FOLK FRIDAY RADIO – DAVID DEE MOORE SHOW – EP OF THE WEEK
SHANNONSIDE/NORTHERN SOUND – MIKE MULVIHILL – FEATURED EP OF THE WEEK
“Deserved EP of the week, really really good songs he’s put together. Well recorded in Songcraft Studios, mastered by the fabulous Richard Dowling. He’s done it all right, he’s recorded good songs and produced them to top quality. If you like your folk singing, if you like your stories listen to Mick Brown. This is a lovely EP”, David Dee Moore, Folk Friday Radio.
Renowned Singer Songwriter Don Stiffe, has great praise for the EP: “The stories in the songs are wonderful. This CD is a beautiful piece of work, there’s 5 beautiful songs on it” Don Stiffe
Radio Play to date: Galway Bay Fm, Midwest Radio, Shannonside/Northern Sound, Radio Kerry, Dublin City FM, KCLR, Tipp Midwest & Global Irish Radio
The collection is an authentic journey in song, where life’s joy and sadness, love and loss, companionship, solitude and community are explored through the prism of hope. This eagerly anticipated EP collection of 5 folk songs follows previous song releases, Somewhere Further down the Line, Huckleberry Finn and Me and Song for Brigid, which achieved widespread radio play throughout Ireland, UK and beyond.
Recorded in Songcraft Studios, and mastered by Richard Dowling, WAV Mastering, the EP was a massive learning curve for Mick, “The writing and recording of the EP challenged me to the core in terms of Songwriting”, Mick explains. “It is my first EP/CD release, I had to dig deep. I was trying to write and be faithful, as best I could, to what I was feeling inside”. The result is an authentic journey in song, where life’s joy and sadness, love and loss, companionship, solitude and community are explored through the prism of hope.
Mick’s songwriting is rooted in the fabric of his life, and grounded in the traditional folk style of the west of Ireland. His songs are carved from the ebb and flow of life, where the wild Atlantic ocean meets the western coastline. He outlines how the EP’s title track, Remember how we Dreamed, “is a voyage back to times when we dared to believe we could change the world”. The song is a story of love, and the simpler days of youth when everything seemed possible: “no need for gold nor diamonds blue, the stars above enough for you”.
Hope across the Sea commemorates those who have lost their lives in the ocean and those who face into gale and storm to save lives. Huckleberry Finn and me, meanwhile, hearkens back to long rambling days of childhood, with Highland Radio’s Paul McDevitt describing it as “an absolutely brilliant song, which carries an air of carefree days when things were a bit simpler”.
Ilen River, written in a John Spillane songwriting workshop, taps into Brown’s own previous experiences of emigration. The song brilliantly uses the metaphor of the river Ilen to describe an emigrants yearning for home and loved ones. Somewhere further down the line, a tender exploration of love and loss, will resonate deeply with listeners, inviting them to reflect on the ordinary, everyday happenings that make up a life of enduring love.
Remember How We Dreamed is now available for purchase in CD or download format, also available on all major music platforms. The EP was launched at a special concert performane in Charlie Byrnes bookshop Galway on 4th April this year. Mick headlined a show in the Michael J Quill centre, Kilgarvan on 6th April. He will play a special guest support slot for Padraig Jack at The Bridge of Song concert series, Castlebar, with more gig announcements to follow.
