Hugh Doolan

Artist Bio

A guitar slinging singer-songwriter and composer with a strong leaning towards home-spun acoustic recording on the one hand and ambient, orchestral electronica on the other! Many’s the stint in Clubs, Theatres, Festivals; Busking & Recording in Dublin, Berlin, all over Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Currently working on collaborations,soundtracks for documentaries and writing songs for another album.

“Slopey”,  the first digital release - available now on Bandcamp, CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon - is an album of melodic and catchy songs showcasing a heart-worn, folk-soul voice, each track carefully hewn from granite-like dedication with trusty collaborator Jason Ellis; think edgy yet tonally rich vocal delivery akin to Ray Lamontagne or even Nick Drake, with Lou Reed the provider of lyrical slant. Operating in the alternative/folk/folk-soul genre Hugh has left plenty of room for a boot-stamp of originality, where styles have a pendulum effect from track to track whilst still retaining soulful identity. Examples of this are heard on the mali-esque playfulness of ‘See Africa’, the sheer classic byrdsy tone of ‘Cupidz tune’ and the intense brooding on ‘Crime’.

The next digital release was “Clear as day as the night is long”which was released in November 2010. Preview tracks are available here and on Grooveshark. Most of the songs on this album were recorded at home in Rush, Co. Dublin where alongside new material the remainder were taken from an extensive, near cob-webby back-catalogue; the recording approach favours an ear for intimacy with the listener, soon drawing you into a broader landscape as the album progresses. Hugh and Sara Jane are also currently writing/recording a separate batch of country and folk songs aimed at female singers.

If that wasn’t enough Hugh is an active member of Irish-run DJ social networking site www.rocudo.com exploring streamed but remixable electronic music.

During the day Hugh works with software and finding things wrong with it!

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