Jeykll & Jeykll are Irish songwriters and instrumentalists Meg Cronin and Cathal Nally. The Duo recorded their debut EP "Don't Forget to Daydream" in Sept 2018, which they will be releasing this summer 2019. "Endless Aimless Collisions" is the first Single, released June 7th, 2019. The second Single "The Sum of All Tears" will be released in July. In August J&J's first video, animated/illustrated by the outstanding Tia Friedel for Endless Aimless Collisions will also be released. The Full EP will also be out in August, which features the title track, an instrumental in 3 three movements the duo are very proud of. J&J were graced by the outstanding work of Christian Best (Engineering/Mixing/Percussion), Ruairi O'Flaherty (Mastering), Jake Walsh (Bass and all things IT) and Cian O'Sullivan on Drums; they were also very lucky to have the wonderful artwork of Jenny Horgan. Jeykll and Jeykll formed in 2018, performing multiple gigs as a duo around Cork City, most notably at the Kino during the Cork Jazz Festival 2018. Meg and Cathal also gigged regularly with Musical Brotherhood (MB) and Mountainous Riff Club (MRC) as well as performing as a jazz duo in various formats The duo draw on multiple genres from Jazz all the way through to indie: The Smiths to Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Charlie Parker to Lee Morgan; Billy Holiday to Esperanza Spalding, Son House to Rory Gallagher; Chic to Heatwave; The Metres to Vulfpeck.
An identity; a lifestyle; a livelihood; a passion; a purpose; a partner; a devotion; a sacrifice; a goal; a meaning; a prayer; an invocation; a coming together; spirituality; a God; light one can rely on; an amplifier for all things good and a balm and/or accelerant for all things bad.
Endless Flow State, to create something that can be dug at the deepest levels, and play every gig like it's your last night on earth.
Myself
Queen Innuendo. Endless wonder at what was happening
Rory Gallagher for what he did live. Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd for what they did in the studio. The Smiths, Manics and Joy Division for the way they dissected cultural, social and personal ills fearlessly. Charlie Parker for reaching and exhibiting the pinnacle of musicianship (and musical obsession!), Miles Davis for his imagination, John Coltrane for his curiosity, wonder and endless search, pushing the outer limits. Esperanza Spalding for expressing these characteristics (modern iteration). Different day, Different answer.
The kindness of others. The sheer malevolence of others.
"Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave"
At ease. Home.
No more difficult than everybody's reality. Always a shifting landscape. Risk is a constant. Embrace Risk.
So far I like it a lot. LIke its theme, feel, ethos and I like what it's dragging out of me in these questions.
Find it hard to find people to my match work ethic.
As much as I can. That is vitally important, and a great way to open your ears up to new people, and refine your own chops, to see how people are reacting to your own environment. I go to gigs. I try to buy when I can, be that CDs, gig tickets, downloads etc. I try to encourage people at all levels. Music is very important, we are forgetting that.
Persistence and work ethic. A willingness to accept it is no longer 1993, the landscape and the archetypes that stood up for so long have shifted considerably. There is less money in the conventional industry but there is so much opportunity online. We should embrace it. It takes work though. You have to embrace the world you live in and hold out for the digital apocalypse.
I like to point people to Morphine (the band ?). Many have no idea who they are but they were one of the better and most important Seattle Scene bands. Similarly killing Joke, Mike Patton's lesser known projects perhaps, Tomahawk come to mind, British Sea Power. Maybe that's not obscure enough, Barbara Lynn is interesting to me. Mostly I'd encourage people to uncover their own gems and don't be too dismissive, avoid the cooler than thou mindset perhaps.