‘13’ is a song about change, how you have evolved from when you were 13 to who you are now. It poses the questions are you happy with who you have become, have you accomplished the things you thought you would, and what is stopping you from making 13-year-old you proud?

I wrote this single for my nephew on what would have been his 13th birthday. It explores ideas around the innocence of youth, the experience and privilege of growing older, and appreciating life’s lessons.

I hope you like it!

13 (Radio Edit)

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13 (RADIO EDIT)

"Take a Ride on the Ocean" is an unashamed nod to carefree 60's spirit, made in California. The Beach Boys meet the Mamas & Papas. The kind of song I like to write during cold, dark and gloomy winters, in my Berlin apartment.

Take A Ride On The Ocean

We've Got Time

 Featuring the vocal styles of Morgan d'Arcy.

The Moderator is The IT Superhero this Moderation Subsystem needs!

The Moderator

Daragh McSherry

Time Will Deliver What it Wants

Light My Fire At The OC

Secrets I Told to a Sound Hole

The Major Triad Demon

I wrote this song from the point of view of a guy with multiple personality disorder. One personality wants to pack up and leave but the main guy isn't ready to let them go just yet

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Long ago you would take me walking
Walked so far and - we would never feel the time pass
People never no--ticed but we were young and full of dreams

Talkin’ to myself and I was feelin’
Something’s changed and nothing seems to be the same 
And Then I take a pill and all the ill thoughts burst away out from the seams  

Now I see the music and it tastes like a moonbeam

The colors speak to me to me - they’re constantly callin’
I color outside the lines and then they’re after me 
‘hide behind my sanity and all the colors flow out like a stream 

Just last weekend you tell me that you’re leaving
Leaving all the doubt behind but no one every doubted you
You see me as an obstacle but I’m not that disposable you see
Don’t you see you need me to breath I’m not about to set you free

We both live inside this headspace but its spacious 
Sharing the same thoughts for 20 years we were audacious 
I’ve changed my mind that if you want to leave I won’t stand in your way
Just remember that I’ll put someone else right in your place 

The colors speak to me to me - they’re constantly callin’
I color outside the lines and then they’re after me 
Ill hide behind my sanity but what’s left of my sanity
I fear that quite dramatically ill waste away and then we’ll see 
if the music still tastes like a moonbeam


Tastes like moonbeams

“That guy in the static is me”

Turn on your transistor radios (or press “Play”, if you happen to live in the present) and crank up the volume: Harry Dahl has made “A Crack in the Air” to reach out to you!

The Berlin-based songsmith, singer and arranger loves his bliss with a bittersweet twist and his melancholy elegantly humoured. A self-described “song and dance man”, he’s written dozens of songs, working on giving them the grandeur they deserve.

Playful and sophisticated pop, an abundance of melodies and hooks, waiting to haunt you.

“Come shake your hips/Don’t be shy of dancing, night time romancing”.

A Crack In The Air

“Maybe the odds are long and gloomy
But here’s an oddly hopeful man
One who is never too mature
To visit ‘Seventeen’ again”

Harry Dahl, the wayward pop smith from Berlin, the always optimistic “Song-and-dance-man”, is releasing his second single “A Faller in Love”. A familiar beat with trusty hand claps provide a solid Motown foundation on which Harry performs one of his favourite roles…The knowing dreamer. So, will he get her in the end? Well, get yourself on whatever-passes-for-a-dancefloor these days and find out!

A Faller In Love

Better Luck Next Year

Antóin Corbett is an Irish Musician. A Graduate of Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa's 'Music, Management and Sound', Antóin and his brother Cian fronted Cork band 'The Sneakies'. He gigged on the Wedding band circuit for a few years before pursuing a bachelor's degree in music and progressing to a Professional Masters of Education at University College Cork. 
Antóin is now a Secondary School Music teacher and still writes songs, most recently for playwright Justin Irwin's three consecutive plays; 'Cheat', 'My regards to Mae' and 'Lunch on Lennox Street'

Tastes like moonbeams

Antoin Corbett

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