Imlé – Fún Orm
Here’s what you may need to know…
01. Decent Irish(-language) hip-hop brought to you by Imlé, a Gaelgeoir collective of musicians and creatives led by Raidió na Life/Wild Promises man Cian MacCárthaigh, and flanked by numerous guests and collaborators, including, on this track, Gaelgeoir wordsmith MC Muipéad.
02. Part of a resurgence of the mother tongue in Irish independent/contemporary music, it seems: as well as appearing on The Gloaming‘s reconstructed versions of trad standards, an Gaeilge can be heard these days in the works of bands like West Cork black-metallers Corr Mhóna, as well as via various compilation/rearrangement projects over the past few years.
03. Imlé formally kicked off last May at Féile na Bealtaine, and swiftly followed up with the launch of their debut single Pádraig. They’ve since appeared at Electric Picnic’s Puball Gaeilge stage. Not just dealing in hip-hop, either, as you may gather from listening to Pádraig, their work explores the contemporary music landscape.
04. 2016 looks to be a busy year for the boys, as they launch their debut full-length later this year, via Irish-language gatekeepers Gael Linn. Production comes from The Frames/Ham Sandwich desk-man Karl Odlum.
Verdict: Ceol den scoth. More contemporary music as Gaeilge, please (suggestions are more than welcome in the comments), and ways to put it into the curriculum, while we’re at it.
More of this please!
Language might actually have a future if there’s a fightback against the state and teaching professions crusade to make it the least fun/usable thing EVERRRRR.
Though the ninety year old auld wans on the tapes nattering about shifting Pol at the disco on Saturday were just greeeeat.
#Haigha
#rudaifliuch (sp?)
Ah lads. You posted this LAST WEEK
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/03/03/decent-irish-rap-3/
Awful. And I didn’t even look or listen….
How the feck are you able to judge if you didnt bother looking?!
Maybe that’s your issue.
Ignorant moron
Raidió na Life has some fantastic music shows.
I was surprised I liked this – I’m not a big hip-hop-head. But yeah, if the language is going to be revitalised it’ll be via pop culture.
Put it into the curriculum by removing the music, the video, the idea, and jumbling up the words so they are rote learned beside a storage heater that no one knows how to turn off
Cast retired teachers you know to play gravel-voiced teenagers and throw them a few bob for their trouble, cash in hand.
IMLÉ are great. They were one of the winners at this year’s inaugural NÓS Music Awards for new music in Irish. If you like them, check out some of the other bands here (winners in bold): http://nos.ie/gradaim/
They are playing this Thursday at REIC (spoken word night) in the Irish Writers Centre.
http://www.twitter.com/reic