New album, From Ocean’s Floor, out now on NMC. Featuring Iarla Ó’Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, Isabelle O’Connell, Joby Burgess, Contempo Quartet and Darragh Morgan. Guardian folk album of the month, and Folk Radio editor’s pick.
- ‘An excellent portrait of one of Ireland’s most interesting composers’ Journal of Music
- ‘The intensity of her work is irresistible – a generous portrait that is full of surprises and unsettling questions.’ Tim Rutherford-Johnson, The Rambler
- ‘It’s clear how much Buckley deeply connects her past to her present, opening up possibilities for our mutual musical futures.’ Guardian
- ‘Music of mythic magic … sublime as well as brilliant – richly and strangely powerful.’ BBC Radio 3 New Music Show
- ‘Linda Buckley is unquestionably one of the most exciting, prolific and ‘ecstatic’ composers to come from Ireland in recent times.’ RTÉ
- ‘Diverse and ultra imaginative work, intense and shimmering…’ BBC Radio Scotland
- ‘Intelligent, atmospheric and strangely beautiful.’ ★★★★ Songlines
- The works on this album are captivating; I couldn’t tear myself away.’ ★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
Upcoming
- July 2025
- Thar Farraige selected for the New Music Biennial – Bradford and Southbank London
Thar Farraige will be performed at the New Music Biennial held in Bradford (Loading Bay, June 8th) and Southbank Centre London (July 6th).
With Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ailis Sutherland (pipes) and the Maxwell Quartet
- July 2025
- Nosferatu Live Score at Kinsale Arts Weekend
Live score for viola, cello, organ and electronics performed at St. Catherine’s Cultural Centre, co-composed with Irene Buckley at Kinsale Arts Weekend.
- September 2025
- Metropolis Live Score at Glasgow Cathedral Festival
Live Score to Metropolis film presented at the Glasgow Cathedral Festival, co-composed with Irene Buckley, for two percussionists with electronics.
- October 2025
- New work for Clarinet and Piano commissioned by Music in Monkstown
New work commissioned by John Finucane (clarinet) for Music in Monkstown, Dublin
About
Linda Buckley is an Irish composer/performer who creates electronic and acoustic music, often in the realm of glitch, drone and dark ambient. In September 2020 her NMC record, From Ocean’s Floor was released, praised by Iggy Pop on BBC Radio 6 as “beautiful music – here is somebody really, really special”. Read more »
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