This Mick’s debut EP 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. Renowned Galway songwriter Don Stiffe, will launch the EP collection in Charlie Byrnes Bookshop, Galway on 4th April, doors 6pm, music starts 6.30pm
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. 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.
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 will be available from Thursday 4th April on all major music platforms. Renowned Galway songwriter Don Stiffe, will launch the EP collection in Charlie Byrnes Bookshop, Galway on 4th April. A further EP launch performance will take place at The Michael J Quille Centre, Kilgarvan, Kerry on Saturday 6th April. Mid-May will see Mick play a special guest slot for Padraig Jack at The Bridge of Song concert series, Castlebar, with more gig announcements to follow.
