NL premiere

A founding member of experimental folk group Lankum, Ian Lynch brings his immense project One Leg One Eye to Rewire. Careening with abounding, black metal noise and abyssal, squalid drones, it is truly contemporary yet entrenched too in a traditional air that conjures the rueful spirits of Irish history and myth. The uileann pipes are Lynch’s instrument of choice to build these buttressing pillars of drone – a traditional Irish instrument whose wails and bellows have always held within them the bittersweet quality of a well-inebriated wake. Blending this time-worn instrument with harrowing vocals, post-processing effects, and raw field recordings, One Leg One Eye’s critically acclaimed debut album .​.​.And Take The Black Worm With Me (2022) pelts a frosty, fallow gale across the often verdant soundscape of Irish traditional music. Lynch says of the album that it was inspired in part by abandoned locations in his hometown of Dublin, one in particular being an empty factory where his father had worked when he was a child. The album’s centrepiece, “I'd Rather Be Tending My Sheep,” grew out of sessions Lynch spent in this abandoned space, singing into the void. The music of One Leg One Eye is the sound of the void answering back; be careful lest it swallow you whole.

*This is a seated concert