Intricate guitar work and vocals layer this luminous new album from Victoria Adiiye and Dáithí Sproule. Featuring original compositions and timeless lyrics, Adiiye and Sproule explore the sounds and textures of instrumentals and songs.  It’s magical music, sprung from a shared love of beautiful melodies and innovative arrangements.

This album is, above everything, a record of a friendship. A collection that grew from years of playing together — the recent ones from across an ocean. It is music about movement: about rivers and journeys, about love and leaving, about the places that stay with you long after you’ve gone. It’s a theme that was never far from our minds even when we lived in the same place — and one that feels more alive than ever now that we don’t. Derry and Donegal, Uganda and Massachusetts, Minnesota and Cork — the tunes and songs here live in the spaces between all of those places, and in the friendships that made the distances worth crossing.

-Victoria Adiiye & Dáithí Sproule

Track Listing:

1. Taylors Falls (Sproule/Sutter) 5:15
2. Peace in the Storm (Sproule) 2:49
3. The Island of Woods (Carroll/Foy) 4:38
4. Patty's Tune #1 (Sproule) 3:08
5. The Beaver Brig (Trad.) 5:04
6. An Teach Bán (Sproule) 3:55
7. The Queen of Hearts I (Trad.) 3:21
8. The Queen of Hearts II (Sproule) 3:52
9. There but for Fortune (Ochs) 3:56
10. The Overland Trail (Sproule/Foy) 6:42

Credits:

Produced by Macdara Ó Faoláin & Conor O'Sullivan
All tracks arranged by Victoria Adiiye & Dáithí Sproule
Artwork & Design by Victoria Adiiye
Photography by Lisa Richardson (unless otherwise specified)
Sleeve notes by Dáithí Sproule

Recorded by:

John Wright at The Villa, Savage, Minnesota
Martin O'Malley at Malbay Studios, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare
Steve Kaul at Wild Sound, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conor O'Sullivan at Hidden Studios, Blarney, Co. Cork