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St. Dominic's Disappearance

by Acko

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1.
01.This Is Where People Love You 04:16
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02.Back In The Day 03:37
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03.Quiet and Me 04:35
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04.The Last Time I saw Johnny 03:44
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05.Million Dollar Heart 03:30
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06.Traditional Song 03:06
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07.Dear Quiet 05:20
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08.The Beatification of St Christopher 05:16
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09.How Quietly You Leave 06:07
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10.Officially Declared Presumed Dead 03:12
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11.We Should Be Singing 05:02

about

Acko releases his debut solo album, ten years in the making, this February 25 on the Felaheen label. The 54-year-old singer-songwriter is the former frontman with Dublin-based pop-punk quartet Grasshopper, who released a slew of singles on the Liquid label back in the mid-90s. A veteran of the Grafton Street busking mafia that also included members of the Frames, Kila, the Mary Janes and The Pale, Acko has also produced albums for Steven O’Brien (Decency Week) and co-wrote and produced two critically acclaimed albums with Peter Murphy (aka Cursed Murphy) as the Revelator Orchestra. Tallaght-born, he has boomeranged between Wexford and Dublin over the past half-century.
St Dominic’s Disappearance comprises eleven songs featuring long-time friends and collaborators Miriam Ingram, ex-Mary Jane Simon Good, Shane Wearen (The Pale) and violinist Colm Mac Con Iomaire.
“When I needed people for parts, it seemed obvious to call on my old busking comrades, even Leslie Keye who did the mastering,” Acko says.
St Dominic’s Disappearance, he adds, deals with themes of friendship, loss, the passing of time.

“At least half of the songs on the album are about a long-lost friend of mine, someone I haven’t seen for at least half the time I’ve known him. It’s funny how some people have a massive effect on your life and then disappear, but you still carry them around with you. I like to tell people that it’s a concept album, but only in the loosest sense. There’s no storyline as such, just a common theme to a few of the songs.
“Time is a strange thing,” he continues, “I feel as close to these songs as I did when I first recorded them 10 years ago. I started the album with ‘This Is Where People Love You’, which offers some sort of solution to a relationship that may have gone off the rails. The key songs are what I call the Quiet Trilogy: ‘Quiet and Me’, ‘Dear Quiet’, and ‘How Quietly You Leave’. I end the album with ‘We Should Be Singing’: it took me a long time to learn the lesson of that song.”
The album emerges from a period of some disillusion and indirection that ended in the Spring of 2019 when Acko went busking for the first time in years. It was a return to year zero moment, a rediscovery of roots.
“I went out one day out of sheer boredom, and something amazing happened. I fell in love with singing all over again. I went out again the next day, and the day after that I bought a PA and started looking for gigs. I just wanted to sing.”
St Dominic’s Disappearance is released on CD and all digital platforms on Friday February 25th
Contact: 0872948075
stdominic@outlook.ie

credits

released February 25, 2022

Acko - Vocals, Guitars, Programming
Colm Mac Con Iomaire - Viola, Bouzouki
Iain King, Simon Good and Vincent Swan - Guitars
Miriam Ingram - Vocals
Noel Quaid - Bass
Shane Wearen - Mandolin
John, Peter, Christopher and Mick Keeley - Vocals

Recorded in Wexford, Dublin, Kildare and Seattle
Mixed and Produced by Acko
Mastered by Les Keye at Arad Studio, Dublin

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