Our third album of threes, trios, triptychs. All things full, potential, brimming, boiling over. Sets and medleys, small fragments, writing new verses, layering spaces and recording techniques. A woven approach. Making space for narrative without defining it too concretely. Making space for the dead, those who have played this music for generations, for our own practice, techniques and collective improvisations. Threaded together by bells, birds, death, the chase, prison abolition, field recording, tape manipulation, playing live together, clattering strings, clarinet harmonies, utopian imaginaries. All things hold all things. ’Who shall carry all things on their backs?’

Tracklist

Jer the Rigger

The Foxhunter’s Reel

Tally Ho! Hark Away!

Ní ar Chnoc ná ar Ísleacht (“Mists are the best times for sowing”)

Jowl, Jowl and Listen Lads

On Rye Marshes (A Crow Replied to Bells)

Who Killed Cock Robin? A Summoning (Kind Morning in our Fists)

Who Killed Cock Robin? / Gilbert’s Jig

Bold Captain Avery

The Worms Crept Out (A Leuven Carillon)

A Hundred Stretches Hence / I Wish There Was No Prisons

Personnel

Alex Mckenzie: Bass Clarinet, Low Whistle, High Whistle, Voice, Cassette Tape

Daniel S. Evans: Steel String Guitar, Nylon String Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Cello, Bells, Voice, Field Recording, Cassette Tape

Fidelma Hanrahan: Harp, Voice

Jacken Elswyth: Steel String Banjo, Nylon String Banjo, Shruti Box, Bells, Voice, Field Recording

Joshua Barfoot: Bodhrán, Drum Kit, Hammered Dulcimer, Percussion, Bells, Voice

Mataio Austin Dean: Voice, Steel String Guitar, Electric Guitar, Clarinet, Bells, Field Recording

Nick Granata: Voice, Pump Organ, Bells 

Oliver Hamilton: Fiddle(s), Voice

Tom Hardwick-Allan: Trombone, Bass Harmonica, Harmonica, Voice

Produced by Mike O’Malley and Daniel S. Evans

Engineered by Mike O’Malley, Mike Collins at Big Jelly Studios, Joe Osborne at The Crypt Studios, and Andy Ramsay at Press Play Studios

Mixed by Sam Grant

Mastered by Matt Colton

Cover Artwork by Daniel S. Evans and Mataio Austin Dean

Record Design by Adélaïde de Alfaro

Photography by Brad Gilbert and Daniel S. Evans, Photoetching by Mataio Austin Dean

Flugelhorn and Trumpet on Bold Captain Avery by Fred Wordsworth

Additional vocals on Jowl, Jowl and Listen Lads by Gwena Harman and Bridget Walker

Carillon on The Worms Crept Out (A Leuven Carillon) by Luc Rombouts

Brass Arrangement on Bold Captain Avery by Oliver Hamilton

Live recording on Who Killed Cock Robin? A Summoning (Kind Morning in our Fists) from Donaufestival

The poem, Who Killed Cock Robin? (A Summoning) by Mataio Austin Dean

In incubation there is a powerful intending, it aims at what is sought, what is dawning, on the advance. Mists are the best times for sowing... 

Ernst Bloch (The Principle of Hope, vol 1)

I sit quietly with my alarm clock, close my eyes and open my ears. At this point the curtain rises and the performance begins. My very surroundings seem to come alive, each sound revealing the personality of its creator.

Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening)

A magnificent life is waiting just around the corner, and far, far away. It is waiting like the cake is waiting when there's butter, milk, flour and sugar. This is the realm of freedom.

Henri Lefebvre (Notes on the New Town)

get up, put on your shoes, get

started, someone will finish

Diane di Prima (Revolutionary Letter #2) 

The night is far gone; the day is near.

Romans 13:12

tak:til, 2026