Product Description
Title: Damian O’ Neill – An Crann Format: CD Label: Shellshock Barcode: Cat Number: DEEDEE021CD
Release date: November 25th 2022
The long-awaited second solo album from The Undertones guitarist Damian O’Neill is an
exquisitely inventive collection of largely instrumental tracks, mixed by veteran producer
Paul Tipler (Stereolab, Placebo, Julian Cope, House Of Love). The title “An Crann” is Irish
for “The Tree”, a symbol of growth and inspiration. As Damian himself explains…”If some-
one listened to this record without knowing anything about me, they’d probably never guess
that I started life in a punk band. I unashamedly wanted to present instrumental pieces that
are emotional, evocative and personal and offer to the listener textures and layers of music
that can be melodic, childlike and even melancholic at times. There’s obviously Irish folk
traditional influences as well as French, Japanese, American and British. I’m playing virtually
all the instruments myself, with added percussion on a couple of songs. It was recorded
mainly at home over the last couple of years in the loft of our house on a laptop with an array
of instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, bass, organ, vibraphone, toy
marimba and glockenspiel, melodica, mouth organ, squeezebox, kalimba, bells and various
percussion and human voices.”
Track Listing:
- Más O Menos
- Malin Head Imminent
- Tune for the Derry Ones
- A Quare Visitation (Belfast ’65)
- Lament for Loughlinisland
- La Tengo
- Manannán mac Lir
- New Loft Trio
- Waltz (Interlude)
- We Want The Wesleys
- Round and Round
