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 Sea Sew UK Release date
Acclaimed Irish singer Lisa Hannigan is set to release her debut album 'Sea Sew' in the UK through Hoop Recordings on 27 April 2009.
Hannigan’s first solo release since parting with Damien Rice’s band has already been nominated for both Best Irish Album at the Meteor Music Awards and the Choice Music Prize in Ireland. In the recent 2009 Hot Press Readers Poll, Hannigan also scooped the awards for Best Female, Best Debut Album, Best Irish Album and Best Irish Track.
Described by the New York Time as ‘exquisitely ethereal’, Hannigan’s chance meeting with singer-songwriter Damien Rice led to a long period of collaboration and development that included Rice’s critically acclaimed albums O and 9. From the outset, Hannigan quickly generated attention for her own vocal performances and spent the subsequent few years recording and touring the world with Rice, including the release of ‘Unplayed Piano’ as a single in support of the Free Aung San Suu Kyi 60th Birthday Campaign.
When this collaboration came to an end after seven years, Hannigan was left with a notebook of songs and the desire and confidence to put them onto a record. Gathering a talented band of friends together, including Tom Osander on drums, Shane Fitzsimons on double bass and Donagh Molloy on trumpet, they got to work.
Starting early in the morning, the band spent fourteen days down in the basement of Dublin’s Cauldron Studios, playing glockenspiels and harmoniums, violins and organs, trumpets and guitars, and sang until they were hoarse.
Hannigan mixed the album in London, while her mother Frances began knitting in preparation for the cover artwork. After spending a happy month stitching the lyrics onto rough cotton, and picking out the many references to the sea in the lyrics, Hannigan decided to call the album Sea Sew.
Hannigan made her solo UK debut at a sold-out St Johns Church, London in December 2008. thelondonpaper proclaimed, ‘A glorious London debut ahead of what promises to be one of the great solo debut albums of 2009’, whilst the Daily Telegraph wrote, ‘Stunning. Hannigan’s music leaves a lasting impression.’ The FT declared, ‘A beaming presence. Rice’s next work is a plainer prospect without her. His loss is our gain’ and The Times simply put, ‘Mesmerising’.
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3/10/2009, 12:32 am
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