The Parish recording project assembled by Donal Dineen late in 2010 began life three years previously with a show he put together for Body & Soul at the Electric Picnic in 2007 with Liam O Maonlai & Ronan O Snodaigh. That spectacular night ended with a promise to try & get together in the studio whenever time allowed. So finally, this January, Donal spent a fortnight in the Exchequer Studios in Dublin with Liam & Niwel Tsumbu a Congolese musician he has been working with regularly over the past two years. The recording began by covering some of the ground they touched on in 2007's & subsequent Electric Picnic appearances but soon progressed to the composition of original material.

Liam is the songwriter in chief with vocal duties shared with Aminah Dastan from the group Madu. Subsequent sessions took place with Ronan on persussion, Andre Antunes on drums and Peter Erdei on bass, all of whom have joined Donal onstage for his body & soul dates over the last couple of years. The cover versions will be released on the Parish Records label in a series of six likely called Re Echoes and the original material will see the light of the day on an LP called Notes.

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