While visiting my uncle in Ireland a few months ago, we walked up to the Cloughmore Stone (pictured above), a huge granite boulder perched on a mountainside almost 1,000 feet above the village of Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Local legend has it that the stone was thrown from the Cooley Mountains on the other side of Carlingford Lough (lake) by Fionn mac Cumhaill, a legendary warrior and poet from Irish mythology, in a rage against an enemy across the water.
It struck me how something so seemingly unremarkable could have such a beautiful association with mythology. The music in this show is inspired entirely by the photograph I took of the stone above and its lore: beginning firmly grounded in reality, before gradually slipping into the surreal. Featuring original music from myself and @tomlorcan as well as Irish and Iceland folk, a danish choir I found on TikTok and some Japanese cantareel music (made using a wheeled attachment for the guitar that creates a sustained, dro
