Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly

Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly bring together rhythm, language and immersive sound in one of the most quietly distinctive collaborations in contemporary Irish music. A founding member of Kíla, Ó Snodaigh’s voice moves between chant, song and incantation, shaped by the Irish language and decades of boundary-blurring performance. Composer and filmmaker O’Reilly builds spacious, atmospheric environments where words are given room to breathe and unfold. Together they favour presence over spectacle, creating live performances that feel less like concerts and more like shared, attentive gatherings, intimate, hypnotic and emotionally direct.

The duos second album The Beautiful Road, a soulful blend of folk, traditional and ambient crossover follows the success of their debut album Tá Go Maith, which was warmly received by Irish audiences after its release in May 2020.

In The Beautiful Road the pair set out to create a soothing listening experience by focusing on higher frequencies, inspired by the calming effects of nature, while also seeking to counter the increased levels of intrusive ambient ‘white noise’ caused by traffic, machinery, and other unpredictable sounds arising from the world’s post pandemic return to frenzied norms.