Results for "Barry Donohue"

Barry Donohue

Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

By Aleka Potinga

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mociriță Cu Trifoi ; Până Când Nu Te Iubeam ; Trece-un Nouraş Pe Sus ; Song.

Aleka Potinga: Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2024

You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into the city's fluid jazz/improvised music scenes, working with Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle, Tommy Halferty and Cello Ireland. Her debut album Person I Knew (Self-Produced, 2019) ...

Stella Bass: Look For The Silver Lining

by Ian Patterson
February 7, 2024

It is an enviable trait to always look for the silver lining in troubled times. For Dublin vocalist Stella Bass, when gigs dried up during the Covid pandemic, the silver lining was the gift of time. She did not waste it, studying music production with Berklee College, Boston, and music composition & arranging with Studio Orchestrations, ...

BigSpoon's Chris Engel: Intention... And Spontaneity

by Ian Patterson
September 14, 2022

So much goes into a debut album—a lifetime of learning, experiences and myriad influences. The music that springs forth is also often shaped in subtle and unfathomable ways that are sometimes not entirely clear even to the composer. Some musical reference points may appear obvious, others much less so, and so it is with ...

West

By Umbra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: L.A.; San Francisco; Intro to Portland; Portland; Intro to Seattle; Seattle; Vancouver.

Umbra: West

by Ian Patterson
September 15, 2018

American road trips have long inspired writers, from Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck and Tom Wolfe, to Hunter S. Thompson, Robert M. Pirsig and Bill Bryson. Fewer are the extended works, similarly inspired, written by musicians. Some things, it seems, may be easier put into words. Umbra's West is inspired by founding member Chris Guilfoyle's 2017 road ...

Aleka Potinga: Aleka

by Ian Patterson
November 21, 2017

Aleka is the eponymous debut EP--and stage-name--of Alexandra-Ioana Potinga, a Romanian jazz vocalist and cellist based in Dublin. Aleka performs in several bands, as vocalist in Tommy Halferty's Camus Jazz and as cellist/backing vocalist with Ruba Shamshoum. This outing features her working band at time of recording (bassist Barry Donohue has since replaced Kevin Higgins) on ...