CIAN NUGENT

CIAN NUGENT

+ GOODTIME & THE EUROPEAN SENSORIA BAND

Cian Nugent is a guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland who combines personal passions, such as squicky pre-war blues, traditional musics, late 1960s & ’70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, modern composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. His music boasts an orchestrated and fully instrumented sound that is playful and eerie at the same time.

In the past he has toured with people such as Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Ben Reynolds, Nalle, The Family Elan, George Stavis, Jozef van Wissem, C Joynes, Peter Delaney, Thinguma*jigSaw and James Blackshaw throughout Europe and the United States.

“Doubles, the first LP by Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, is a major proclamation of new young talent. As ambitious as it is evolved.” – Grayson Currin, IFC “Cian Nugent’s remarkably self-assured new album Doubles is comprised of two side-long tracks that mix acoustic tangents with reverent drone akin to O’Rourke’s Happy Days.” – Marc Masters, Pitchfork. “With drums, woodwinds, viola, brass and organ, Sixes & Sevens studies a soul in rapturous torrent.” Lars Gotrich, NPR

— New album “Doubles” out now on VHF Records http://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/125.htm ————————–​———— GOODTIME (formerly Goodtime John) is Dublin born John Cowhie (1978, Gemini) His Mother calls him John, his friends call him Goodtime. He has spent the last year writting and recording his 3rd full-lenght album which features Richie Egan (Jape, VisionAir, The Redneck Manifesto) Glenn Keating (Bones, Jape, Somadrone) and Ross Turner (I Am The Cosmos/ Lisa Hannigan). It is entitled The Colours Of Darkness and is due to be released in 2011. http://soundcloud.com/good​timejohn http://goodtime.ie/ ————————–​———— EUROPEAN SENSORIA BAND (Formerly E+S=B, Electronic Sensoria Band) was formed when long-time Wormhole fan Fergus Cullen asked twin brothers Anthony and David Carroll to play with him at legendary Dublin improv club Lazybird. Ditching the guitars in favour of casio keyboards and adding electro-drumpad player Adrienne Flynn of Memory Cells, E+S=B was born. With releases on their own Last Of Our Kind label as well as Deserted Village and Ninepoint records they have played and recorded with the likes of Damo Suzuki (CAN) and Itaru Oki among others. Since then, taking more and more inspiration from the American Free jazz scene of the 60s, E+S=B have scaled down to a three piece line-up consisting of Fergus on guitar and clarinet, Dave and Anthony on drums and bass. http://lastofourkind.wordp​ress.com/ Confirm on Facebook HERE