A walk in Tallaght.
”Patterns” could easily be the title of one of the short stories included in James Joyce’s ”Dubliners”
I imagine Stephen as the boy in ”The Sisters” wondering about the words paralysis, gnomon or simony or walking through the streets of Dublin reading all the theatrical advertisements in the shopwindows.
I imagine that ”Patterns” is set in Tallaght rather than Dublin’s city center and I can see Stephen walking through the streets and the industrial around there.
I can see him wearing a superhero mask, looking at the mirror or watching Shamrock Rovers at the stadium.
The urgency to record these songs, the impossibility to find a porper cable during the lockdown, the wish of sounding close to the artists that spoke to him when he first heard the music that made him feel a passion for it, made Stephen invent a new recording tecnique. Using a microcassette recorder and playing tricks with a cable he happened to find, he made these songs sound very old and dirt.
”Patters” is a collection of short songs that are short stories and it is out now on Almost Halloween Time Records in a limited edition of 50 copies with unique hand painted covers.
