The Gloaming – The Gloaming

A contemporary masterwork where traditional sean-nós song meets ambient chamber folk. The quintet thrives on textural interplay: Martin Hayes's lyrical fiddle converses with Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's resonant hardanger d'amore, framed by Dennis Cahill's understated guitar and Thomas Bartlett's rolling, impressionistic piano chords. Beneath Iarla Ó Lionáird's evocative Irish-language vocals on poems like Tá Mo Chleamhnas Déanta, the band crafts a shifting, nocturnal atmosphere where acoustic space matters as much as melody.