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Lisa O'Neill - Heard A Long Gone Song [CD]

Lisa O'Neill - Heard A Long Gone Song [CD]

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Lisa O'Neill grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects makes it hard to tell which is which. These are folk songs in the original sense of the word.

The album begins with an entirely unaccompanied rendition of The Galway Shawl, first collected in 1936 but made famous by Alan Lomax's 1956 recording of the great Margaret Barry. Lisa's remarkable and unconstrained delivery of this popular Irish street ballad is like hearing it for the first time. It's followed by the slow-building menace of Along The North Strand, a version of Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight collected from a Traveller singer named Kitty Cassidy. Accompanying herself on guitar, Lisa's telling of this murderous tale is illustrated by the creeped-out squeals of fiddle played by Christophe Capewell, and the unearthly gasps of concertina from Cormac Begley who uses every clunk and wheeze of the instrument to conjure a Bad Seeds-like cacophony. The record returns to unadorned voices with a room-silencing duet between Lisa and Radie Peat of the band Lankum on The Factory Girl, a broadside that some believe celebrates the independent spirit of working class women.

At the start of 2018, Lisa was invited to perform at Dublin's National Concert Hall for Shane McGowan's 60th Birthday Celebration, alongside Nick Cave, Bono, Sinead O'Connor and the man himself. On Heard A Long Gone Song, Lisa has recorded a gorgeously world-weary interpretation of The Pogues' Lullaby Of London; a line from which gave the album its title.

Recorded in a rural studio near the Loire Valley, Heard A Long Gone Song was produced by David Odlum and Lisa O'Neill. It follows her much-lauded, self-released 2016 album Pothole In The Sky with a record that is personally political, uniquely beautiful, heartfelt and witty. And perhaps as timeless as the passed down songs Lisa sings as if they were hers.

"She is a true Artist - totally uncompromising with an almost naive attitude to what she does, which makes for some of the purest music I've heard." - Kevin Rowland, Dexys.

5* Review in the Guardian
9/10 in Hot Press

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Lisa O'Neill grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects makes it hard to tell which is which. These are folk songs in the original sense of the word.

The album begins with an entirely unaccompanied rendition of The Galway Shawl, first collected in 1936 but made famous by Alan Lomax's 1956 recording of the great Margaret Barry. Lisa's remarkable and unconstrained delivery of this popular Irish street ballad is like hearing it for the first time. It's followed by the slow-building menace of Along The North Strand, a version of Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight collected from a Traveller singer named Kitty Cassidy. Accompanying herself on guitar, Lisa's telling of this murderous tale is illustrated by the creeped-out squeals of fiddle played by Christophe Capewell, and the unearthly gasps of concertina from Cormac Begley who uses every clunk and wheeze of the instrument to conjure a Bad Seeds-like cacophony. The record returns to unadorned voices with a room-silencing duet between Lisa and Radie Peat of the band Lankum on The Factory Girl, a broadside that some believe celebrates the independent spirit of working class women.

At the start of 2018, Lisa was invited to perform at Dublin's National Concert Hall for Shane McGowan's 60th Birthday Celebration, alongside Nick Cave, Bono, Sinead O'Connor and the man himself. On Heard A Long Gone Song, Lisa has recorded a gorgeously world-weary interpretation of The Pogues' Lullaby Of London; a line from which gave the album its title.

Recorded in a rural studio near the Loire Valley, Heard A Long Gone Song was produced by David Odlum and Lisa O'Neill. It follows her much-lauded, self-released 2016 album Pothole In The Sky with a record that is personally political, uniquely beautiful, heartfelt and witty. And perhaps as timeless as the passed down songs Lisa sings as if they were hers.

"She is a true Artist - totally uncompromising with an almost naive attitude to what she does, which makes for some of the purest music I've heard." - Kevin Rowland, Dexys.

5* Review in the Guardian 9/10 in Hot Press

Track Listing

The Galway Shawl

Along the North Strand

Blackbird

The Lass of Aughrim

Violet Gibson

The Factory Girl

Rock the Machine

A Year Shy of Three

Lullaby of London

Details
  • Genre: Folk & Country
  • Product Type: Audio CD
  • Barcode: 191402800128
  • Release Date: October 23, 2018
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