico and Giant Sand.” Hot Press
Kevin Murphy is a celebrated cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter from Cork Ireland. He is also a founding member of critically acclaimed Irish experimental bands Slow Moving Clouds, Seti The First, Rattling Ark, as well as a solo project called Blind Stitch.
He has featured as a guest musician with many Irish and international artists such as The National, Bon Iver, Jenny Lewis, Lisa Hannigan, Gavin Friday, Rick Danko, Seamus Fogarty, Adrian Crowley and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode.
He has also collaborated with Irish traditional and folk musicians such as John Spillane, Cathy Jordan, Phil Callery, Cormac Breathnach, and Ger Wolfe in live settings and on recordings.
His band Seti The First co-wrote two songs on The Waterboys 2017 album 'Out Of All This Blue'.
He also participates in the People collective spearheaded by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Bryce and Aaron Dessner (The National). This has resulted in collaborations with the above artists and others in festivals across Europe in recent years including the Funkhaus in Berlin 2018 and Sounds from a Safe Harbour Cork in 2017 and 2019.
He has co-composed the score for Michael Keegan Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na Heala which the Guardian Newspaper described as the second best dance production of the 21st Century.
He co-composed the score for feature film Tomato Red (2017) directed by Oscar long-listed director Juanita Wilson and The Lodgers, (2018) which featured at the Toronto Film Festival.
Kevin and Thomas also scored the trad music based documentary North Circular (2022)
Thomas Haugh has released two critically acclaimed experimental records under the mantle of Hulk. He has also played with the Plague Monkeys, produced records for artists such as Adrian Crowley and remixed notable artists such as Efterklang.
