Mise Tusa Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly

• 1 Cúl An Tigh 03:32
• 2 Réir Dé 04:27
• 3 The Fields of Athenry 04:41
• 4 Ní Liom Dom 04:57
• 5 The Crackling Radio 04:35
• 6 Mise Tusa 05:19
• 7 Anseo I Lár an Ghleanna 04:13
• 8 We Don’t See Anything 03:13
• 9 Táimse I mo Dhúiseacht 04:02
• Total Runtime 38:59

Info for Mise Tusa

Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly return with their third collaborative album, deepening one of the most quietly distinctive partnerships in contemporary Irish music and spoken word. Rooted in rhythm, language, and attentive listening, their work lives at the meeting point of story, song, and soundscape, informed equally by tradition and experimentation, and guided by a shared instinct for atmosphere, restraint, and emotional honesty.

Rónán Ó Snodaigh, founding member of Kíla, poet, songwriter, and cultural agitator, brings a voice shaped by the Irish language, street-level politics, and decades of performance that blur chant, song, and invocation. Myles O’Reilly, filmmaker and composer, approaches sound as a visual thinker, creating environments where words can breathe and meaning unfolds slowly and intuitively. Together, they resist spectacle, favouring presence over performance and depth over declaration.

Across their three albums, a clear trajectory has emerged. Tá Go Maith, created during COVID, was an inward, cocooned work, subdued, tentative, and intimate, made for isolated listening and quiet steadiness. A Beautiful Road marked a turning outward, as audiences were invited back into shared space, with performances becoming communal gatherings shaped by call, response, and collective breath.

Mise Tusa completes this arc, not as an ending, but as an ignition. Where the first was isolation and the second was reunion, this record is a ceremony. It brings the listener to the rave, to the mountaintop, to the circle around the fire: the lighting of the flame, the marking of time, the shared trance. It is a collective ascent and a shedding of hesitation, a return to the old knowledge that music is not merely heard, but enacted. This is sound as ritual, rhythm as invocation, a summons to gather, to witness, and to be transformed together.

Rónán Ó Snodaigh, vocals
Myles O’Reilly, hand drums, vocals

Rónán Ó Snodaigh
Born in Dublin 1970 Rónán Ó Snodaigh, one of six brothers, was brought up in an Irish speaking home. His mother is an artist and writer and his father a writer and publisher in the Irish language, Rónán was immersed in an atmosphere of culture and creativity from early days. He started writing poetry in his teens, selling his work on the streets of Dublin’s city centre where he also started his musical career, busking with a collective of young musicians including Glen Hansard, Mic Christopher and Paddy Casey. Kíla started to take form from this busking fraternity with Rónán on bodhran and vocals. They quickly earned wider recognition for their unique blend of traditional Irish, rock and an ability to absorb just about any other musical culture into their writing pot.

n the 80’s Rónán performed and toured with renowned band Dead Can Dance, as percussionist. Returning from these world, stadium tours to write and record, he was soon on the road touring the world with Kíla too.

Celebrating their 25th year together Kíla have played in over 40 countries and worked in every continent to date. They have released 9 albums since the early 1990’s including sound track to the Oscar nominated film The Secret of Kells which they composed and recorded with world renowned film composer Bruno Coulais. They have long been regarded one of Ireland best world music bands and Rónán one of the most innovative and creative bodhrán players. Rónán has recently been endorsed by Korg for their electronic percussion instrument the Wavedrum.

Throughout these years Rónán also found time to build his own solo catalogue. Swopping hat as bodhrán player and lead singer to singer songwriter and composer on multiple instruments, Rónán has produced five solo albums and one soundtrack album to date. Stretching his vocal chords in the English language he had produced four albums sung through mainly English. The gloriously musical Tip Toe and The Playdays bringing together strings, brass and guitar, to the more stark The Last Mile Home, a nod to the blues, and the deliciously funky Water off a Duck’s Back. Tonnta Ró, an all Irish, all percussion album came in the middle and Rónán is currently working on another all Irish guitar based album. His solo work overshadowed or over run by his commitment to Kíla in the past is now getting a bit more space to exist as Kíla are a little less busy. Rónán has composed for a number of TV and film projects over the years, and his instrumental album Wild Journeys is the soundtrack accompanying RTE/ Crossing The Line Nature Series of the same name.

Rónán has played a number of gigs with fellow gaeilgóir Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hot House Flowers). Brought together by their manager for a one off gig for the World Bodhrán Championships, these gigs have been widely acclaimed gems, a brilliant pairing they collaborate and share their musical genius on stage with free abandon.

Always keen to share his experience and knowledge, Rónán has produced a series of short bodhrán workshop videos free to view on youtube and gives frequent workshop/master class in bodhrán/percussion and singing.

Rónán’s contribution to the Irish language, bodhrán playing and Dublin’s music scene is being realized and he will go down in history for his boundless energy on and off stage. In his own words he has loved every minute and his main ambition in music continues to be to enjoy and have fun with it at every opportunity.

Myles O’Reilly
is an Irish musician and filmmaker, born in Dublin, Ireland. He is known for his unique and creative approach to music and film, blending elements of folk and traditional music with modern soundscapes and experimental visuals.

As a musician, O’Reilly has released several compositional-ambient albums and has collaborated with many other artists in the Irish music scene, most notably achieving great success with Rónán Ó Snodaigh (of Kíla). He is particularly interested in the ambient genre and is committed to minimalism, where simplicity and restraint guide his compositions. Focusing on the essence of each sonic component, he allows for a heightened sensitivity to subtle nuances in ambient textures, gentle drones, and ethereal pads. Such textures serve as a canvas upon which he can paint intricate and more compositional sonic details. Above all, his minimal ambient approach is characterized by a deep emotional resonance, evoking a range of feelings from introspection and calmness to a sense of awe and wonder.

As a filmmaker, O’Reilly has produced a range of music videos, short films, and documentaries, many of which have won awards at international film festivals. He is particularly known for his visually stunning and poetic approach to filmmaking, and his work often explores themes of nature, spirituality, and human connection. One of O’Reilly’s most notable film projects was “Arbutus Yarns,” a music documentary collective that he founded in 2010. For a decade, it documented and cataloged a surge in the popularity of folk music from Ireland, giving a significant online platform to artists like Lisa Hannigan, Glen Hansard, Ye Vagabonds, Lisa O’Neill, Radie Peat, Anna Mieke, and many more. He disbanded the collective in 2020 to focus on his own musical ambitions.

Overall, Myles O’Reilly is a talented and innovative artist who has made significant contributions to both the Irish music and film worlds. His work is known for its creativity, beauty, and emotional depth, and he continues to inspire and captivate audiences around the world.

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