Hydra

‘Sumptuous folk songs’ * * * * Folk Album of the Month The Guardian
RTE Radio1 Album of the Week
‘dazzling..’ MOJO
‘It doesn’t get much better’ KLOFmag.com

Following the hand of fate which guided them from a remote village in the Austrian Alps to a tiny island in Greece, long time musical collaborators Irish traditional singer and musician Nuala Kennedy and Dubliner / New Yorker singer songwriter Eamon O’ Leary have created an atmospheric new album of songs entitled ‘Hydra’.

Hydra is an island where cars are prohibited and the main mode of transport is by donkey or by foot. Recorded in ‘The Old Carpet Factory’ an eighteenth century mansion whose large open windows overlook the port, the album is vibrates with the unhurried bohemian charm and luscious simplicity that made this place so attractive to past luminaries such as Henry Miller, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lawrence Durrell, Leonard Cohen and his love Marianne Ihlen…