Anamnesis by Síle Denvir

Please note due to manufacturing delay, CD's will be shipped from end of April.

ANAMNESIS is an album of sean-nós songs by singer Síle Denvir. Produced by John Reynolds, this album is a journey through song with the creation of a meditative, evocative soundworld.

SEAN-NÓS, meaning old-style, is a traditional way of singing in Irish. The songs on this album are from Connemara in the west of Ireland. They are rooted in the old bardic tradition, and although from another time and space, these songs tell stories of the eternal human condition – stories of love, life and loss, and everything in between. Connection with land and nature are ever present in these songs, the birds, mountains, seas and rivers, laying the foundation for imagery and metaphor. The concept of Anamnesis – the idea of learning being essentially recollection, bringing to the forefront of the mind what lies at the back of it, or of recapturing a memory that we hazily retain – perfectly captures the essence of the soundworld created through this album.

Le tacaíocht ó 'Foras na Gaeilge'

Síle Denvir is a sean-nós singer and harpist who is deeply influenced by her upbringing in the west of Ireland Connemara Gaeltacht where she was surrounded by music and song from an early age. A native Irish speaker, her singing is very much rooted in the ancient style of sean-nós or old-style Gaelic singing, and she has the ability to make the local global through her ethereal performance style.