Javier Más
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:16 am
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A lot of people have that very same problem of which album to chooseThe Irish Times has called folk singer Niall Connolly "One of Ireland's most prolific song writers."
However, the publication adds that Connolly is "one of the country's most overlooked."
It's not for want of trying. In 2001, to help fund his first album, "Songs From A Corner," Connolly volunteered to be paid for participating in medical trials in Ireland's Cork City, from where Connolly hails. He got the album made.
Connolly believes that his ninth studio album, "The Patience of Trees," released in June, is his best yet.
"Patience of Trees" is what The Wave in Rockaway calls "an ambient, often Beatle-esque, tripp y, soundscapey, catalog of songs."
It's folk-pop in the best sense, with the influence of Leonard Cohen not overt, but lingering in the some of the arranged sounds and ironic/heartbreaking/love affirming lyrics….
"The Patience of Trees" also features Spanish guitarist Javier Más (from Leonard Cohen’s band), Anna Tivel (harmony and violin) as well as his New York City regular band. Connolly said the album's producer, Len Monachello, paid great attention to detail with arrangements, including the use of a mandolin, Mellotron, and Moog synthesizer.
The music Connolly listened to included Nirvana and R.E.M. He had an older sister with "a great record collection," but wondered, "what is this drony music coming out of her room?"
It was Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
"And then, I became obsessed," Connolly said, particularly with Cohen, whose albums, such as "Songs of Love and Hate," are considered singer-songwriter classics.
Eventually, Connolly would get to see Cohen perform three times, and has performed with Más, featured on "The Patience of Trees." "It was full circle for me," Connolly said.
Connolly said if he had to choose just one album that he could keep, it would be one by Cohen. "The only difficulty would be which Leonard Cohen album."
