Multi-instrumentalist draws inspiration from west coast

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Seamus O’Muineachain is a minimalist multi-instrumentalist, composer and  producer with a penchant for a sense of place in his work.   Through five albums, he has approached ambient, instrumental soundscapes with piano melodies, gentle guitar, percussion and field recordings – using his music to reflect the calm and space of the areas that inspire it.

Seamus’ latest project is an ode to the Mullet Peninsula in the barony of Erris, Co. Mayo, which lies next to his home in Belmullet. Isthmus is set for release on October 1.

The songwriter was born in the US to an Italian mother and an Irish father, and his travels since his late teens have taken him across the globe. Still, something about home still seeps into his work at every corner.

For this record, it was a peninsula that, for Seamus, acts as a viewing platform for a sizable portion of the western landscape.

“It’s really rugged,” he says of the place.

“It feels like its own kind of world down here – it isn’t actually an island but it’s as close as you can get to one. Once you drive past the Ballycroy National Park, you’re out in the twilight zone where it’s rugged and back in time a little bit, but there’s something really beautiful and peaceful about it.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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