The Breath

The Breath is Manchester-based guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. They met on the city’s gig circuit in the late noughties. An unlikely pairing though it was, he an acclaimed guitar whiz, ex long-time member of The Cinematic Orchestra and a softly spoken Manchester urbanite, she a folk singer with a larger-than-life personality and a powerful voice to match. Their connection was immediate; they formed The Breath in 2016, a singer-songwriter duo to present their contemporary take on alt-folk.

For them, it’s all about the song. Connolly is a storyteller and their exquisitely crafted, honest, personal, heartfelt songs are as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post- colonial injustices and grief. But it’s Ríoghnach’s impassioned delivery and extraordinary stop-you-in- your-tracks voice, coupled with Stuart’s understated brilliance that is so engaging.

“Quietly, inexorably, The Breath have become one of the … most exciting folk acts… Only

Stories… an acoustic recording that unfolds like a paper flower” The Financial Times ★★★★★ “raw, soulful, often mesmeric, richly textured and lushly constructed…versatile persuasive vocals” Mojo

Is iad The Breath ná an giotáraí Stuart McCallum atá lonnaithe i Manchain agus an t-amhránaí/flúiteadóir Ríoghnach Connolly. Tháinig siad le chéile i dtreo deireadh na 2000í agus iad ag seinm timpeall na cathrach. Bíodh is gur chiotach an chleamhnais é” – eisean, ina whiz ar an ngiotár, ina bhall de The Cinematic Orchestra le fada an lá agus ina uirbeach bog-labhartha, – ise, ina hamhránaí ceol tíre le pearsantacht chroíúil agus glór cumhachtach,  réitíodar ar an bpointe boise. Bhunaigh siad The Breath in 2016, duo amhránaí is scríbhneoir chun a léargas comhaimseartha ar alt-folk a chur i láthair.

Dar leis mbeirt seo, is é an t-amhrán féin an rud is tábhachtaí ar fad. Is scéalaí í Connolly agus déileálann a gcuid amhrán fíor-cheardaithe, macánta, pearsanta, croíúil le scéalta faoi shamhraidh na hóige agus an chéad ghrá go dtí an díláithriú cultúrtha, éagóirí an iarchoilíneachais agus an brón. Ach is é seachadadh paiseanta Ríoghnach agus a guth mealltach, mar aon le héirim agus teicnic Stuart atá chomh tarraingteach.

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Thursday, 14 November 2024
Doors 7.30pm