01. Lerloons is a 23-year-old producer based between Galway and Dublin, specialising in lo-fi and ambient, flitting between samplers, synths, and old tape recorders.
02. Debut long-player GOODNIGHT was released in 2015, followed by last year’s full-length 24. Both are available for streaming and download via Bandcamp.
03. Streaming above is newest composition _m4ster-s1ave.ase, released yesterday via their Soundcloud.
04. They’ve also been busy working on soundtracks, yesterday releasing work done for brands at the Milano Fashion Film Festival.
Thoughts: In all of the comfort and familiarity of shards of chiptunes and ambience lies the uncertainty and discord of them falling apart, a line which Lerloons treads lightly.
Australian math-rock blog Fecking Bahamas, a long-term supporter of all manner of awkwardly-timed, noisy, proggy rock ‘n’ roll, has produced the fifth installment in its ongoing series of country/region-specific compilations. Number five? Ireland.
Behold, twenty-one tracks of homegrown noisemaking past, present and future, accompanied by artwork from New York-resident Limrocker Shane Harrington, and includes YMLT featurees CHANCER, Yonen, and Ganglions, as well as veterans like And So I Watch You From Afar, Ten Past Seven, The Redneck Manifesto. Also bundled in are contributions from defunct outfits like the sadly-missed Adebisi Shank.
More info and other compilations are available from the site, including a world-map of math-rock.
A&E consultant and Totally Sound Bloke Dr. Fergal Hickey was on [RTÉ Radio One’s] Morning Ireland today about this (‘up to 350 people will die needlessly’ if things do not improve in the Irish health service over the next year)….I went off and drew 350 people just to see what that might look like.
A composite image taken last October by Johannes Holzer at the Isar river in southern Germany. The image was achieved using two cameras shooting three photos from roughly the same perspective, which were then stitched. To wit:
..[the] sky with a Sony A7r and Vixen Polarie Startracker, one additional shot for the landscape without [a] Startracker, [and] underwater was done with a Canon 5Dm2 with an EWA Underwater case.
The mini epic video of ‘No Plan’ by street musician Kristin Vollset aka The Musical Slave about life in a Dublin 8 horse yard has already garnered 86,000 views on YouTube or three times the population of the Liberties.
The ‘sheet asked Kirstin, from Bergen, Norway, if she would share her thoughts behind the making of the song.
Kirstin, who is expecting her first child this week, graciously replied:
”No Plan is about the search for freedom. I left my home town to go on a road trip, because I was sick of my life, and wanted to go on an adventure and get back my feeling of freedom.
And then I ended up finding this community of horses and boys in a laneway in the centre of Dublin.
And it’s hard to explain, but the first time I saw them jockeying horses in the middle of the street, it lit the fire in my heart. It was like the horses and boys reminded me how life used to be when we made our own rules and didn’t need money to survive.
And I think having horses in the middle of the city actually makes a lot of sense. I think people need to feel this contact with nature, and that the horses remind us of our own wild nature, and remind us what it feels like to be free.
And there really is something magical about this laneway in Dublin 8. It’s more than just a group of horse yards, it’s a local meeting place where people catch up on the latest news, and there’s always something going on, with visitors from other horse yards, and always some conflict, or some water fight.
But even though there are problems, these people have so much love for each other, and there is a buzz here that you won’t find anywhere else.
And then there’s this group of 16 year old boys, who appear in the video. It was them who brought me to the Ballinasloe Horse Fair where I found my horse, and it was them who inspired me to write the song. (A few of them have even helped write 2 of the verses in the song).
And they are some of the smartest and funniest people I’ve met in my whole life. And they have this way of always being in the flow, and making crazy things happen in the middle of everyday life.
And it was the boys who taught me how to go “cruising” with the horses and the cars. And the art of cruising is an important part of the video. I want to show how cruising brings you into this zone where you don’t have to think and you can just enjoy being alive.
So the point is that these 16 year olds are actually on the ball, and they have something important to teach the world about life and about freedom.
And basically, we should all go cruising more often…Also I couldn’t have made the film without them, and thanks to these boys, the culture of the Dublin horse community will go down in history.”
