full-on production, current gigs focus on a more intimate approach in smaller venues, with a shift away from heavy sequencing towards a sparser, more organic style.
irish critics have praised philip fogarty as a truly innovative but still quintessentially irish artist. his music has been placed in context with that of many widely varying disciplines. as with all artists of mixed musical origins, his work has proved difficult to categorise meaningfully, the music featuring many undercurrents from the artist’s own background of irish traditional, contemporary, rock and electronica, and yet there is an undeniable thread of identity running through it, an authorative stamp of originality which is uniquely his. his live work fuses together many disparate elements in tandem with his distinctive vocals, from classical and traditional violins to vocoded microphone percussion, from bodhran to synth work and delay feedback effects, along with other conventional instruments such as bass, piano, guitar and drums, running the gamut from walls of noise to the sparsest of soundscapes, as counterpoint to a unique vocal and songwriting style.
