Returning Weather, by Christine Tobin

Returning Weather

by Christine Tobin

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All composition and words by Christine Tobin (except 'Still, Life) words by Eva Salzman, music by Christine Tobin.
Christine Tobin voice
Cora Venus Lunny violin & viola
David Power uilleann pipes & whistles
Phil Robson guitars & electronics
Steve Hamiliton piano

www.christinetobin.org

© 2023 Trail Belle Records TBR05
℗ 2023 Trail Belle Records TBR05

The songs of Returning Weather are inspired by my return to Ireland after many years living abroad. I hadn’t planned, nor had I any idea that I was coming home. It was as if a great wave rolled over me and swept me along, delivering me from city to sanctuary somewhere between Boyle, Frenchpark and Ballaghaderreen. I immediately fell under the spell of the quiet beauty of this part of Co. Roscommon, the boglands and the lakes, and was struck by the warmth of the people and how welcome they made me feel. These songs chart a journey of return, the strange romance of reconnecting with a cultural background, reshaping a sense of identity and belonging, and speak of how home and dwelling are central to our sense of self. Since coming to this landscape I feel that life is a jigsaw puzzle and I’m finally starting to fit the pieces into place. I’m hovering over the map of it all now and it’s a good feeling. There are many songs of farewell, this is the music of homecoming and return.
She was commissioned to write this evocative new song cycle by The Dock Arts Centre, with an Arts Council, Music Commissions Award.
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releases March 3, 2023

Recorded at Grouse Lodge Residential Recording Studios, Rosemount, Moate,
Co. Westmeath, Ireland on 22nd August 2022 Recording engineer Alex Borwick
Mixing engineer Phil Robson at Redwood Cottage January 2023
Mastering engineer Alex Bonney.
Producer Phil Robson
Executive producers Christine Tobin & Les Curtis
Artwork & Design by Brian Eley
Cover photo by Christine Tobin
Photo of Christine Tobin by Phil Robson
Phil Robson plays Case Guitars
For more info on Christine Tobin’s back catalogue see:
www.christine-tobin.com & babellable.co.uk
copyright Christine Tobin PRS/MCPS
The full album will be released digitally on 03/03/2023
The single 'Callow' will be available digitally from 17th Feb, 2023.
CDs will be available soon, watch this space!
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1.	Loch Glinne (part 1) 02:04	info	buy track
2.	Gennie's Welcome 06:36	info	buy track
3.	Callow 05:56	info	buy track
4.	Mullach na Sí 03:58		buy track
5.	Still, Life 11:58	info	buy track
6.	Loch Glinne (part 2) 03:12	info	buy track
7.	Hare & Crow 02:29	info	buy track
8.	Sedges and Heather 05:58	info	buy track
9.	July 06:45		buy track

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"The results are starkly beautiful, veering from abstraction to romanticism to folky minimalism, and Tobin’s voice, filled with humanity and warmth, draws it all together perfectly."
Irish Times **** review of Returning Weather 24/02/2023

All composition and words by Christine Tobin (except 'Still, Life) words by Eva Salzman, music by Christine Tobin.
Christine Tobin voice
Cora Venus Lunny violin & viola
David Power uilleann pipes & whistles
Phil Robson guitars & electronics
Steve Hamiliton piano

www.christinetobin.org

© 2023 Trail Belle Records TBR05
℗ 2023 Trail Belle Records TBR05

The songs of Returning Weather are inspired by my return to Ireland after many years living abroad. I hadn’t planned, nor had I any idea that I was coming home. It was as if a great wave rolled over me and swept me along, delivering me from city to sanctuary somewhere between Boyle, Frenchpark and Ballaghaderreen. I immediately fell under the spell of the quiet beauty of this part of Co. Roscommon, the boglands and the lakes, and was struck by the warmth of the people and how welcome they made me feel. These songs chart a journey of return, the strange romance of reconnecting with a cultural background, reshaping a sense of identity and belonging, and speak of how home and dwelling are central to our sense of self. Since coming to this landscape I feel that life is a jigsaw puzzle and I’m finally starting to fit the pieces into place. I’m hovering over the map of it all now and it’s a good feeling. There are many songs of farewell, this is the music of homecoming and return.
She was commissioned to write this evocative new song cycle by The Dock Arts Centre, with an Arts Council, Music Commissions Award.

credits

released March 3, 2023

Recorded at Grouse Lodge Residential Recording Studios, Rosemount, Moate,
Co. Westmeath, Ireland on 22nd August 2022 Recording engineer Alex Borwick
Mixing engineer Phil Robson at Redwood Cottage January 2023
Mastering engineer Alex Bonney.
Producer Phil Robson
Executive producers Christine Tobin & Les Curtis
Artwork & Design by Brian Eley
Cover photo by Christine Tobin
Photo of Christine Tobin by Phil Robson
Phil Robson plays Case Guitars
For more info on Christine Tobin’s back catalogue see:
www.christine-tobin.com & babellable.co.uk
copyright Christine Tobin PRS/MCPS
The full album will be released digitally on 03/03/2023
The single 'Callow' was released on 17th Feb, 2023 and is available now.
CDs will also be available from March 3rd, watch this space!

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Christine Tobin

Irish born vocalist/composer Tobin is renowned for her unique rich voice & original compositional style. She has twelve highly acclaimed albums under her own name & four major awards under her belt. She can be junkyard blues philosopher, or snappy beat seductress, a conduit for exquisite zen-like harmonies, or reflective Americana. The Guardian described her sound as 'Tobin’s 24 carat voice’. ... more

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