Captain A is topical electro-psychedelic folk music carved out of the expansive boglands and beaches of donegal, on the north-left coast of Ireland. Originally a straight to tape solo project by Eoghan Holland (founder member of The Evangelists and Aurel), Captain A have released six studio albums;
most recently 2008’s “Yellowbackâ€
Beginning with the acoustic album about death ‘…dictionary muses…’ in 2005, Captain A continued through a fast run of releases, following up again later in 2005 with ‘the last days of the eclectic para’ EP, a more electronic and experimental collaboration with Lorna McLaughlin (Inishowen Gospel Choir), with additional vocals from Gemma Heaney and Jacqui Sterling. In Early 2006 after spending 8 weeks in a Minneapolis basement with Mike Bernard (Take Out Rock, The Mulitplexors) Captain A released the results of this jam session as “The Mell of Amoricaâ€, a two piece double album of jesus and mary chain styled rock and woody guthrie acoustics. Re-establishing back in Donegal in early 2006, summer brought the glasspaper and fisticuff’s sound of “Summer of Tourettesâ€. Like most albums released in the past thirty years, Summer of tourette’s is a bad reaction to bad television, full of contemporary influence and styled as a homage to the transient. After recording four full length albums in just over a year Captain A decided to cut Captain A some slack, and decided to concentrate on not releasing music for a while to see what would happen. Enlisting Joleen Mclaughlin (Inisheoghan Gospel Choir) and Rohan Armstrong (Montana Floss) the “Captain A band†began to play together during winter 2006 which became the early sessions for Guerrilla Love Songs. Guerralla Love songs became a long term project, eventually roping 11 collaborators into the studio in various ways, the album fell together in mid 2007 as an hour long conceptual epic, combining Eoghans Cohenesque delivery and Lorna’s sweeping harmonies with a wardrobe full of thrift store instruments, and thrift store musicians. As Guerilla Love Songs has been spreading around on the local file-sharing scene it has found its way into both soundtracks and art galleries. After GLS the Captain A ‘band’ of Eoghan (guitar), Joleen (harp) and Rohan (double bass) recorded a project described as ‘Yellowback’, released in March 2008, blending oriental ideas with celtic folk, and a bit of psychadelics,
