Rachael Lavelle & Crash Ensemble

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One of the most interesting voices to emerge in recent times has been Dublin-born singer and avant pop composer Rachael Lavelle. Her Choice Music Prize nominated debut album Big Dreams is an existential coming-of-age record that chronicles the journey of a young woman searching for direction and meaning in a very strange world. Inspired by sounds of everyday life and an intriguing obsession with YouTube self-help videos, the album explores romance, sleeping, eating, work and the search for love, reimagining them in a dream-like musical landscape of luscious synths, manipulated vocals, cinematic sound design, strings, woodwind and electronic beats. This collaboration between Lavelle and the Ireland’s new music tour-de-force Crash Ensemble led by Musical Director Kate Ellis is a marriage made in art music heaven.