Praglia is a migrant's album, a meeting point for songs written and rewritten in various locations throughout Ireland, Italy and the American Southwest during the last two years, gathered together and recorded in a remote wooden house, nestled in the titular high plains which overlook the city of Genoa. 

The songs themselves are intricate and intimate, with fragments of clarinet, cavaquinho and hang layered over a base of fingerstyle guitar and melancholy baritone. They speak of obscure, dreamlike places ("the tattooed wilderness", "the origami wasteland", "the burning fountain"), peopled by a motley symbolist cast (the "Tetris angels", the "patois crow" and the enigmatic "Steven"). This distilled vocabulary charts a cryptic psychogeography; each listener must (re)align landmarks and archetypes in order to unearth its hidden narratives. 

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contact: joelcathcartmusic@gmail.com

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Joel Cathcart