OTHER ISSUES MMVV: 2017

MATTHEW MCDAID

MATTHEW McDAID is a young singer-songwriter of Irish origin transplanted and well-rooted in the Collsacabra. His first album, Off the Beaten Track, is published this autumn with the record label of Joana Serrat, Great Canyon Records. The work is a collection of stories connecting with the tradition of the old folk composers but looking towards an imaginative interior with traces of psychedelia. From his redoubt of silence and contemplation in Rupit, he reels off pure emotions, with intimate subtlety or with an explosive force, and from the stillness and contact with nature he susses out precious, universal and moving tunes.