| Member Since | 4/24/2006 | | Band Website | www.kieranmcmahon.com | | Band Members | Kieran McMahon Vocals, 6&12-string acoustic & electric guitars
Carola McMahon Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Organ, Backing Vocals
Arne Paul Neumann Bass Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Lap Steel
Johann von Schubert Drums, Percussion | | Influences | Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, The Walker Brothers, Love, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jefferson Airplane, The Band, Talk Talk, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra, The Velvet Underground, Tim Buckley, Richard Hawley, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, The Shadows, David Gray, Antony and the Johnsons, Bill Fay, Nick Lowe, Solomon Burke, Ron Sexsmith, Gordon Lightfoot, Johnny Cash, Jeff Buckley, The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, David Bowie, John Cale, Gene Clark, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, Harry Belafonte, Michael Chapman, Elliot Smith,.... Patrick Kavanagh, Lorca, Liam O'Flaherty, T.E. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Boll, Colin Wilson, Elias Canetti, ...
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“Out of the many outstanding concerts at Popkomm, to watch Belfast crooner Kieran McMahon, who was performing in an old independent cinema in Pankow-Berlin, rousing a horde of bearded locals with his sheer musicality and inimitable style into singing along with the grand finale of one of his songs, left you with no choice but to go straight up and buy his CD”. Nadja Geer / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2008)
“ Songs sung blue...in that noble line stretching all the way back to Leonard Cohen... the honesty and quality of his music is more uplifting than a million shiny happy pop bands.” Jackie Hayden, HOT PRESS, IRELAND
"Not since the early Mike Scott has a songwriter of Celtic origin delivered a debut album of such originality and powerful emotional impact." Ullrich Maurer | www.gaesteliste.de
''At the point where poetic songwriting, indie folk and catchy acoustic pop meet, Kieran McMahon has just delivered a rather remarkable debut album. The orchestrated, piano- and woodwind-embellished, mostly quite melancholy harmonies on Falling Deeper Under A Spell' (Lassomusic, 05) have an ethereal beauty. On top of that, the Irishman sounds like a cool hybrid of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen". Marcus Baumann | Rundschau Regensburg
"Complex snapshots and poetic lyrics set to a beautiful musical background giving expression to the melancholy experienced by someone eternally searching. Songs such as 'Everybody's A Fool Sometimes', 'The Road I Have Wandered', 'Getting Lost Inside Myself' and the beautiful closing song 'Don't Want The Night To End' are just a small selection of examples of Kieran McMahon's magnificent expressiveness, which is carried, in particular, by the sound of his voice, a perfect hybrid of Tim Hardin and Ron Sexsmith" Huub Thomassen | www.realrootscafe.com
"All in all, Falling Deeper Under A Spell draws its great quality and surprising maturity from the successful juxtaposition of at times sublime, wistfully-flowing, introspective and extraordinarily touching folk-pop songs, which makes this one of the most beautiful albums in the passionate singer/songwriter pop genre this year' Thomas Stern | www.b-i-b.de
"Kieran McMahon's debut album 'Falling Deeper Under A Spell' calls Ron Sexsmith to mind. And we're not talking about a boring, third-rate imitation but someone of a comparable musical calibre. The melancholy voice, the resonant vibrato and the feeling for beautiful and melancholy pop melodies are what Ron and Kieran have in common. The CD is completely free of any immature desire for admiration. The listener rather perceives a man with experience observing his environment. The result is authentic, powerful, self-confident and exceptionally good. The last song, 'Don't Want The Night To End', sounds as if it had been borrowed from Neil Young's perfect album Harvest moon. 'Falling Deeper Under A Spell' is highly recommended!" Markus Hillboom | www.musiklivet.com
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