Linda Buckley - From Ocean's Floor review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month

The Guardian 80

(NMC)
The Irish composer combines traditional séan-nos singing with an electronic soundscape, connecting past and future

Traditional music has long provided otherworldly raw material for classical composers, from Vaughan Williams’ cherry-picking of English folk tunes to Steve Reich’s borrowings of Balinese drumming. Linda Buckley is a contemporary composer from County Cork with a track record of doing unusual, interesting things: her previous releases include a luminous green limited-edition cassette of Moog compositions and a song cycle about the supernatural feminine in Irish folklore.