Ceann Capaill is a shape-shifting music project led by Irish multi-instrumentalist Declan Haughian. Born as a studio experiment, each song grows from immersive collaboration — sometimes lasting days, sometimes weeks — with a revolving cast of musicians, artists, videographers, and writers.
Rooted in the rural landscape of the Mourne Mountains where Haughian grew up, Ceann Capaill’s sound moves fluidly between rough phone-recorded field sounds and expansive large-room sessions. Cascades of woodwinds rise and fall like weather systems, while fragments of melody drift in and out of focus, like memories surfacing through mist. Gritty, mud-thick guitars rumble beneath the shimmer of wind chimes, clattering rhythms and the spectral hiss of tape machines.
No two songs follow the same path, but all carry the imprint of experimentation and place. It’s the drone of a mountain road, the haze of peat smoke, the echo of something half-remembered. More collective than band, more instinct than plan, Ceann Capaill is an ongoing invitation to make something strange and true, together.
Support From London's Sculpture Park
Sculpture Park combine direct songwriting with intricate textures, moving between piano balladry and skittering polyrhythms. They released their first album ‘Monument to Effort’ earlier this year, via Joy of Life Intl., the label project of The Golden Dregs’ Ben Woods. Since the departure of their saxophonist James Hurst, they have been joined live by a rotating cast of instrumentalists, giving each show a character distinct from the last.
