Folk Bands and Artists
Kevin Murphy
http://www.kevinmurphycello.com
Kevin Murphy is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter from Cork. He is also a founding member of critically acclaimed Irish experimental bands Slow Moving Clouds and Seti The First. He also has a new solo project called Blind Stitch and is due to release his debut album – The Emperor’s Lung.
He has co-composed the score for Michael Keegan Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na Heala which the Guardian Newspaper described as the second-best dance production of the 21st Century. He co-composed the score for feature film Tomato Red (2017) directed by Oscar long listed director Juanita Wilson and The Lodgers (2018) which featured at the Toronto Film Festival. He also co-composed the score for acclaimed Irish director Kim Bartley’s new feature documentary True Grit (2020).
Kevin has also featured as a guest musician with many Irish and international artists such as Gavin Friday, Rick Danko and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. He has also collaborated with Irish traditional and folk musicians such as Cormac Breathnach, John Spillane, Phil Callery and Ger Wolfe in live settings and on recordings. His band Seti The First co-wrote two songs on The Waterboys 2017 album Out Of All This Blue. He also participates in the People Collective spearheaded by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Bryce and Aaron Dessner (The National). This has resulted in collaborations with the above artists and others in festivals across Europe in recent years including the Funkhaus in Berlin 2018 and Sounds from a Safe Harbour Cork in 2017 and 2019.
