Altmusic presents ÁINE O’DWYER

Irish multi-instrumentalist and singer Áine O’Dwyer tours Aotearoa’s churches and cathedrals, rousing minimalist, reverberant soundscapes from their organs along the way.
In the years following the release of O’Dwyer’s acclaimed double album, Music for Church Cleaners vol. 1 & 2, the organ has become an integral site for her meditative and transcendental experimentation.
Sounding-out used and disused sacred spaces, O’Dwyer glides effortlessly between contemporary performance art and the folk traditions that form her musical heritage. Sometimes ornate and fragile, and at others forceful, even terrific in its vigour, O’Dwyer’s improvisational minimalism has won praise in The Wire, The Quietus, BOMB Magazine, the-attic.net, FACT and Pop Matters.