ONE LEG ONE EYE is the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Irish group Lankum) that explores submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while also being deeply embued with a sense of Irish history and myth.
Debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me (released on Nyahh Records in 2022) is a slow burning suite of five expansive songscapes that has found its audience largely by word of mouth. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child, Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by vast pillars of uileann pipe drones, overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure up a sound that is at once dark, mysterious and ultimately transcendental.
“The mood often feels immersive and monumental, but there is powerful intimacy, too.” – The Guardian
https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-take-the-black-worm-with-me
DAWN TERRY plays slow, melancholic, optimistic music for sad people. Based in Newcastle, she is a veteran drone artist, producing work that is heavy, dreamlike, open and hypnotic. Working for years as one third of drone band Bong, Dawn supplied heavy distorted bass and vocals. Bong are renowned for reaching beyond their metal roots towards a sound that incorporates the psychedelic and cosmic.
In her more recent solo work Dawn has turned towards acoustic resonances provided by accordion, hurdy-gurdy, and voice. Both cleaner and denser than ever before, Dawn is now producing large scale minimalist landscapes characterised by an austere openness, barely punctured by hypnotic drumming or slowly intoned vocals.