Courgettes are deadly

October 25, 2015 1:22 AM

In June 2009, the filmmaker Myles O'Reilly nestled Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh in The Back Loft in Dublin, with a camera, a reel to reel recorder, a laptop, a fiddle, a five stringed viola and a hardanger, and what followed was a short series of five beautiful improvisations and a little bit of gardening banter
posted by salishsea (5 comments total)

A hard anger is helpful in completing any music documentary.
posted by fairmettle at 2:58 AM on October 25, 2015

Wow. The sounds he makes are just sublime. I loved them all, but the third with the looped finger-plucking and then 4 and 5 (I don't know why they were split into two, I was jolted out of a trance by the sudden ending of 4) with the building layers were just mesmerising. And he seems like such a lovely guy too (though I will take issue with the courgette love - they are the work of the Divil). And beautiful lighting and lovely low key but precise direction, too. My now blissed-out Sunday morning thanks you for posting this.
posted by billiebee at 3:37 AM on October 25, 2015

Beautiful, haunting music. I noticed the reel-to-reel isn't moving in the first installment. Is it there as an analog placebo? Is that now a thing?
posted by dylanjames at 8:00 AM on October 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

3 of 5 is like Violin Solo in the Quiet Rain. Very nice in the "living room" (not sound deadened) with echoes of the notes.
posted by Oyéah at 1:13 PM on October 25, 2015

This is lovely. Thank you so much. I've run off and bought a few tracks now.
posted by ladyriffraff at 11:55 PM on October 25, 2015