Before The Stars Fall

Pregnant Pause

Like Glue

My first bigband! I wrote this at a time where I had too much on my mind and this helps calm me down every time I sing it.

I'm Fucked Today (Bigband version)

An Orientalist samples documentary footage from Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn, known for his work exploring the cultural connections between Ireland and the Arab world. Quinn’s theory, developed notably in his documentary series Atlantean, challenges conventional Western narratives by proposing that Irish identity, music, and traditions share ancient roots with North African and Arab cultures.

By weaving Quinn’s footage into An Orientalist, BADABADA deliberately fractures and reclaims the traditional “Orientalist” dynamic - the binary of observer and observed, colonizer and colonized. In Quinn’s framing, Irish people did not study Arab culture from a position of superiority or exoticism, but rather to recognize a  cultural hybridity. In this sense, BADABADA’s use of Quinn’s work becomes a form of "meta-Orientalism" - a reflection on how the gaze toward "the Other" inevitably reveals something about the self.

By blending Palestinian and Irish histories, and challenging the rigid separations that colonial narratives create, BADABADA flips Orientalism inside out: the Irish and Arab subjects are no longer passive objects of study, but active participants in a shared story of survival and resistance. The track An Orientalist humorously, but sharply, exposes how the act of "studying the Other" is often, at its core, a study of oneself.

Track 1: An Orientalist (Live in B7L9)

Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

Tracklist

Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant
Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean
David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois
Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl
Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa
Gout – Newcastle
Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh
Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother
Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death
The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers
Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt
Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band
Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain
Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf
Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows

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FDN LXI

can it be the music

what the fuck

Samhradh, Samhradh / Ornette’s

A sound collage created purely from samples from a voice memo of two best friends playing with a loud speaker and two walkie talkies (and then I just added "prepare for takeoff, prepare for landing")

can it be the music

Husa

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