Collaborations, by Úna Keane

Collaborations

by Úna Keane

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annquinn I love your music, Úna. This album is amazing, it is so powerful and atmospheric. All the best, Ann

PadraigC Hello Úna,
I saw the link to your new release on Facebook, listened to it and loved it. Today I saw it was bandcamp Friday, so what better day to purchase your new album ;-) Am checking out your earlier releases too. Have a great weekend. P.

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8.5 / 10 - Hot Press
★★★★ - The Irish Times
Irish Album of the Year - Broadsheet.ie
"Beautiful music to get lost in" - The Sunday Times
"Unforgettable... improvisation of the highest calibre" - Broadsheet.ie

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Deluxe Edition 12" Vinyl of critically-acclaimed Live Album Collaborations (Irish Album of the Year - Broadsheet.ie, 8.5/10 - Hot Press, 4/5 - The Irish Times). Includes a Double Insert printed on 130gm matt paper stock with beautiful Ink-drawings & design by Úna. Also includes photos, liner notes & the story behind the album. Comes personally signed by Úna.

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CD edition of critically-acclaimed Live Album Collaborations. The disc mimics the 12" Vinyl in appearance, but is in fact a CD. Comes with a folded Insert printed on 130gm matt paper stock. Also includes photos, liner notes & the story behind the album. Outer pocket handmade using upcycled burlap fabric ; features ink Lino-print of the Pepper Canister Church in Dublin. Comes personally signed by Úna.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Lumen, Kyiv Not Kiev, Collaborations, In the Deep, and As I wake, still I dream. , and , .

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1.	Silvaticus // Sunrise 03:55	buy track
2.	Hollow 08:57	buy track
3.	As the mood takes you 08:13	buy track
4.	Rivers 07:30	buy track
5.	Typewriter Song II 05:31	buy track
6.	Piano Squared 04:22	buy track
7.	Behold the beauty (of land & sea) 02:26	buy track
8.	Porta Nuova Reimagined 04:01	buy track
9.	When you don't push 04:46	buy track
10.	All that breathes // Anaphoric 05:06	buy track
11.	Seas Ascending 07:06	buy track

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Úna Keane is a composer, producer & performer from Dublin. She blends piano, electronics, movement & film. Since the release of piano solo LP ‘As I Wake, Still I Dream’ in 2017, she’s been steadily building a following on the ambient, neoclassical scene. Her use of cyclical patterns and looped motifs produces music that mines deep whilst conjuring cinematic landscape; recurring themes in her work link music, nature & science.

Lauren Murphy, reviewing sophomore LP ‘In the Deep’ (2019) for The Irish Times drew comparisons to the work of Ólafur Arnalds and Max Richter, citing her use of looped tracks and field recordings, while RTE 2FM's Dan Hegarty heralded it as a "stunning piece of work that will have you floating from tears to joy". Of her work over the past few years, Tony Clayton-Lea has named her "probably one of the best exponents of instrumental music that comes from a quiet, calm place”.

The Dubliner released critically-acclaimed Live Album 'Collaborations’ at the end of 2020 (“one of the few artists in the world to release a live album recorded in 2020” – Nialler 9). Recorded live at The Pepper Canister Church a week before the first lockdown, it features Stephen Shannon, Liam Ó'Maonlaí, Lōwli, Gareth Quinn Redmond & Ronán Conroy. Named Irish Album of the Year by Broadsheet.ie ("unforgettable...improvisation of the highest calibre"), it garnered a glowing 8.5/10 review from Hot Press Magazine and 4 stars from The Irish Times. The concert was recorded, mixed and mastered by Adam KJ, and Úna & Adam co-produced. Following the warm reception to the record, a limited edition vinyl pressing of the album was released on her UKM imprint label in 2021.

Her work has received regular airplay on RTE Radio 1, RTE 2FM, RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta, Newstalk, RTE Lyric FM, BBC Across the Line and on Martin Bridgeman's KCLR FM show Ceol Anocht.

In addition to composing & releasing her own music, she’s also been building a portfolio of film scoring commissions: “La Petite Mort” (2019) written & directed by Michael Smiley (Kill List, The Lobster) was short-listed at Galway Film Fleadh and Film Festa Roma. In 2020 she was invited to score the music for Dance Film ‘Silvaticus’ – a 3-way collaboration between Contemporary Dancer / Choreographer Jana Castillo (AUS) & Film-maker Sinéad McDevitt (IRE). The film was subsequently premiered by Hot Press on 21.01.21. In 2021 Úna was commissioned by the Gallery of Photography to take part in a collaborative NFT project called 'Galleries With[out] Walls', in association with RCC Letterkenny & the Museum of CryptoArt NYC (MoCA). She’s currently working on a new Arts Council-funded project called TIDAL, which explores the passage / flow of tidal energy generated in a lunar cycle: through music, electronics, light installation, spoken word and field recordings.
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"Beautiful music to get lost in" – The Sunday Times

"Testament to the wonderful mysteries of sound" – John Kelly

“A live release is a rarity in 2020 but the hush and rapture that Keane evokes is something to treasure in more ways than one” – The Irish Times

“Keane's magical creations knit together layer after layer of sonic soaring and swelling for an immersive live experience” – Hot Press

"Go and experience the genius that is Úna Keane. She'll take you away and hopefully you'll make it back" - Michael Smiley

“..sparse electronics and the nature theme pervading most of the album elegantly evoke at times the music of the late Mayo pianist Conor Walsh”– Spellbinding Music

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released November 27, 2020

CREDITS

MUSICAL CREDITS:

Úna Keane - Upright Piano, Loops, Sampler, Harmonica, Typewriter
Liam Ó'Maonlaí - Voice, Tin Whistle, Bodhrán
Stephen Shannon - Electronics, Pads
Lōwli - Grand Piano
Gareth Quinn Redmond - Violin
Ronán Conroy - Organ

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Adam KJ - Live Sound, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered & Producer
Úna Keane - Producer, Artwork, Design

SPECIAL THANKS:

Rick Cox, Siobhan McElroy, Elizabeth Mooney, Sarah Loughman, Caroline Mullen & Peter Jones

Photography - Maeve Brennan & Shaun Davin
Vinyl Pressing - Rotator Vinyl

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Úna Keane is a composer, producer & performer from Dublin. She blends piano, electronics, movement & film.

Her use of cyclical patterns and looped motifs produces music that mines deep whilst conjuring cinematic landscape; recurring themes in her work link music, nature & science. ... more

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