Evocation

Evocation was released in 2022 and features 11 remixed and reimagined compositions and arrangements by Michael McGlynn including the globe-spanning “Maalaulu”

Digital Release October 30th 2022

The best way to describe the latest ANÚNA album is that it is dream-like, a selection of music previously released that has been lovingly re-mixed, re-mastered and re-edited by composer Michael McGlynn and engineer Brian Masterson.

“Covid changed so much for all of us” says McGlynn.

“It forced me to discard some of the traditional ideas I have had about creating albums. I want something now that is a cohesive experience, developing throughout an album, rather than just a series of one off disconnected songs. Concurrent with the album I will be releasing the film to YouTube ANÚNA : Evocation, a selection of evocations that evoke a sense of time and place, many of which are deeply special for me. I think this album points the way forward for our future recording projects.

Some of the songs on this release evoke very personal expressions. Evocation IV begins with my uncle John McGlynn on harmonica leading into “One Last Song”, a tale of a dying soldier. Evocation I is probably the most personal expression of my own relationship to my homeland.

Evocation XI is my Covid piece, a multi-national recording "Maalaulu" created for the Tampere Vocal Music Festival, featuring Finnish soprano Marjukka Tepponen and Gospel icon Isaac Cates’ Ordained from Kansas City, USA. On this track as well as Evocation VI my children Aisling and Lauren appear as soloists while my brother John duets with me on Evocation X and my wife Lucy Champion sings with the Ulster Orchestra on Evocation III. My cousin Éabha McMahon also is soloist on Evocation VII. I suppose the entire record is a an evocation of the past while being a dream for the future”.