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...[A]lso at home, Niamh De Barra is making similarly air-filled music informed by dubstep, noise, choral loops and pinned together by cello. - The Sunday Tribune
"The Dublin-based scurvy lass delivers four exquisite, imaginative, daring, magical songs to stop you in your tracks."
- The Irish Times
Discography
"Cusp" EP - Second Square To None, Ireland, 2010. Nominated for Best EP of 2010, Digital Socket Awards, also played on 2FM and Phantom FM, Ireland.
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Bio
Niamh de Barra is an Irish electronic musician, currently based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Originally a classical pianist, she graduated from NUI Maynooth in 2005 with a B.Mus in Piano Performance. She now works primarily with cello, voice and electronics. In a live setting, she uses sampling software to record and layer different textures, and to build a song from scratch. From 2002 she was part of the John Mary Trilogy, an experimental/improv band from which she split in 2008 to pursue a solo career.
Her first solo performance was in 2009 (under the name Scurvy Lass); since then she has played at a diverse range of events, including the Rathlin Jigs & Rigs festival on Rathlin Island; A4 Sounds in Belfast; The !K Club, Second Square to None, The Ruby Sessions, DEAF 2009 and as headline act at a range of venues all over Ireland.
A debut EP "Cusp", released in August 2010, was nominated for the Digital Socket Awards, and Niamh was named as one of 2010's best Irish acts by Jim Carroll (Irish Times). A full-length album is due for release in 2011.
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