ABOUT
Eileen Tackney's music is a complex and intricate landscape like no other. Her stridently unique sound is a journey between the earthly and otherworldly making 'Towards The Sun' an album that the listener feels could possibly be the soundtrack to life itself"
- Tony Clayton-Lea
- Tony Clayton-Lea
“A wonderful and intuitive bridge between old-school electronic music (Can, Cluster, Rick Wakeman) and latterday exponents of the genre (Ulrich Schnauss)”
Tony Clayton-Lea
'Heralding from the red-hot intersection of dance and world beat, 'Towards The Sun' is deftly garnished with expert production manoeuvres and instrumental riffs.'”
AKADEMIA MUSIC AWARDS
IRISH TIMES REVIEW
Eileen Tackney is an alternative ambient artist whose otherworldly, emotional and cinematic music traverses the world of electronica, traditional and classical to create a totally unique listening experience.
After the release of her debut album SOUTH music journalist Tony Clayton-Lea chose her as his "One To Watch" for 2013. Her follow up ‘Towards The Sun’ which she worked on with Martyn Barker (Shriekback/Robert Plant) and Jo Beth Young (Talitha Rise) in 2015 became an award winning album.
After a 5 year absence immersed in her daily music work in Cavan, Ireland (her home town), she returns with a deeply beautiful third album ‘The Return Home’ and sound that has deepened and matured with time, with a visceral emotion, born from the quietude of lockdown.
Eileen’s music is rooted in the origins of her musical family in the village of Maudbawn. Pursuing her traditional and classical interests as a child on piano and accordion and a vast array of musical education, performance accolades and scholarships (including the Dunleath Scholarship in Organ ) that led her to a BA (MUS) from NUI Maynooth.
Her whole life is dedicated to music in a myriad of ways. Previously the organist and then director of the Cathedral Choir in Cavan for 16 years she has arranged Albums for artists such as Deirdre Shannon of (Lord of The Dance), The Young Wolfe Tones and All-Ireland Trad singer Aoife Murray. She’s directed musicals for schools (West Side Story, The Hot Mikado), and when an original composition was required for the All-Ireland Fleadh 2010 in Cavan, Eileen was commissioned. Her ‘good ear’ and sensitivity to sound are legendary.
However, it is her work as a visionary contemporary composer that truly makes her stand apart and her unique ambient sound has left audiences and peers feeling transported in her live performances notably at Glastonbury (with Ben Tiernan) and The Electric Picnic.
Her music has been described as moving, cinematic, a soundscape or sonic journey but above all Eileen Tackney brings a refreshing, authentic and beautiful ambient world to life, filled with both whimsy and wisdom in equal measure, leaving the listener somewhat healed and altered after hearing her.
After the release of her debut album SOUTH music journalist Tony Clayton-Lea chose her as his "One To Watch" for 2013. Her follow up ‘Towards The Sun’ which she worked on with Martyn Barker (Shriekback/Robert Plant) and Jo Beth Young (Talitha Rise) in 2015 became an award winning album.
After a 5 year absence immersed in her daily music work in Cavan, Ireland (her home town), she returns with a deeply beautiful third album ‘The Return Home’ and sound that has deepened and matured with time, with a visceral emotion, born from the quietude of lockdown.
Eileen’s music is rooted in the origins of her musical family in the village of Maudbawn. Pursuing her traditional and classical interests as a child on piano and accordion and a vast array of musical education, performance accolades and scholarships (including the Dunleath Scholarship in Organ ) that led her to a BA (MUS) from NUI Maynooth.
Her whole life is dedicated to music in a myriad of ways. Previously the organist and then director of the Cathedral Choir in Cavan for 16 years she has arranged Albums for artists such as Deirdre Shannon of (Lord of The Dance), The Young Wolfe Tones and All-Ireland Trad singer Aoife Murray. She’s directed musicals for schools (West Side Story, The Hot Mikado), and when an original composition was required for the All-Ireland Fleadh 2010 in Cavan, Eileen was commissioned. Her ‘good ear’ and sensitivity to sound are legendary.
However, it is her work as a visionary contemporary composer that truly makes her stand apart and her unique ambient sound has left audiences and peers feeling transported in her live performances notably at Glastonbury (with Ben Tiernan) and The Electric Picnic.
Her music has been described as moving, cinematic, a soundscape or sonic journey but above all Eileen Tackney brings a refreshing, authentic and beautiful ambient world to life, filled with both whimsy and wisdom in equal measure, leaving the listener somewhat healed and altered after hearing her.
