atlas
Tough times demand beautiful music. Poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy wrote 'We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams'. Cillian King and Cillian Doheny have dreamed up a beautiful suite of music on AFFINITY: music that takes you into the space between - the space that connects us all - the space that soothes - the space where all is fluid and possible. Take a brief journey today and listen to this wonderful album. And then come back tomorrow to hear it all.
release date: january 27, 2017
About atlas
ATLAS compromises of Cillian Doheny (Guitars) & Cillian King (concertina), both natives of Limerick, Ireland, who first crossed paths through the Irish traditional music festival circuit as teenagers. They immediately struck up an intense musical friendship having diverse but similar tastes in music & composition, particularly orchestral/soundtrack and contemporary Irish music.
Making an album together had always been aspiration but with Cillian Doheny touring heavily with his Neo-Irish outfit 'MOXIE' and King on the circuit as a session musician while completing his studies, they decided to use that time to grow as musicians and people, and Atlas was shelved temporarily. However, in late 2014 when the time was right, the pair became housemates in Dublin and began definite work on their debut album. All composition and pre-production for this album took place in the Dublin apartment with both Cillian's still juggling several other projects and studies at university.
In late November 2015 ATLAS launched a Kickstarter campaign to secure funding to record 'Affinity' and with popular demand for the record, they reached their target with time to spare. Filmed and recorded in an old church which has become a centre for the arts in Belfast, 'Affinity' which sees Atlas accompanied by string quartet and percussion, represents all the music these musicians have grown up with and the music they have to grown to love in more recent times. From delicate string arrangements reminiscent of Sigur Rós to cascades of sound from the ethereal world of Jon Hopkins, they have added an ingredient that is inherently Irish to the mix to create a record that encompasses where they have come from and where they are going.
The debut album 'Affinity' by ATLAS will be released nationally in Ireland on November 18th 2016 and internationally on January 27th 2017 via popular jazz & world record label, Ropeadope Records.