Fohn - Seanteach Fohn
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Limited edition black vinyl LP (500 copies worldwide) with cover designed by Fohn and Ashley Kinnard. FFO Flaer, Memotone, Quade, Tara Clerkin Trio and Time Is Away. Fohn brings connection, displacement and new identities into the moment, on pastoral debut album Seanteach - informed by island life, marine folklore and musical tradition. Connection to the land, the severing of earthly ties, explorations of environment, mythos and generational memory: under the moniker of Fohn, English violinist and producer Tom Connolly (Quade, AD93) takes to the fiddle on which he learned his craft as a child. Forging new bonds with his family’s island home off the coastal west of Ireland, their story is retold in Seanteach (Irish for ‘old house’), released on Odda Recordings. Debut album from Fohn (aka Tom Connolly).Tom is a member of the group Quade who released their debut album Nacre on AD93 last November. Quade have been supported by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Boomkat, The Ransom Note and Bandcamp. “Seanteach explores the nature of my relationship with Ireland, and Connemara in particular, where my dad’s family is from,” explains Connolly, speaking on a long-form work that blends new compositions on traditional Irish fiddle with ambient electronics and evocative field recordings. Each track on the album is a reflection of aspects of that relationship to island life - where physical features intersect with mythology. Such as, ‘Boreen’, named after a colloquial term for rural byroads sometimes shared with otherworldly neighbours. ‘Aisling at Sea’ draws on the primal, unstoppable momentum of the water, while the folklore of ‘Immram’ reflects on generationally-kept tales of marine bravery and supernatural accomplishment. Tying these worlds together is the presence and memory of Connolly’s ‘Mamó’ (Irish for grandmother), Bríd. Despite passing during Connolly’s childhood, this “larger-than-life character” shaped his imagination with anecdotes and stories, representing both a familiar figure, and the poignancies of potential and regret. ‘Between the Shoreline and the Gorse’ channels her early childhood, born to a large Catholic family in the island’s ‘Seanteach’, and cast adrift from her old life - a severance of ties that Connolly attempts to make ethereal amends for, with the album named for her family home.
Track List
1. Immram (3.00)
A2.
2. Boreen (3.54)
A3.
3. MacDara (3.22)
A4.
4. Interlude (3.53)
B1.
5. Between the Shoreline and the Gorse (2.18)
B2.
6. Aisling at Sea (8.00)
B3.
7. Closer (3.56)
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