2022 - the year of the dan: chapter 26

Chapter 26

Trick Mist was my next October appointment and Tombstome’s second outing of the year. This being Gavin Murray of these parts.

Time was when a singer songwriter would appear with a guitar, voice and some carefully calculated backstories. Trick Mist had guitar (electric) but also a control pad, drum pads, keys and a banjo, making a particularly intriguing sound field. The new album The hedge maze and the spade showcases plenty of these.

Standout from the gig might be the beautiful Boring bread which features what could be a sample of a bread slicer with assorted other looped ornamentation and Murray’s handsome heartfelt croon topping it off.

The album (according to bandcamp) focuses on Murray’s close relationship to his recently deceased grandmother and lyrics have the intimate feel of diary snapshots. Well worth checking.

Support in Coughlans was by Howlbux. The duo of Elaine Howley and Irene Buckley. The two women sat at a table, somewhat like lab technicians (Radiophonic Workshop?), and set loose an array of ethereal samples and sublime ambient drift. I don’t want to give the wrong impression though. This was not dry and scientific. It was warm and soulful kosmische music finished with Elaine’s haunting vocal. A soundtrack to an imaginary film I would also pay money to see.



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