Name: Le Soleil by Ciara O'neill
Duration: 3 min 24 s
Description: 'Le Soleil' is a bright summer anthem allowing the listener to jump into the unknown because ‘to know joy you have to know fear’

'Le Soleil' is a bright summer anthem allowing the listener to jump into the unknown because ‘to know joy you have to know fear’

Le Soleil

Back To The Beginning

Have Some Shame

Last Chance For Romance

Johnny’s on the Water was learned from the singing of Appalachian folk singer Jean Ritchie (1922 - 2015). It twists the archetypal story of a woman left behind by a sailor, the singer rejecting grief and finding empowerment: ‘if he can live without me, I can live without him’. This line became the heart of our arrangement. 

We created this arrangement in residence at Snape Maltings in 2022. In slowing down the tempo, destabilising the rhythm, and replacing Ritchie’s sparse dulcimer accompaniment with an ensemble of modular synths, guitars and affected strings, we explore the way that the open sea warps our understanding of time and distance. The trumpet solo was played by Lissie Daly, a tireless campaigner for women in brass.

Musicians:
Lauren Spiceley - fiddle and vocals 
Joseph Woods - guitar and vocals
Martha Wiltshire - cello and vocals
Denis Wouters - electronics and vocals
Lissie Daly - trumpet
Tom O’Connor - fretless bass
Florence Brady - vocals 

Trad. arr. by Lauren Spiceley, Martha Wiltshire, Joe Woods, Denis Wouters, Lissie Daly, Tom O’Connor and Hannah Jacobs
Recorded at Pony Studios by Upcycled Sounds
Mixed by Denis Wouters
Mastered by Felix Davis
Artwork by Floortje Kattemölle, photographed by Martijn Petrus

Johnny's On The Water

The Courtyard (Radio Edit)

FAITHFUL JOHANNES X NEOCIA

Sincerity rapper Faithful Johannes and producer Neocia's debut collaboration.  A childhood obsession with astronomy collides with devastating moment the 2008 moment that NASA's Ultra Deep Field image revealed graphically how terrifying big the universe is.  It really is easier not to think about it.

Word and Vocals Faithful Johannes
Music, production, mixing and mastering Neocia

Ultra Deep

Basement

Billie ventures out of the folk genre and into the electronic realm. Recorded and produced in their home studio. Inspired by the river dart, which flows through Devon. The song echos the fluidity of water. 

Written, recorded and produced by Billie Maree
Mixed by Furkan Gulus 
Mastered by Denis Blackanham

Water, Keep Me

Verse 1
WALKING AROUND UPSIDE DOWN
WITH M MEMORIES LONG GONE
MY BOYFRIEND, MY GIRLFRIEND AND PE OPLE AROUND
HAVE LEFT THE TOWN
STROLLING THE EMPTY STREETS AT NIGHT
THE CODE TO YOUR CELL THE KEY TO YOUR MIND
THE POWER OF NOW HAS NO TIME

Pre.C
WALKING BACK IN TEARS INTO THE WIND
WHEN THE FUTURES GONE WITH THE RISING SUN

Chorus:
SURE, THEIR COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER WAY
IF WE HELD THE TIDES
THEY COULD HAVE LIVED ANOTHER DAY
IF WE TOOK THE TIME

Verse 2:
IS MUTATION SO SURREAL? HAS THE FICTION BECOME REAL?
ISOLATE, SUFFOCATE WHEN ALIENATION TURNED INTO FATE
ORWELL HAS DESIGNED THE ROLES
NATURE WILL TICK THE ONES WHO WILL FALL
WILL SURVIVE 1984

Pre.C:
WALKING BACK IN TEARS INTO THE WIND
WHEN THE FUTURES GONE WITH THE RISING SUN
WALKING BACK IN TEARS INTO THE WIND
WHEN THE FUTURES GONE WITH THE RISING SUN

Chorus: 
SURE, THEIR COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER WAY
IF WE HELD THE TIDES
THEY COULD HAVE LIVED ANOTHER DAY
IF WE TOOK THE TIME

Bridge:
THEY WENT IN A SNEEZE
TAKEN BY THE BREEZE
I’LL REMEMBER YOU FOREVER
SPRINGS ETCH MEMORIES 
BLOSSOM IN THE TREES
I'LL REMEMBER YOU FOREVER

AS LIB FOR 2020  

EMPTY TALK, CAT WALK
VENTOLINE, MAGAZINES
SPEED BALL, ON THE DOLL
ISOLATE, SUFFOCATE

MILLE NEUF CENT QUATRE-VINGT-QUATRE

20 IN 2020

MILLE NEUF CENT QUATRE-VINGT-QUATRE

20 IN 2020

Twenty

It's approximately the year 2067 and due to a mass glitch in everyones unified internal brain devices the tune Poliplex is being constantly transmitted to every human ape and hamster. With no respite just forever playing on and on. All other music has been deleted forever, as it only came from one place and no one had a back up as complacancy of lifestyle had long been socities way. Unfortunately a hard reset to delete said music would kill everyone, as at this point in humanities time full symbiosis with the device had become fully intergrated on a molecular level and iirreversable. Also everyone had long forgotten how to make music as there was no need as AI where the only composers left. So for the next 305 years Poliplex was on repeat until the very end.

Polipleks

Your Story

RTE Radio1 folk award nominee Ciara O’Neill has been on quite the musical journey over the last
eight years. Originally from Co Armagh and now based in Belfast her debut album ‘The Ebony
Trail,’ (2016) set the foundations of a career notching up praise from BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson, Hot Press magazine and more along the way.
But it wasn’t just the press that sat up and took notice of her haunting folk songs; music lovers
and industry folk from across the Atlantic saw something special in both Ciara’s songwriting and
her ability to silence a room with her voice. Receiving publishing interest after a chance meeting at
the Belfast Nashville Songwriting Festival she found herself flying back and forth to the USA
working with some of the finest songwriters Music City had to offer. It was there she sowed the seeds of what was to become her second album ‘Arrow’ (2018).
Just as Ciara was starting to think about her third album, the world locked down due to the
pandemic and finding comfort once again in her guitar she began creating an EP ‘La Lune’ (2022).
Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ciara’s most recent single ‘La Lune’ topped the airplay charts of BBC Radio Ulster and RTE Radio1, it was also this song which led to
Ciara being nominated for best emerging artist at the 2022 RTE Radio1 Folk awards.
In addition to writing solo, Ciara is also a keen collaborator and has worked with many world class
songwriters and artists over the years including Grammy winner Don Henry, Grammy
nominated Drew Ramsey and Gary Burr as well as Northern Irelands finest Ryan McMullan, Gareth Dunlop and Ciaran Lavery.
On the live front Ciara has lots of highlights too, most notably playing in front of a US TV audience
of 60 million for Music City Roots, showcasing at Folk Alliance in Kansas City, representing
Northern Ireland in Brussels for culture night and representing Belfast as a UNESCO city of music
in London, Ontario in July 2023 where she played the main stage at Home County Music and Arts
Festival. Her numerous performances at the iconic Nashville venue the Bluebird Cafe and her
recent sold out headline shows for the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and Sound of Belfast also rank high among her ever growing list of achievements.
With a focus on her beautiful vocals and raw, poetic songwriting Ciara’s music is sure to appeal to
music lovers across the board including fans of other Irish artists Saint Sister and Lisa Hannigan.
Her new EP ‘Woman’ will be out in 2024.
‘Mesmerising, it takes you away like all good music should’
Ralph McLean BBC Radio Ulster
‘Ciara and her songs carry everything with such conviction, it makes her almost transparent.’
Folk Radio UK
‘Your new favourite, beautiful album.. 9/10’
Americana UK
‘A must listen for folk fans’
Hotpress Magazine

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