Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly
Mise Tusa (CD)

PRE-ORDER: EXPECTED TO SHIP 1 MAY

Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly return with their third collaborative album, deepening one of the most quietly distinctive partnerships in contemporary Irish music and spoken word. Rooted in rhythm, language, and attentive listening, their work lives at the meeting point of story, song, and soundscape, informed equally by tradition and experimentation, and guided by a shared instinct for atmosphere, restraint, and emotional honesty.

Rónán Ó Snodaigh, founding member of Kíla, poet, songwriter, and cultural agitator, brings a voice shaped by the Irish language, street-level politics, and decades of performance that blur chant, song, and invocation. Myles O’Reilly, filmmaker and composer, approaches sound as a visual thinker, creating environments where words can breathe and meaning unfolds slowly and intuitively. Together, they resist spectacle, favouring presence over performance and depth over declaration.

Across their three albums, a clear trajectory has emerged. Tá Go Maith, created during COVID, was an inward, cocooned work, subdued, tentative, and intimate, made for isolated listening and quiet steadiness. A Beautiful Road marked a turning outward, as audiences were invited back into shared space, with performances becoming communal gatherings shaped by call, response, and collective breath.

Mise Tusa completes this arc, not as an ending, but as an ignition. Where the first was isolation and the second was reunion, this record is a ceremony. It brings the listener to the rave, to the mountaintop, to the circle around the fire: the lighting of the flame, the marking of time, the shared trance. It is a collective ascent and a shedding of hesitation, a return to the old knowledge that music is not merely heard, but enacted. This is sound as ritual, rhythm as invocation, a summons to gather, to witness, and to be transformed together.

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