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Featuring Laura Quirke and Claire Kinsella, Lemoncello recently released their self-titled debut, which won the praises of KLOF Mag.
The album was reviewed by Danny Neill, who opens, “‘Lemoncello’ is one of those records that has a binding sound all the way whilst boasting an incredible range of tones, moods, and textures within each individual song. The sonic glue I refer to is a sort of ethereal, harmonious, ever-shifting sheen of a topcoat gliding across a tense, grinding underbelly of distortion and vibration.”
He also picked up on the production and unique sound, noting: “But there is something about the sound that has a tactile element to it, a real tread to its motion that you do not always hear on music that has enough pastoral moments to equally be described as floating and shimmering. I think I may have found the answer, though, when I learned that the record was recorded directly to tape with analogue-loving producer Julie McLarnon overseeing proceedings. To my ears music always benefits from a few rough edges, or as vinyl lovers would call it “background noise” and there is indeed a leaning in that direction to be found here. The band themselves say, “it was such a joy working with Julie. We didn’t look at a computer screen the whole time making the record.”
Today, Lemoncello have shared a video diary that provides a deeper look at the making of the album on 2-inch tape with Julie McLarnon at Analogue Catalogue Studios in Newry, Northern Ireland. The duo told us:
“Recording at Analogue Catalogue was a very fun, freeing experience. We went up and down to Rathfriland many times over the course of a year or so. One of the main joys of working there was working with producer Julie McLarnon and how she made us sound new to ourselves in her recording techniques and choices. Her whole education and recording work has been through analogue, and her style very much made it into the production of the record and just the overall feeling of the thing. Recording to tape definitely gave us some limitations and challenges that you wouldn’t have with digital recording, but we think those, for the most part, served the music. It was like being back in a playroom as a child, with instruments, toys everywhere and a big tape machine to record all the play and no screen to look at.
“It was a delight to bring up friends to work out the arrangements and record with us – Lorcan Byrne, Caimin Gilmore, Gareth Quinn Redmond, Ronan Kealy and Mossy Nolan – they really brought so much life and energy to the songs.”
Lemoncello is out now on Claddagh Records. Order it here: https://lemoncello.lnk.to/lemoncello
UK dates beginning this month including London’s Moth Club and Cambridge Folk Festival in July.
Details: https://www.lemoncelloireland.com/#/tour
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