View basket “Dove Across The Water” has been added to your basket. Cala Fionn Regan SKU: ABBEYLP191 Barcode: 193483897998 15.00 £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Abbey Records Released Date: 9th August 2019 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Fionn Regan’s new album Cala starts as it means to continue: “Wear this crown of light for you on this August moon.” The opening line of Cala’s opening song, ‘Collar Of Fur’, combines elemental and romantic imagery with an equally luminescent melody and subtly keening vocal set like jewels in delicately fingerpicked acoustic guitar and “atmospherics,” as Regan hears it: “Sparse cinematic moments, like a super-eight movie.” The scene is set for a spine-tingling spell of a record, named after the Spanish word for ‘cove’, bathed in the balmy rays of summer and the iridescent light of that August moon. Ten songs and 35 minutes long, Cala is a concise statement but with deep pockets to tumble into, drawn by Regan’s drowsy beauty and nuanced narratives. It’s been this way with Regan, give or take the odd detour into busier/band territory, since his 2006 album debut The End Of History. As it happens, Regan hears a link in Cala’s tone and setting to that first record. Both albums were written at Regan’s home in Bray, on Dublin’s coastal outskirts, which might partly explain Cala’s recurring imagery: stars, moon, ocean, sun… “The album does have fundamentally elemental, visual components,” he agrees. “I wouldn’t mind knowing why! It’s a mystery to me, how songs evolve. Thankfully, they do. But I’ve never got anywhere when I’ve tried to work it out.” Yet, as Regan concedes, “the place you’re from continues to resonate.” The sound of Cala – also performed entirely by Regan – is similarly drawn from intuition, rooted in acoustic guitar and sometimes piano, and those atmospherics – “a kickdrum here, a footstamp there, some slight modern twists influenced by the time period we’re in. I’ve not overthought it much. I hope the songs can shine in that way. The song comes first, then the sonic palate, then the words give a sense of place, or landscape.” If there is a real place where these exquisitely haunting songs reside, it’s somewhere close to heaven: “The sand dunes and the stars, the moon is a tambourine / The perfume of her skin, cheekbones are diamonds set” (‘Riverside Heights’), “She wears a veil of stars / lightning is bottled in the city lights / they blur howling to the glaciers” (‘Glaciers’). The title track enigmatically details, “twenty miles of amber.” Cala’s last words come from ‘Under The Waves / Tokyo’, a simple and piercing couplet that underlines the record’s entwined elemental/romantic helix: “When you’re here tomorrow night / I’ll sing to you with my jaw of light.” Other images hint at Regan’s emotional swirls and eddies. ‘Head Swim’ describes a “Baudelaire Mojave ghost… foxtrot in your cha cha heels.” The outstanding title track refers to an Anglo-French legend (“Effortless like Birkin is / basket and her jeans cut high”). ‘The Ocean Wave’ mentions the Cronebane, an ancient Irish coin. The song title ‘Volca’ also sounds ancient, and even refers to the word (“Along the coast, the ancient stars hold sway”) but is prosaically named after the drum machine that ripples beneath, almost silently. ‘Brass Locket’ relocates to America, specifically Tennessee, the Hudson river, the Catskills and Manhattan’s upper west and lower east sides. “I started to write a couple of songs in New York…the setting is real, but they’re word games, the narrative is fiction, my imagination,” Regan explains. “It’s back to the idea of cinema.” Over the course of five sublime albums (Cala is his sixth), the man who has been nominated for Mercury, Choice, Meteor Ireland and Shortlist awards, sampled by Bon Iver, tattooed on actor Rhys Ifans’ arm (the lyric “Be good or be gone”), and made an honorary member of the Trinity College Literary Society knows that rewards and recognition don’t come close to what truly matters. “I’m just so lucky to play music,” Regan says. And we’re so lucky to have him. Artist Fionn Regan Genre Folk , Rock And Pop Label Abbey Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1. Collar of Fur 2. Head Swim 3. Riverside Heights 4. The Ocean Wave 5. Volca 6. Cala 7. Brass Locket 8. Hunting Dog 9. Glaciers 10. 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