Irish Filmmaker (The Stars Are Underground, The Master Musicians of Joujouka, The Ex & Brass Unbound, videos for Vijay iyer, The Frames) and musician (80s delinquents The Babysnakes and Dublin punk legends Paranoid Visions) Daragh McCarthy has created a one-man band with a hundred members:
The Mighty Avon Jnr.
A stylistically diverse debut album "HOLD EVERYTHING DEAR" has just been released.
Influenced / inspired variously by John Berger (from whence the album title), Traditional Shape Note Singing, the Women of Greenham Common, text artist Jenny Holzer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, jungle death cults of the 80s, and collapse...
“Serge Gainsbourg filtered through The Virgin Prunes and Neubauten”
Written in Valencia Spain and recorded in Dublin and Harlem the record is cinematic, alternative / quasi-experimental, occasionally spoken-word. There's minimal piano and double bass work, choral voices and epic agit-dance.
Produced by Daragh McCarthy: HOLD EVERYTHING DEAR was recorded in a handful of studios in Dublin and Buddhabug Studios in Harlem. A little guitar in Italy and the whole thing was brought over the line with Liam Mulvaney back at Bow Lane Studios Dublin.
Mastering is by Harvey Birrell (CRASS, Ariel Pink, Chelsea Wolfe, Chrome Hoof, Tackhead)
Personnel includes:
Moist Paula Henderson, Dave Smoota Smith & Eric Biondo (TV On The Radio , The Roots, Burnt Sugar Arkestra),
Peter Maybury (Thread Pulls),
Rian Trench, Dave Redmond,
& Antonio Gramentieri (Alejandro Escovedo, Dan Stuart).
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