The Late Great TOWNES VAN ZANDT leaving a Galway bar in tears...CHARALAMBIDES...JOHNNY CASH singing HURT...RICHARD YOUNGS...NEIL YOUNG...PINK FLOYD...SIGUR ROS...CURRENT 93 raising SLEEP HAS HIS HOUSE high into the Glasgow night on hammered piano, blasted guitars and sad litanies...HUGGY BEAR...CLUSTER...W.B. YEATS...LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS...ALASTAIR GALBRAITH...NICK DRAKE...DEVENDRA BANHART...PLANXTY...RICHARD SKELTON...THE COSMIC NANOU...PABLO NERUDA...WILLIAM BASINSKI...ROY HARPER...TALK TALK...A-HA...RED HOUSE PAINTERS...BURZUM...ROY MONTGOMERY...NORTHERN EXPOSURE...BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP...When I look at the stars I hear LABRADFORD...POPOL VUH...FLYING SAUCER ATTACK...early SEBADOH...SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS...JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, The Bard Of Dalymount...ANNE BRIGGS and the way she might sing to ye...All the old sci-fi/childrens tv shows I love...especially Sydney Sager's soundtracks for CHILDREN OF THE STONES & INTO THE LABYRINTH...( Anyone got them on cd???)
Sounds Like
"His works as Agitated Radio Pilot are timeless psychedelic folk evocations that could be just as easily be compared to Townes Van Zandt as Current 93. We're talking deeply moving stuff here that comes from a place where ego and pretension are mostly left behind. Many, many artists come to mind, yet Colohan has such a striking and personal vision that there's really no point in naming names." Kevin Moist, Deep Water Acres
"The tag 'loner folk' has been thrown around when discussing a lot of Colohan's back catalogue but there doesn't seem to be very much self indulgence here, even though many of the tracks are deeply personal. Instead Colohan seems to have a preternatural sense of the elemental, those dark places we all go to take off our disguises. So many artists have treaded this ground before and seemed insincere, but Colohan's vulnerability, his human voice that presents these unadorned truths without spin or motive, makes me want to listen and believe."
Foxy Digitalis
The long-time project of Midlander and Deserted Village lynchpin Dave Colohan, Agitated Radio Pilot is just as often a sprawling multi-piece orchestra as it is Dave alone with only his guitar and voice. But regardless, ARP makes music of stark sadness, melancholic warmth and the sound of the forest. He's brought his personal vision of folk to just about everywhere in Ireland and has played alongside such acts as Johnny Moynihan, Dr Strangely Strange, Charalambides, Josephine Foster, Andy Irvine, Audrey Ryan, Voice Of The Seven Woods, Jack Rose, Sunroof!, Fursaxa, Sharron Kraus and many others...Dave is or has been a member of other such projects as United Bible Studies, The Driftwood Manor, Resurrection Fern, The Abandonment Issue, The Magickal Folk Of The Faraway Tree, Cubs, Murmansk, Holt, Lost Roman Legions, Team Discovery Channel, Arkhangelsk, Townparks Foundry, Children Of The Stones, Lodern and others too shady to mention & will never let a band get in the way of a good band name...
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With enthusiasm, I tore into the extremely well wrapped package from Dave Colohan expecting the new Magical Folk double disc or maybe an early copy of the infamous compilatation. but...what did I find? 4 copies of my old CD and no explanation... enjoy the states and do drop by Bellingham I'm in the NW Corner of the most NW state
I see a Pilot, lurking around the interweb in the morning... I'm still removing sand from various orifices after the weekend! (read into that what you will...)
At long last we get to do a show together..deburgos on the 31st july!! Cant believe it !! twill be mighty!! off to berlin very soon ..back on the 5th june..slim chance might see ya before the fantastic tour but am still hopeful!!Tis been too long! xxxmw
salutations yon pilot, tas been a long time...my apologies; I've fallen out of myspacery ways, we must find a new mode of communication: letter writing, pigeon or even telepathy. Trust I find you in good sorts. Just home from a wee jaunt to coastal somerset where i crossed paths with polvo and silver jews amongst others, yr indie rock post rings true. talk soon, to the futuR, baz
