Music from the Heart

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Christine B Phelan - Without You (single)

Christine B Phelan is a musician, singer-songwriter & producer from Cork, Ireland. She has spent the past ten years writing, recording and touring.  As lead singer/writer with indie band ‘Parallel’, she released two studio albums, after which she set forth as a solo singer-songwriter. She released her debut EP ‘’Sapphire’’ in 2015 which consists of elements of folk, blues, pop and country, depicting influences such as Gillian Welsh, Lucinda Williams, Imelda May and Sheryl Crow.

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First Class & Coach - My Oh My (single)

Formed in 2017 by Reuben Maher (guitars, keys, vox) , Jonathan Parson (bass), Geraldine Thomas (vox) and Andrew McNeilage (drums) - their early gigs fused hard-edged guitar sounds with ambient keys, digital samples, and dance rhythms. These formative shows led the band towards honing their sound - immediate, distorted guitar hooks, driving bass lines, muscular drums and uncompromising vocals, delivered in both English and German.

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Trouble Pilgrims - 21st Century Girl Immunity Mix 2022 (single)

Formed in 2013 with the intention of continuing the legacy of The Radiators from Space but with a main focus on recording and performing brand new material the band have certainly lived up to that mantra. To date Trouble Pilgrims have released three singles, the much-lauded double A side debut of Animal Gang Blues c/w Who Do You Love?  which was followed in 2015 by Instant Polaroid (The Man on The Bridge). The band recorded their debut album over the summer of 2017 and the resulting work ‘Dark Shadows and Rust’ received its worldwide release to widespread acclaim on Chiswick Records via Ace on 27th October 2017 with a limited edition 180g red vinyl version released in January 2018.

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Louis McTeggart - I Used to Dance (single)

Louis McTeggart is a singer/songwriter based in Derry, Northern Ireland and he is now releasing his new single “I Used to Dance”. Louis is an accomplished and talented musician and songwriter who has travelled the world performing, recording and collaborating for over 20 years. He is now excited to release what he feels is the best song he has wrote in a long time.

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Micah - Stranger (single)

Stranger is the latest release by Irish singer Micah, making a change in her sound. It is a song inspired by dating app Tinder. The idea of trying to find ‘your’ person. However, when you begin dating you have some idea of what you are seeking in a partner or perhaps lover, and this is what the track tries to achieve with a pulsing beat and authentic storytelling. Lyrics and melody are by Micah and produced by LA based Killian Cruiser and mastered by Sony, Universal, Warner, EMI producer Christoph ‘Hadi’ Hassel.

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D.Cullen - Radio (single)

D.Cullen is a songwriter/musician from Dublin, Ireland. In 2019, his song "Alright" made waves at radio in Ireland and led to an acclaimed performance on Ireland's biggest TV chat show "The Late Late Show". He followed up in 2020 with a slew of equally addictive and uplifting releases - "The Rising Tide" EP, two singles ("Rainbow Weather' & "Birch Street") and a festive collaboration with Sinead McConville: "Christmas Ain't The Same (Miles & Miles Away)".

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Martin Praetorius - To the Dreamers (single)

The Essen, Germany born singer-songwriter has long been at home on the stages of the world and has toured in Scandinavia, Ireland, England and Scotland, Greenland and the USA.
He had been living on the road, touring constantly without a permanent base for a couple of years, when the pandemic stopped him in his tracks. Stranded on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the North of Germany, he started recording and releasing new material. Eoin O'Neill and Fiachna Ó Braonáin started playing him on Irish radio. He has been a regular since on an increasing number of radio stations across Ireland and the UK. His music couches somewhere in the twilight zone between Roots-Rock, Folk, Americana and Celtic influences.

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In The Echo: Field Recordings From Earlsfort Terrace

In The Echo is an eight-track concept compilation album, curated and produced by Ross Turner. Recorded in various locations in the historic National Concert Hall building in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin – ranging from old lecture theatres, to dis-used stairwells, to a former morgue – this record features collaborations between Irish musicians across an athletic span of musical traditions: Lisa O’Neill & Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Katie Kim & Seán Mac Erlaine, Paul Noonan & Roger Moffatt, Eileen Carpio & Sean Carpio, Conor O’Brien & Cian Nugent, Brigid Mae Power & Adrian Crowley, Saileóg Ní Cheannabháin & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, & Lisa Hannigan & Crash Ensemble. 

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Ruby Moss - If You Are (single)

Ruby Moss is 14 years old, originally from Trim County Meath now living in Cabra Dublin. Ruby's musical career began in St Patrick's Cathedral Choir School under the direction of the Master of Music there.  She studied music theory, piano and flute during her time in St Patrick's.  These studies have continued in addition to taking up guitar, button accordion and organ after Ruby was awarded a prestigious organ scholarship in Dundalk Grammar School.  Ruby plays flute with the school orchestra and is performing in the National Concert Hall in February with them.

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Laura-Mary Carter - Town Called Nothing (EP)

Laura - Mary Carter, best known as one half of rockers Blood Red Shoes, made her solo debut last December with the release of mini - album, Town Called Nothing. A much quieter and more contemplative sound than her usual guitar - shredding anthems, Town Called Nothing was written in between tours at various sublets and studios in the UK and Los Angeles. 

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