Islander Presents

Myles O’Reilly’s ambient pharmacy

Sunday 27th November 2022
St Peter’s
14:00 - 17:00
Price: FREE

Myles O’Reilly is a musician, composer and filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. Since first lifting a camera in 2010, multi tasking O’Reilly has filmed, directed and edited over 100 music video promo’s and 20+ music documentaries of Irish musicians at home and abroad, some of which include Glen Hansard, Villagers, Imelda May, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Sinead O’Connor and Lisa Hannigan alongside other International artists such as Hollywood sound track virtuoso Ernst Reijseger, Icelandic artists Soléy, Múm and Amiina, US soul phenomenon Janelle Monea and UK folk trio The Staves.

Myles O Reilly is no stranger to Quiet Lights audiences. He has long documented the festival, was the featured artist in 2019 and has a short film coming out documenting the festival called Cork Under Quiet Lights, which premieres at the Cork International Film Festival.

Early life as a working musician began for Myles in 2003 with the band Juno Falls. Signed for two albums by Sony UK and then V2 records, Juno Falls disbanded in 2010. Ten years later and in a global pandemic lockdown, Myles returned to making music and has since composed, recorded and released a plethora of works in the ‘ambient’ music genre.

Since releasing his first album Laistigh den Ghleo alongside the first reissue of Satoshi Ashikawa’s seminal record Still Way, Gareth Quinn Redmond’s work has continued to be inspired by the concept of Kankyō Ongaku, Environmental Music.

This concept runs throughout Gareth’s approach to writing, which focuses on building and sustaining a connection between the listener and their environment. Last year saw the release of An Fhuaim is Caoine, a twenty minute ambient piece inspired by the discovery of an old music box, which is blended together with intimate string arrangements and analogue synthesisers.

This was followed in early 2021 by a brief departure into the world of electronica/dance alongside producer James Smith (Yurn) with their collaborative E.P Life’s Slow Build. More recently, Gareth released his album, Oscailte, a synth driven work inspired by the sound of the Juno 60 synthesiser, which was spontaneously written across a twelve hour burst of creativity.

Next year will see the release of 3 albums, out on Hidden Harmony Recordings, WRWTFWW Records and Francis Harris’ new label Out of Habit.

Simon O’Reilly is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, music video maker and cofounder of Hedge School festival His is based in Lahinch in the west of Ireland where he has his recording studio.

Working with many musicians including The ConTempo Quartet, Myles O’Reilly, Rufus Nightjar, Steve Wall, Davey Spillane, Twin Headed Wolf, Kila, Luka Bloom, Susan O’Neill, and The Monks Of Glenstal amongst others. He has written music for award winning films and documentaries including Sundance award winner The Summit. He has cowritten songs with Steve Wall of The Stunning and was a cowriter on These were the days a featured track on Mic Flannery & Susan O’Neills Choice music award nominated 2021 album ‘In the game ‘

In 2022 he curated a stage at the Body & Soul festival for Doolin Arts. He is also a member of the band APO-33 who preform live music scores to films