Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly Mise Tusa

Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly Mise Tusa - Vinyl "Metallic Gold"

Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly return with their third collaborative album, deepening one

of the most quietly distinctive partnerships in contemporary Irish music and spoken word.

Rooted in rhythm, language, and attentive listening, their work lives at the meeting point of

story, song, and soundscape, informed equally by tradition and experimentation, and guided by

a shared instinct for atmosphere, restraint, and emotional honesty.

Rónán Ó Snodaigh, founding member of Kíla, poet, songwriter, and cultural agitator, brings a

voice shaped by the Irish language, street-level politics, and decades of performance that blur

chant, song, and invocation. Myles O’Reilly, filmmaker and composer, approaches sound as a

visual thinker, creating environments where words can breathe and meaning unfolds slowly and

intuitively. Together, they resist spectacle, favouring presence over performance and depth over

declaration.

Across their three albums, a clear trajectory has emerged. Tá Go Maith, created during COVID,

was an inward, cocooned work, subdued, tentative, and intimate, made for isolated listening and

quiet steadiness. A Beautiful Road marked a turning outward, as audiences were invited back

into shared space, with performances becoming communal gatherings shaped by call,

response, and collective breath.

Mise Tusa completes this arc, not as an ending, but as an ignition. Where the first was isolation

and the second was reunion, this record is a ceremony. It brings the listener to the rave, to the

mountaintop, to the circle around the fire: the lighting of the flame, the marking of time, the

shared trance. It is a collective ascent and a shedding of hesitation, a return to the old

knowledge that music is not merely heard, but enacted. This is sound as ritual, rhythm as

invocation, a summons to gather, to witness, and to be transformed together.