Description

Folly is OrsquoSullivanrsquos second album under his own name and embodies a confident, evolution from his acclaimed debut VELD 2017, O Genesis, an album which distilled the multiverse into a rich and complex soundworld textured and allusive, alive with sonic diversions, hypnotic mantras and ornately arranged songcraft.The release will coincide with a twonight residency for The New Arts amp Music Programme at Sutton House, Hackney. Set in the Arts amp Crafts era wing of this Tudor manor house, using its early 20th Century Steinway grand piano, Friday 5 April will see OrsquoSullivan performing songs from Folly with his ensemble, with special guests from the O Genesis family, Richard Youngs and The Silver Field, supporting. Saturday 6 April will include a solo performance from Thighpaulsandra, who recorded and mixed the album while Daniel performs songs with guest appearances by Peter Broderick and Thighpaulsandra among others.Folly was written around the birth of his son Ari and the passing of his friend Ian Johnstone, and both events were significant in the album that followed. OrsquoSullivan explains, ldquoJoy is inseparable from suffering and sometimes those polarities arrive at the same moment. Music offers a vessel to contain the unspeakable.rdquoThis cycle of twelve songs deftly illustrates OSullivans ascent as a unique and multidimensional songwriter. Moving from the familiar pantheon of experimental music and arriving upon a universal narrative probing the human condition from the inside out. Both lyrically and within the intricate lattice of arrangements, traditional forms are reshaped into transcendent pop symphonies. Both intimate and alien, archetypal and atypical, joyous and melancholic, the aperture of Folly is wide open and light streams in. Daniel O’Sullivan LP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £18