CAL FOLGER DAY (Baltimore / Dublin) Piece-dye (June 3) is an avant-pop journey through the lens of the documentarian's attention to detail. Lyrically, everything you hear are verbatim quotes from an interview conducted with Irene Nally - a distant aunt and Irish immigrant. The interviews chronicle her experience arriving in New York City in the post-war boom and explores the unique set of intricacies, contradictions and ground-level observations of navigating the rapidly changing cultural climate of New York City labor. Musically omnivorous, each "Act" moves from bombastic to reverent, centering the narrative thrust of Irene's recollections (paying special attention to each nuance of speech) while Day's elastic and multidisciplinary musical directions spread out from the center.

"...an ambitious journey, traversing from psych and chamber-pop to conversational folk" Obscure Sound "A guitarist and chanteuse with jazz leanings, whose vocal control and stage presence command attention" The New Yorker “wonky and wondrous pop... Cal Folger Day has steadily established herself as one of the more idiosyncratic and consistently nonpareil musicians in Ireland over the last few years” The Thin Air

THE BONK (Dublin) The Bonk is an experimental music project led by Phil Christie. Gathering influences from 60’s garage, jazz and experimental pop, the band's arrangements bring recursive rhythms and improvised melodies together in loose minimalist song forms.

Their first record, The Bonk Seems To Be A Verb, released through boutique imprint thirtythree-45, is a collection of one-off live studio takes patched together from various sessions over an 18 month period. Since its release, recordings have been continuing apace with the digital only EPs ‘Songs For the Mean Time’ Vols. 1&2’ (2020, 2022) and Chore Loops (2021) Their second full length LP is set for release in Autumn 2022.

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