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Aonghus McEvoy

Under & Cracked (Tape)

Label: Astral Spirits

Format: Tape

Genre: Experimental

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Limited edition of 200 copies.* Aonghus McEvoy is an Irish, Dublin-based experimental guitarist, who has played with musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ricardo Jacinto, Adam Pultz Melbye and Damo Suzuki. Aonghus’ long-term projects include a duo with chaotic synthesist Tristan Clutterbuck and he is a member of pioneering exploitation folk-rock group Woven Skull and the brutalist punk quintet Worst. Likewise, he counts among his many inspirations Eva-Maria Houben, J.S. Bach, Cornelius Cardew, Rhodri Davis, Mel Bay’s Jazz guitar and Autechre. Under & Cracked is his sixth album and the first one not released by him independently.

Under & Cracked features Dublin’s finest  – and unfortunately lesser known – improvisers – drummer David Lacey, violist Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (both played on McEvoy’s self-released 28/11/16, 2020), electronics player George Brennan and double bass player Sean Maynard Smith. McEvoy and his band navigate freely between free improvisation, Americana, post-rock and minimalism. McEvoy’s understated and unhurried guitar lines anchor the commotion with gentle and simple, repetitive, ripple-like motives that attach to the three pieces a sensibility of improvised folk songs that naturally blossom into a layered psychedelic texture.

The second piece "Night-Time Providence" captures best the sonic essence of Under & Cracked. It revolves around McEvoy’s minimalist, repetitive guitar lines and suggests a psychedelic kind of post-rock minimalism with strong echoes of West-African cyclical scales, or as the Astral Spirits call it: "Tony Conrad and Faust meets Natural Information Society". "Delhi, Laganside, 2014" imagines the restless commotion of the Indian mega-city with steady, repetitive motives and slowly ornaments the dense and nervous dynamics with more sonic nuances and colors. Aonghus McEvoy is a creative power that deserves your attention.
- Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts

Details
Cat. number: n/a
Year: 2022
Notes:
First pressing of 200 copies with purple shells.

Aonghus McEvoy - Guitar
George Brennan - Electroincs (1 & 3)
David Lacey - Drums
Sean Maynard Smith - Upright Bass
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh - Viola

Recorded by Robert Scanlon at The Meadow
Mastered by Ivan Jackman

Art by Choi Cheung
Layout by Dylan Marcus McConnell