Album Notes

" Six track mini album featuring Arrested, Acid sky, Lay down, Wasting, Hei Hei Heimari and Tears. Tolka is based around singer songwriter S murphy, born and raised on the northside of Dublin, hence the reference to the tolka river. The album features a truly beautiful blend of sixties and seventies folk sounds with just some touches of dirty three like ambience. There are hints of the kind of dark sombre folk of the likes of Nick Drake blended with some really lovely string and brass sounds. November 2009 " Road Records

The initial sessions began in my long time friend and collaborator Chris Dolan's apartment in Dublin. We had the goal of recording an album in the two weeks I had left before I moved to Finland. It took seven months!

Mostly recorded in my home studio in Helsinki, Tears features a host of guest players from various bands around Helsinki and Dublin such as producer and multi instrumentalist Jonny Tennant (The Ease, Bardoi), Sampo Kuisma (The Death of Gagarin), Jean Ramsay (The Spoonshiners), Miika Penttala and Eemeli Nikula (R.W.B.K.) to name a few. Mastered by Daniel Moloney (a DnB/Jungle hero who works under the name DEGREE) in his personal studio's in Dublin. The cover art was an original piece by Karl McCamley named "Daphne". The songs are all quite old but were never recorded. I wanted to get them down and put them out there so that I could catch up to my more recent stuff, and that people could have the choice to listen to them if they wanted. It ended up being a blood, sweat and other bodily fluids kind of thing but thats alright with me!