underground by the mighty avon jnr
" I came across the work of Emer Martin in a copy of Stinging Fly magazine that a friend left in my flat on a winter evening in 2011.
Leafing through the contents I was struck by the title “going underground” in the novel extracts section as I had previously made a film about the Dublin punk rock scene of the 90s called “The Stars Are Underground”.
Reading the character’s monologue in my kitchen I realised I was speaking it out loud, caught up in the rhythm. The words felt like an anger cheat-sheet and a dark history lesson and I immediately decided to put it to music ”.
Daragh McCarthy 2015
Tracklist
| 1. | underground | 12:02 |
Credits
Performed by: The Mighty Avon Jnr
Voice and instrumentation: Daragh McCarthy
Drums: Peter Maybury
Guitar: Liam Mulvaney
Viola: Clara Grimes
Solo Female Voice: Sadhbh Ni Floinn
Shape Note Voices: Cork Sacred Harp
Sadhbh Ni Floinn,
Robert Wedgbury & Lisa O’Grady
Shape Note written by: Sadhbh Ni Floinn
Mixed and Mastered by: Liam Mulvaney at Bow Lane Studios Dublin
Produced by Daragh McCarthy
Words: Emer Martin*
Music: Daragh McCarthy
License
All rights reserved.
Irish Filmmaker (The Stars Are Underground, The Master Musicians of Joujouka, The Ex & Brass Unbound, videos for Vijay iyer, The Frames) and musician (80s delinquents The Babysnakes and Dublin punk legends Paranoid Visions) Daragh McCarthy has created a one-man band with a hundred members:
Alternative.
Music from Ireland.