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Uaigneas

About Me

Uaigneas began life in the hills of Deasmhumhan in and about 1996 drawing its musical influences from the traditional music of the area mixing them with Doom Death Metal and poetry based on the area's natural surroundings, history and poetic styles common to the old Gaelic order thus creating Gaelic Doom Metal or Ceol Breatha Gaedhealach.

In January 1998 Uaigneas was put on hold as Mael Mórdha was born. The ideas for Uaigneas, however, kept coming and have resulted in numerous works of poetry and pieces of music (all unpublished/unreleased at present).

Attempts to put order to these offerings have been ongoing for the last two years including some preliminary recordings with Frederiek Laumans which have taken some of the songs and turned them into a classical/darkwave collection.

Currently Uaigneas is recording a song for its first release. The cd single will be limited to 250 copies and will be released by Deasmhumhan Records sometime in 2009

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/08/2006
Band Website: www.uaigneas.com
Band Members: Roibéard Ó Bogail.
Collaborations to Date: Frederiek Laumans - Arranger/Composer
Influences: Seamus Ennis, The Chieftains, Seán Ó Riada, Clannad, Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, Aogán Ó Rathaille.
Sounds Like: Misery and Mourning. A Map to that place inside your soul that you do not want to go, feel at peace when you get there yet while there you begin to slowly distroy your physical self.
Record Label: Deasmhumhan Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Dusking of a New Day

Clocking in at 10 minutes 24 seconds it is yet another little ditty by Uaigneas. So far the Drums, Bass, Pianos, Cellos, Electric Pianos, Low Whistle, Cláirseach and Vocals have been recorded. Some m...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:12:00 GMT

An Cailleach ’gus an Bard Bocht

The latest offering from Uaigneas, 'An Cailleach 'gus an Bard Bocht', is now available for listening on the Uaigneas MySpace site. The song has two sections, the 1st is from Buí the Goddess of B...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:05:00 GMT

An Raibh Tú ar an gCarraig

I have just uploaded 'An Raibh Tú ar an gCarraig'. This is an old Irish tune thought to have been native to East Mumhan. The instruments which can be heard are: Vocals, Bodhrán, Cretian Lyra, Piano, ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:08:00 GMT

Website Update. Tune Update

I have just added some information on a few of the instruments being used by Uaigneas on the Uaigneas website. as well as a picture of the Cláirseach in the pictures section of MySpace. The instrument...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:36:00 GMT

New Tune

Have just put up a new tune. It is an instrumental and includes many of the instruments that are typical of those used in Uaigneas tunes. On this recording the instruments used include the Clairs...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:29:00 GMT

Mo Chláirseach

Travelled all the way to Ennis yesterday to meet with cláirseoir and cláirseach maker, Paul Dooley. He brought with him two 24 string cláirsigh as well as his own much larger one. I was treated to an ...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 02:04:00 GMT

Website update

The first historical part of the website is now up. It is titled "The Death of Gaelic Culture 1601-1801" and covers a very brief outline on Irish history and how it effected the Irish Gael. If anyone ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 May 2007 18:14:00 GMT

Cláirseach

Will be visiting Cláirseoir (Gaelic Harpist) Paul Dooley at the end of this month with the view to buying one of his cláirseachs (Brass strung Gaelic Harp) which I am very excited about seeing they ar...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:09:00 GMT

Defining Gaelic Doom Metal/ Recording Studios

I have just put the basic musical definition of Gaelic Doom Metal up on the website. I am also checking out the recording studio that I am hoping to record the next Uaigneas E.P. in. The studio is in...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:37:00 GMT

Uaigneas New(ish) Music

Have just put up some of those classical/darkwave bits that I worked on last year with Frederiek Laumans. Please bear in mind that they are rough demos and are works in progress.The version of the son...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:02:00 GMT