Live version of the Irish love song, accompanied impromptu by David Ayers on guitar, Marc-Ivan on drums, Eric on piano and Evan McDermott on bass guitar, at a house jam party in Carlow in July 2013.   

She moved through the fair

A story about a woman I met in a supermarket in Dublin. She was apparently looking for closure.
This performance was recorded live at Milk and Cookies show in Steambox on 10 September 2013. Thanks to Chad Buterbaugh for the recording. 

Goodbye, Ma

This is a tale performed by storyteller The Oh-Aissieux in collaboration with Ambiencellist Claire Fitch and recorded live at the Narrative Arts Club's Lost Souls' Electronic Cellist show in the Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Baile Átha Cliath, on the evening of Wednesday 9 November 2011.


Eye Soup

Composer Donal Mac Erlaine produced this improvised guitar track on the spot while The Oh-Aissieux recounted the old Inuit tale of the creation of Sun and Moon through an act of incest.  

Sun and Moon - with Donal Mac Erlaine

This is a joint performance in which Donal Mac Erlaine plays an improvised guitar track while The Oh-Aissieux tells a Danish folktale about the notoroiusly wise people of Mols. With no more than a hint that this was a comedic piece, Donal began to play and Coilín then told the tale, pacing his delivery to suit the music..
This is the tale of two men who are affrighted by a fearsome enemy.

The Molbos hear the drums of war

Ambiencellist improvises a soundscape for The Oh-Aissieux's telling of how Midhir contrived to take a second wife, Éadaoin, and how his first wife took revenge. This track is unedited, as recorded by Ambiencellist Claire Fitch at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin on 2 February, 2012. 

Éadaoin banished

Ambiencellist Claire Fitch and guitarist Donal Mac Erlaine improvise to the theme of sorrow and wonder, while The Oh-Aissieux tells the Tibetan tale of the birth of Gesar. This track was recorded by Ambiencellist at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin on 4 February 2012 and edited by The Oh-Aissieux. Copyright 2012 by The Oh-Aissieux, Ambiencellist and Donal Mac Erlaine. 

The birth of Gesar

Excerpt from a "new bardic" performance of a part of the old Irish epic Immram Curaig Máele Dúin, The Voyage of Máel Dúin, by Ambiencellist Claire Fitch and The Oh-Aissieux. This track was recorded by Claire Fitch live at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin on 2 February, 2012, and edited by The Oh-Aissieux. 
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The island of the little cat

He shouldn’t have brought anybody else – the druid said he should only have brought those seventeen with him – but his three foster-brothers insisted on going with him, and so the voyage was accursed. 

This telling of an episode from Máel Dúin’s voyage was recorded by Claire Fitch live at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin on 2 February 2012, and edited by The Oh-Aissieux. 

Tale: The Oh-Aissieux 
Cello: Claire Fitch 
Guitar: Donal Mac Erlaine 

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The island of the choir

An ancient Irish tale about a man of the Tuatha Dé Danann who pursued his wife down through the centuries and into another incarnation. This tale may help to explain why the Irish call the people of the underworld "the Good People" - because if you cross them, they are good at making you regret it.

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