Oisin Leech releases his Steve Gunn-produced debut album Cold Sea tomorrow, Friday, March 8, ahead of its debut in Galway next month.
Recorded in Co Donegal, in an old sea-facing schoolhouse which the musicians transformed into a working studio, Leech will perform his new LP at an Taibhdhearc, on Friday, April 5, at 8pm.
The album features contributions from M Ward and Tony Garnier, a long-time member of Bob Dylan's touring band, alongside Irish folk legend Dónal Lunny, and Róisín McGrory. In support of his debut, Leech is announcing the 'Maiden Voyage Concert' series, during which he will play a run of dates in Ireland with an ensemble featuring Gunn, Lunny and McGrory.
After a musical history that led Leech from the street punk bands of yesteryear through an ongoing seven-album stint with folk duo The Lost Brothers, he found himself for the first time working on songs to sing alone. Throughout the great pause of the pandemic, Leech said he put his two children to bed each night, and sat by the fireplace experimenting with open tunings. The poems of Seamus Heaney and Leech’s own history as a studied playwright inspired the words.
Tickets €22.50 plus fee from www.antaibhdhearc.com
