Carousel, Beoga’s new mini album, is a major triumph for the trad band, following its release on Friday last.
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The title‘Carousel was chosen to reflect Beoga’s experiences over the past two years. They’ve navigated the murky waters of the music industry, signing and then escaping two recording contracts before teaming up with AWAL. It’s been a long and frustrating experience, but looking back they realise that they’ve been more creative than ever before. In addition to Carousel they also have the bones of a further two or three albums in place. Everything is set up for Beoga to reach a whole new audience.
With an adventurous spirit and a passion for charting the road less travelled, Beoga have shown that Irish traditional music can take fresh new directions. That world-facing potential was proven by the popularity of their collaborations with Ed Sheeran on his all-conquering ‘÷’ album. Those two songs – Galway Girl and Nancy Mulligan – have been streamed over a billion times on Spotify alone.
The mini album finds the band focusing on creating attention-grabbing hooks with a mix of rootsy instrumentation and elements of electronic pop production. It follows the recent single In A Rocket, a collaboration with Lissie.
Other featured vocalists on the mini-album include Beoga’s old friends Foy Vance and Niall McCabe.
Meanwhile the Grammy-nominated producer Jonny Coffer has helped the band’s fresh fusion of sounds to flourish.
Beoga will follow the release of Carousel with an Irish and UK headline tour later this year.
