Country by country, from one energy explosion to the next, Dónal Dineen presents an illustrated guide to the musical universe. No stone unturned. All the colours, every mood. /// Written and Presented by Dónal Dineen Produced and Edited by Ian Cudmore ///
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We Are The Makers is a new audio documentary series focusing on the work of contemporary Irish artists and their practice. Built around extensive interviews with some of Ireland’s most eminent artists, these quarterly transmissions will be part portrait, part diary, travelogue and soundscape. With the makers as our guide, these are deep-dives into back catalogues and entire bodies of work. Dispatches from the eye of the hurricane and heart of the matter. Written and presented by Dónal Dineen ...
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A unique music video and adjoining podcast series funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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Episode 4 - Donal Dineen
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'Willingdon Island' (Donal Dineen & Peter Martin) is Part 4 of Trick Mist's 'Tracing Places’ series (funded by the Arts Council of Ireland). The project involves 4 artists making 4 videos (without Trick Mist's involvement) for 4 new songs and an adjoining podcast series.Trick Mist tarafından oluşturuldu
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Episode 3 - Graham Patterson
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'Boring Bread' (Graham Patterson) is Part 3 of Trick Mist's ‘Tracing Places’ series (funded by the Arts Council of Ireland). The project involves 4 artists making 4 videos (without Trick Mist's involvement) for 4 new songs and an adjoining podcast series.Trick Mist tarafından oluşturuldu
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May I Introduce to You...? Vol: 14 - New Music in 2022
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This is the first in a short series of Make Me An Island episodes chronicling the best new music released worldwide in 2022. In this opening chapter there's an ode to fresh electronic sounds in the shape of debut releases from Naty Seres from Berlin, Surusinghe from London and Deekapz out of São Paolo. There's proof of why Shygirl has been one of t…
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Fresh Éire Volume 3
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On this third Fresh Éire installment, Dónal goes digging for fire among a plethora of new Irish releases. There's a written response to Anna Mieke's magnificent sophomore album Theatre and a tribute to the independent Dublin label Where The Time Goes with a couple of examples of dynamic recent releases from them in the shape of Jennifer Moore and S…
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Fresh Éire Volume 2
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On this episode, Dónal trawls through a significant bunch of homegrown releases in search of gold. Indicative of just how healthy a state Irish music is in 2022, he finds it aplenty. There's a wide range of styles to admire and enjoy from Lisa O'Neill's glorious return with Old Note to Eoghan O Ceannabháin's singular sound on his stunning solo debu…
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May I Introduce To You? Volume 13
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Diving in at the deep end after a summer hiatus, Dónal Dineen presents a guide to the most essential new music and re-issues from around the world. He strikes gold twice upon encounters with the enchanting song-world of Japanese artist Hatis Noit and the glorious amalgamation of sounds that comprises the compelling solo work of Californian violinis…
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Episode 6 // Olwen Fouéré // Performance Artist
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In the sixth and final episode of the series, presenter Dónal Dineen meets one of Ireland’s most important contemporary theatre and performance artists, Olwen Fouéré, an artist known for her remarkable and often physical performances. Fouéré - whose extensive practice navigates theatre, film, the visual arts, music, dance theatre and literature, sp…
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Full episode streams on Saturday October 15th. In the sixth and final episode of the series, presenter Dónal Dineen meets one of Ireland’s most important contemporary theatre and performance artists, Olwen Fouéré, an artist known for her remarkable and often physical performances. Fouéré - actor, writer, director and performance artist talks with D…
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An Illustrated Guide to the Music of Columbia with B+
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Recorded live on the All Curious Minds stage at the All Together Now festival in Waterford on July 31st, Dónal takes a deep dive into the music of Columbia with regular islander and all-round fount of knowledge, Brian Cross AKA B+.Donal Dineen tarafından oluşturuldu
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Episode 2 - Bob Gallagher & Vala Kjarval
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'Flagbearer' (Bob Gallagher) is Part 2 of Trick Mist's ‘Tracing Places’ series (funded by the Arts Council of Ireland). The project involves 4 artists making 4 videos (without Trick Mist's involvement) for 4 new songs and an adjoining podcast series.Trick Mist tarafından oluşturuldu
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Summer Heat 2: An Island Story; The Gwo Ka sound of Guadeloupe
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Dónal’s search for the perfect summer dancing soundtrack takes him to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe where he takes a deep-dive into the ancient Gwo Ka sound. The journey begins and ends in land-locked Zimbabwe however where we tune into the emotional sound of The Movers who are just about to have a comprehensive retrospective released by the e…
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May I Introduce To You? Volume 12 - Summer Heat Edition
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To compensate for the lack of actual sunshine, Dónal Dineen takes a trip closer to the equator in this episode to visit the Cape Verde islands and Haiti in search of the perfect summer soundtrack. The journey starts off in land-locked Mexico where we hear an example of the Rebajada sound - where the sonideros (sound-system operators) were fond of s…
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May I Introduce To You? Volume 11
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This week’s trawl through the megahertz begins at home with Dónal reviewing two new standout Irish releases. There’s a radiant new single from Aoife Nessa Frances and the long-awaited sophomore record from Caoímhín O’Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman, The Fate of Bones. We skip to northern Mali to marvel at the latest offering from desert blues royalty T…
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Episode 5 // Michael Keegan-Dolan // Choreographer
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Hot on the heels of The Dance, Pat Collins’ masterful documentary on the same subject, Episode Five of We Are The Makers takes a deep-dive into the making of a contemporary theatrical masterpiece, Mám, by choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2019. Our host Dónal Dineen travels to the West Kerry home …
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'The Junction' (Katie Ball) is Part 1 of Trick Mist's ‘Tracing Places’ series (funded by the Arts Council of Ireland). The project involves 4 artists making 4 videos (without Trick Mist's involvement) for 4 new songs and an adjoining podcast series.Trick Mist tarafından oluşturuldu
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Full episode streams on Saturday April 30th. Hot on the heels of The Dance, Pat Collins’ masterful documentary on the same subject, Episode Five of We Are The Makers takes a deep-dive into the making of a contemporary theatrical masterpiece, Mám, by choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2019. This epi…
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May I Introduce To You? Volume 10
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This week’s trawl through the megahertz throws up some sizzling summer dance floor heat from Ireland, Germany and New Zealand. First up is the collaboration between Icelandic queen Mr Silla and uncrowned Irish electronica king New Jackson. Five years in the making, Holding On was worth the wait. DJ Koze’s sound-clash with Sophia Kennedy is equally …
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May I Introduce To You? Part 9
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The long-awaited sophomore solo concertina album “B” from Cormac Begley is our album of the week/month/year and in this latest instalment of our series on new musical discoveries, Dónal explains why. We also get to marvel at some more instrumental virtuosity from saxophonists Alabaster dePlume and Patrick Shiroishi. There’s a pair of exciting dispa…
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May I Introduce To You? Part 8
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Some more examples of electronic experimentation from the wild frontier open this 8th instalment of our guide to new music. Firstly ELLES from Lisbon then Lyra Pramuk from Berlin and Okou & Casey MQ from Paris set the twilight reeling. The intriguing rapping style of South London Vietnamese artist Triad God is just one of the things that set him ap…
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May I Introduce To You? Part7
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The DIY bedroom-producer stars of this episode are Joseph Kamaru from Nairobi recording in Berlin under the name KMRU, Tristan Arp from Mexico City and CARM out of New York. We celebrate the release of the wonderful new record from Inni-K which fashions a new sonic cloak for the ancient sean-nós form and re-visit the music of Nicolas Jaar and his d…
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May I Introduce To You? Part 6
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Episode Six starts off with some DIY magic from Budapest courtesy of Goshaven before relocating to the Parisian suburb of Montreuil to hear the freshest of Moroccan-Egyptian hybrid rap from TripleGo. Homage is paid to the all-powerful street-fired Kinshasa collective Kasai Allstars and to the electronic pioneer and unique musical spirit Beverly Gle…
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May I Introduce To You? Part 5 - New Music in 2021
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Dónal presents a fifth instalment to the rough guide to the year in new music 2021. This leg of the journey starts with some instrumental wonders from Kuwait via Senegal before checking out some more DIY masterpieces from bedrooms in Brooklyn and Moscow. There's underground magic from the evergreen musical hotspots of Berlin and the East End of Lon…
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May I Introduce To You..? - Part 4 - New Music in 2021
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Dónal presents a fourth instalment of the rough guide to the year in new music 2021. This leg of the journey takes in more sounds of resistance from the streets of Philadelphia and Cleveland before celebrating some UK DIY masterpieces from Bristol, London and Glasgow. There's also another example of that particularly unique kind of magic coming fro…
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May I introduce To You..? Part 3 - New Music in 2021
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Dónal presents a third instalment of the rough guide to the year in new music, 2021. This leg of the journey includes some very modern takes on classical music from India and Guatemala via Mexico as well fresh rap sounds from Paris and Jamaica and an African percussion supergroup based in London. There's innovative electronic compositions from Peru…
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May I Introduce To You...? Part 2 - New Music in 2021
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Dónal presents a sound map of the year of 2021 in new music. This second instalment delves into the work of future guest islanders, Karl Jonas Winqvist and Mario Batkovic. It also marks the glorious return of Colleen in 2021 before celebrating the latest wave of fresh magic from the musical hotspot of Chicago in the shape of Noname, Angel Bat Dawid…
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May I Introduce To You...? New Music in 2021
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In another singular twelve months for new sounds Dónal charts the year in tunes. The stated criterion is that it's new names only but some diversions are taken to include essential releases from familiar artists like Shirley Collins, Dean Blunt and Oneohtrix Point Never. Otherwise it's a voyage of discovery all the way from the frozen north in Norw…
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Fresh Éire Part 2: This Year‘s Loves
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An entirely incomprehensive review of another certifiably brilliant year for Irish music. Dónal guides us through a selection of this year's loves showcasing the extraordinary range of great sounds emerging from this island in 2021. Support Irish music on Bandcamp: https://countersunk.bandcamp.com/album/superstrate https://strangeboytheweirdo.bandc…
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Episode 4 // Denise Chaila and Brian Cross (B+)
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Episode Four features a new collaboration from two Limerick artists, rapper and poet Denise Chaila and filmmaker Brian Cross (B+). Their piece, Energy: A Visual Mixtape is a short film like no other, at just 15 minutes long, it contains a multitude. The film eulogizes local Limerick spaces including Ardnacrusha Power Station, Mount Trenchard House …
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Episode Four features a new collaboration from two Limerick artists, rapper and poet Denise Chaila and filmmaker Brian Cross (B+). Their piece, Energy: A Visual Mixtape is a short film like no other, at just 15 minutes long, it contains a multitude. The film eulogizes local Limerick spaces including Ardnacrusha Power Station, Mount Trenchard House …
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Shared Notes: A Journey into Sound with Martin Hayes at the NCH
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In association with the National Concert Hall, a Make Me An Island Live special edition with Martin Hayes. To mark the release of his autobiography, Shared Notes, Martin gives Dónal an illustrated guide to the many twists and turns that have marked his singular journey into sound. From his first steps with the Tulla Céilí Band in East Clare through…
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Samhain Special Part 2 - Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly
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The ground-breaking album Tá Go Maith is one of the year’s finest. Recorded live at the Sugar Club on October 20th, Dónal gets a guided tour of the inspiration behind the record and the story of its creation from Rónán O’Snodaigh and producer Myles O’Reilly before listening to a selection of tunes played live in the room. https://ronanosnodaigh.ban…
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October Bank Holiday Special Part 1 - Louise Mulcahy and Natalya O‘Flaherty Live at The Sugar Club
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Recorded live at the Sugar Club in Dublin on October 20th, 2021, this show is dedicated to the recently departed master box player and genius film-maker, Tony Mc Mahon. Uilleann piper Louise Mulcahy leads the tribute with a stirring version of Port na bPucaí before talking in-depth about her forthcomng film on Irish women pipers, Mná na bPíob. Spok…
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Episode #3 // Isabel Nolan // Visual Artist
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Episode Three is an exploration of the work of visual artist Isabel Nolan, with particular emphasis on the making of her latest exhibition, A Delicate Bond Which is Also a Gap, at Solstice Arts Centre in Navan. Isabel has an expansive practice incorporating sculpture, painting, textile work, photography, writing and works on paper, driven by a rest…
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Can you Fenit? Cathal Caufield and Kú in the Kingdom
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The last episode in our summer 2021 series was recorded at Mike and Gráinne O'Neill's Beach Cafe in the seaside village of Fenit in North Kerry. We're conducting some more musical introductions in this edition as both Cathal Caufield and Killian O'Flanagan, recording as Kú, are at the beginning of their journeys into sound. We listen to their respe…
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Episode #3 of We Are The Makers is an exploration of the work of visual artist Isabel Nolan, with particular emphasis on the making of her latest exhibition, A Delicate Bond Which is Also a Gap, at Solstice Arts Centre in Navan. The full episode streams on September 25th. Isabel has an expansive practice incorporating sculpture, painting, textile w…
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Introducing Rufous Nightjar
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Donal travels to Ennistymon in County Clare to meet up with Anna-Mieke, Branwen and Zoe Basha who have taken their Rufous Nightjar project on the road for the first time. We get to hear how they first got together and what's in store with their debut album which is nearing completion. We also get to listen to some stunning live takes form their sho…
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Gulliver's Twist: Introducing John Francis Flynn
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To mark the release of his debut solo record I Would Not Live Always, John Francis Flynn joins Dónal Dineen to discuss the making of the album in the company of some key collaborators: Ultan O'Brien, Ross Chaney and producer Brendan Jenkinson. We then journey to heart of a Dublin Saturday night for a selection of tunes at The Cobblestone before tak…
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The Summer installment of our sister series to the Islands, We Are The Makers, is out today. Commissioned by Solas Nua in Washington D.C., episode #2 charts the arc of choreographer Liz Roche's journey to the top of the contemporary dance world. Find the full episode here: https://pod.link/makers From starting at ballet school in Dublin at aged of …
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Episode #2 // Liz Roche // Choreographer
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Episode Two charts the arc of choreographer Liz Roche's journey to the top of the contemporary dance world. From starting at ballet school in Dublin at aged of seven, through training in London Contemporary Dance School, to dancing across Europe, Dónal hears how her education and experience onstage informs her finely wrought and beautifully choreog…
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Streaming in full from tomorrow, June 26th, Episode #2 of We Are the Makers charts the arc of choreographer Liz Roche's journey to the top of the contemporary dance world. Together she and Dónal talk about the act of making, the collision of sound, movement and image, and the cross-disciplinary influences that have inspired her art and career. We A…
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Master at Work: Steve Cooney's Solo Guitar Interpretations of Ancient Irish Harp Tunes: Ceol Ársa Cláirsí
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In Dublin to perform the album Ceol Ársa Cláirsí at the Tradition Now weekender in the National Concert Hall, Steve Cooney's interpretations of ancient Irish harp tunes for solo guitar has added something new to the canon. There’s ancient magic at work here as these tunes were either composed or collected from the beginning of the 1600s to the end …
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On Two Wings and a Prayer: The Electric Guitar Gospel According to Reverend Utah Smith
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Reverend Utah Smith was an evangelist preacher based in New Orleans who from 1938 onwards added some electric guitar fire to his sermons as well a pair of two giant seraphim white wings to his back. In this epsiode Donal listens to the incendiary records he released between 1944 and 1953 which puts him very close to the scene of the big bang birth …
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Why the Caged Bird Sings: The Story of Ted Hawkins' Watch Your Step
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With the help of some clips from the legendary BP Fallon Orchestra interview with the man himself from April 1987, Dónal Dineen goes on a personal journey to the heart of Ted Hawkins' masterpiece from the penitentiary, Watch Your Step.Donal Dineen tarafından oluşturuldu
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Easter Breaks Birthday Mix
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April 8th marks the first anniversary of the launch of Make Me Me An Island. To mark the occasion, talking is mostly suspended in Episode 46 and instead Dónal reverts to the original source of inspiration, the box of 7” singles that formed the foundation for many of the original investigations. Peppering the melting pot is a bunch of incendiary new…
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The Unique Sound World of Jennifer Walshe
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For 20 years Jennifer Walshe has blazed a trail across the world of contemporary music, all the while making work that was far greater than the sum of its parts and much much more than simply music. Far from being high brow or inaccessible, the most human of touches shapes everything she does in all sorts of magical ways. Jennifer joins Dónal to di…
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Make me an Islander #10 with Villagers
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From the very first demos, the arc of the Villagers story has pointed inexorably upwards, always reaching for the higher ground, a climb like no other. In this episode Conor O'Brien joins Dónal in The Sugar Club for a discussion on some of those lofty peaks and how he got there. In-between there's a bunch of live songs as well as a run through some…
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An introduction to We Are The Makers, a new series of long-form audio documentaries on Irish artists and their practice. Released today across all the usual platforms, and commissioned by Solas Nua in Washington D.C., first up is photographer Eamonn Doyle who before making a series of groundbreaking photo books of his Dublin street-work, had alread…
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Episode #1 // Eamonn Doyle // Photographer
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Episode one follows the many creative journeys of Eamonn Doyle. Told through in-depth interviews with Dónal Dineen, we trace his impact on the world of electronic music and Ireland's musical underground before charting his meteoric rise to the top of the photography world. His unique ability to mine the poetic and the extraordinary from the ebb and…
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The cultural map of contemporary Ireland is a rich tapestry of many interweaving threads and cross-flowing patterns made of form, light and sound. In We are the Makers we will be making our own marks on this ever-changing map by pulling on individual threads and following those lines all the way back to the creative source and well of inspiration. …
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An Illustrated Guide to Arthur Russell's Iowa Dream with Peter Broderick
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The latest in a series of stunning posthumous Arthur Russell releases, Iowa Dream plays to all of his many strengths. Recorded in The Sugar Club in December, Episode 42 features an illustrated guide to the album by an artist who had an integral role to play in its compilation, editing and mixing, Peter Broderick. Peter explains how he came to be in…
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