Daniel O'Sullivan - Releases new album 'Folly'

April 5th 2019

Release

We can't wait for 'Folly' and his UK shows!!! this is a record you must own.

Daniel O'Sullivan has announced details of his new solo album 'Folly', which is out on O Genesis Recordings on the 5th of April 2019 He has already previewed the first two tracks off the record ‘Silhouette’:and 'Under the Knife', the first you can listen to at the bottom of this page... and the second you can see the music video for on YouTube.

'Folly' is Daniel O’Sullivan’s second album under his own name and embodies a confident, evolution from his acclaimed debut 'Veld' which was released in 2017 by O Genesis, an album which distilled the multiverse into a rich and complex soundworld; textured and allusive, alive with sonic diversions, hypnotic mantras and ornately arranged songcraft. The release will coincide with a two night residency for 'The New arts and music Programme' at Sutton House, Hackney. Set in the arts and crafts era wing of this Tudor manor house, using its early 20th century Steinway grand piano.

On Friday the 5th of April Daniel O’Sullivan will be performing songs from 'Folly' with his ensemble, with special guests from the O Genesis family, Richard Youngs and The Silver Field supporting. On Saturday the 6th of April, the evening will include a solo performance from Thighpaulsandra, who recorded and mixed the album... while Daniel performs songs with guest appearances by Peter Broderick and Thighpaulsandra among others.

'Folly' was written around the birth of his son Ari and the passing of his friend Ian Johnstone, and both events were significant in the album that followed. Daniel O’Sullivan explains “Joy is inseparable from suffering and sometimes those polarities arrive at the same moment. Music offers a vessel to contain the unspeakable.” This cycle of twelve songs deftly illustrates Daniel O'Sullivan's ascent as a unique and multidimensional songwriter.

Moving from the familiar pantheon of experimental music and arriving upon a universal narrative probing the human condition from the inside out. Both lyrically and within the intricate lattice of arrangements, traditional forms are reshaped into transcendent pop symphonies. Both intimate and alien, archetypal and atypical, joyous and melancholic, the aperture of 'Folly' is wide open and light streams in. 'Folly' was recorded and mixed by Thighpaulsandra (Coil, Julian Cope Band, Spiritualized) at his Aeriel studio premises in Wales and mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy.

“Writing songs alone can take some time even if a song arrives fully formed in your mind. The execution of it involves long durations with each individual part of the arrangement until it reaches something concise. The song tells you what it needs and I try not to force ideas onto it.” and goes on to say, “These songs are outside in rather than inside out, there was always a latency between the birth of the song and my understanding of its purpose. 'Folly' is looking at who is doing the shaping, most of these songs are about writing songs. There's a folly of a medieval abbey in these gardens that surround where I live. My family and I spend a lot of time roaming around there, amongst the frogs, foxes, mushrooms, owls, and the many strange "introduced" plants and trees. It was landscaped to be a rabbit hole sort of place.” - Daniel O' Sullivan

Daniel O’Sullivan is a composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living and working in London and has been contributing a vibrant, chameleonic brew to the music landscape since the late 1990's. He has achieved international acclaim writing, recording and performing with Grumbling Fur (with longtime friend and collaborator Alexander Tucker, Ulver, Sunn o))), Guapo, Miracle, Æthenor and the recent reincarnation of This Heat in the form of This is not this Heat.

'Folly' tracklisting Below:

The Air St Evignne

Under rhe Knife

Time elapsing Blue

Rattleman

Honour Wave

Air Tunes

The Diamond Vehicle

Penny Rag

Silhouette

Utopiary

Amnion