He performs during next weekend’s Battle For The Lake Watersport and Music Festival on Achill Island.
There’s a new single out tomorrow from Galway music producer and musician Daithi, with his second album slated for an October release.
As Daithi explains of the new single – “Perfect Harmony is a track built around the fear of losing someone, and eventual acceptance that someday it will happen. Orla Gartland, the vocalist on the track, based her lyrics on the fear of losing her grandfather.
“The lyrics are some of my favourite I’ve ever had on my tracks, especially the line ‘Thicker than water, you’ll leave all your sons and your daughters, but you’ll live in the stories you tell, and I’ll pass it down to everyone else.’ “
“Perfect Harmony was mainly recorded in rural France along with the rest of the album (L.O.S.S.). And you can actually hear the bird song from outside my window at the start of the track“.
L.O.S.S. will be released on 18th October and will be available digitally and on vinyl.
This is Daithi’s second album, which follows on from a few years of releasing singles and EPs and more recently, the singles Take The Wheel, Orange, Submarines and Nobody New Around You.
The ten tracks will include contributions from Sinead White, Paul Noonan, Ailbhe Reddy, Orla Gartland, Tandem Felix, Sacred Animals, Ryan Vail & The Sei.
Daithi has performed at some big festival slots this summer including All Together Now, Forbidden Fruit, Pride, and the Galway Arts Festival.
The two-time Choice Music Prize nominee builds on a signature unique formation of house music with a series of singles that mark the most ambitious and personal adventure to date.
“I was at my lowest point, feeling like nothing would ever be okay again, and found myself writing all sorts of melodies and chords as a form of therapy, but at first couldn’t imagine getting to a place where I felt comfortable making songs out of them,” said Daithi.
“This project scared me, but I’m also more proud of it than anything I’ve ever done.”
As well as Achill on Friday 27th September, Daithi has gigs coming up in Limerick and Cork next week and the album launch in The Button Factory, Dublin on 19th October.
