Immram with Neil Ó Lochlainn

“a post-genre trailblazer” The Irish Times on Neil Ó Lochlainn

Immram is a suite of poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. In 2019 Neil Ó Lochlainn was commissioned by Paddy Bushe and the Amergin Solstice Poetry Gathering to set the poems to music.

The music combines influences from Irish traditional music and the sean-nós singing tradition, jazz/impro-vised music and contemporary classical music to create an innovative post-genre style of contemporary Irish chamber music.

The musicians are some of the most highly regarded young musicians in Ireland today.

‘Immram’ roughly translates as ‘Voyage’ and is a type of story found commonly in mythological Irish writing describing a protagonists journey by sea to the otherworld and the adventures that ensue during their voy-age. In this work Ó Lochlainn has created contemporary musical textures for a modern audience rooted in ancient forms, such as Irish song and dance, while combining these with more contemporary influences to create a musical world uninhibited by boundaries and genre.