Elemental Machinery

Cupula (excerpt)

This is a promo track from my forthcoming album 'Returning Weather' which will be released in March 2023 on Trail Belle Records.
Music and words by Christine Tobin

Line-up: 
Christine Tobin voice, Cora Venus Lunny violin & viola, David Power uilleann pipes & whistles, Phil Robson guitar & electronics and Steve Hamilton piano. 
Returning Weather is the latest work from Dublin born multi-award-winning vocalist and songwriter Christine Tobin. She was commissioned to write this evocative new song cycle by The Dock Arts Centre, with an Arts Council, Music Commissions Award. Celebrated for her versatility and nonconformist musical spirit, Returning Weather imaginatively weaves song, spoken word, visual effects and a stellar group of musicians from diverse disciplines together, creating a multi-dimensional sound-world which blends influences from folk, 20th-century art song and jazz. It charts a journey which is part homecoming, part memoir, inspired by Christine’s return to Ireland after many years abroad and explores themes of finding home, dwelling and landscape, reconnecting with a cultural background, reshaping a sense of identity and belonging. The songs are set in the countryside around Frenchpark, Boyle and Ballaghaderreen. There are many songs of leaving and farewell, this is the music of homecoming and return.

Tour dates March 2023
1st March DUBLIN John Field Room, National Concert Hall (presented by the IMC) TBC

2nd March LIMERICK Dolans 

3rd March. CORK Triskel Arts 

4th March   WESTPORT JAZZ Town Hall

8th March  WEXFORD Jerome Haynes Theatre, National Opera House

9th March  THOMASTOWN Co, Kilkenny. The Concert Hall 

10th March LETTERKENNY Regional Cultural Centre 

11th March. CARRICK ON SHANNON Dock Arts Centre

18th March ENNIS, CO CLARE GLOR

Gennie's Welcome (Promo)

Solo piano recording of Atlantico by Ernesto Nazareth (1916) Unmixed/mastered - recorded in March 2023, due for release as part of Choro Choro Choro in 2024

Atlantico

The title track from my 2008 CD 'Secret Life Of A Girl'

Secret Life Of A Girl

From my forthcoming album 'Pelt' scheduled for release in November 2016 on Trail Belle Records . Poem by Paul Muldoon & Music by Christine Tobin. Cover by Maxine Sutton.
Christine Tobin - voice
Liam Noble - piano
Phil Robson - guitar fx
Gareth Lockrane - bass flute


Wind & Tree

Chris B x sax
Paul C x tubs
Gerry H x barrie
Josefina C x vox /afgan drum

04 Pay No Mind

Christine Tobin grew up in Dublin, later moving to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She was an integral part of the London contemporary scene for many years before moving to New York in 2015 where she made a considerable impact on the city’s creative music world. She returned to Ireland in 2020. The forthcoming March 2023 release of ‘Returning Weather’ will be Christine’s twelfth album under her own name. In 2012 she won a BASCA British Composer Award for her settings of poems by WB Yeats, ‘Sailing To Byzantium’. The following year, her striking arrangements of Leonard Cohen songs won a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2014 she was awarded ‘Jazz Vocalist of the Year’ at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Earlier in 2008, she won a BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best Vocalist’. Aside from her own projects, she has worked and recorded with an array of artists including musicians Django Bates, Billy Hart, Julian Joseph, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Turner, Louis Stewart, Nigel Kennedy, Jean Toussaint, Francesco Turrisi, Ingrid Jensen, poets Paul Muldoon, Eva Salzman, Don Paterson, actor Gabriel Byrne and film director Mike Figgis. She has played at major festivals and venues around the world.

Wind & Tree

Christine Tobin

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