Music from the Heart

A multi-Instrumentalist, songwriter, hair stylist and retro-vintage aficionado, this iconic and stylish gentleman is most recently known as keyboardist/guitarist for Dublin alt-rock heroes The Pale. Indeed, Ger Eaton has been a mainstay of the Irish music scene for many years as a member of Premonition (EMI), Las Vegas Basement (Columbia), Les Marionettes, Pugwash, The Carnival Brothers and many solo and collaborative recordings. 

Throughout this time he also recorded and toured extensively with, among others, Mundy, Duke Special, Jack L and Fionn Regan, playing everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to the ‘Later With Jools Holland’ TV Show.

"Season Changes was born out of a newly strung guitar and a late night rewatching of The Wicker Man. I've always found one of the most useful tools as a songwriter is using different instruments (from my ever-expanding eclectic collection!) to form a song’s cornerstone.  In the case of Season Changes, it was my old Fender acoustic guitar that I'd just restrung in Nashville tuning. It seemed to give it an almost ethereal quality that guided the formation of the song’s hypnotic and echoing arpeggio. I found myself happily picking the same chord shape for hours, my mind lost in its musical simplicity, yet also acutely aware of its endless melodic potential.

Later that evening, to switch off and unwind, I decided to rewatch one of my favourite films, The Wicker Man, the folk horror classic from 1973 ... and so the song’s journey

began. The song itself deals with the often inevitable decay of a relationship, from the glowing bloom of its Spring, gradually ebbing away to its Wintry conclusion."

Season Changes is a sonic, visual and a sensual adventure. The arrangement makes you feel the wintery cold on your skin, the sounds make you shiver.  The dark track has a haunting feel, as if you sensed from the start that there is something sinister going to happen very soon.

"Winter's icey fingers scratching at belief

Laying bare my very soul"