John Daly

Homage to Shaman Stone

Shaman Stone extracts knowledge, stories and wisdom of the ancient world by standing for days with old stones from the hills balanced on his head.
John Daly lives in Ballinafad, a village in County Sligo, Ireland.

John Daly: baritone guitar,ebow,melodica,effects,samples.
Joaquin Mendoza: Pd patch..starts 15 min into track.https://soundcloud.com/joaquin-mendoza 



JAZZISH

John Daly: Guitars, ebow, loops, delays, mixing, field recordings, melodica
Magic Maths: Paulo Chagas, flute.
My rose coloured eyes turned blue: Wilhelm Matthies, Mosesa.




whitelabelT52​:​vocalisations

Various tracks with vocal content. Guitar, loops, delays, glitch and grains. released 04 July 2013
John Daly. Guitar, samples, mixing.



Feedback Generators

Mostly live recordings using guitar, loop station, effects, Mac Book running Gleetchlab. There are some field recordings and mixing. All sounds are played or created by Tunedin52 aka John Daly. The album starts as it means to go on with the track ‘Pre listening' an ethereal journey with some mild turbulence, a few intrusions, exploring an atmosphere infused with sonic vibrations and random pulses.




Soft Envelope

John Daly: guitar, voice, mixing



Personal reasons led me to meeting John Daly's output for the first time, and what was found is surely deserving of being divulged to a wider audience. A 61-year old photographer and musician from Ireland, Daly distills his own special blend of psychedelically tinged sonic domains utilizing a mildly preconditioned baritone guitar processed by several looping / delay pedals, the outcome swollen by a software called Gleetchlab to add further layers of foggy enigma.



The man has been honing his soundscaping skills for decades now, and it shows independently from the fact that you might appreciate certain choices more or less (for example, the nebulously mumbling voices in tracks like “Automated Systems” or the gorgeous “Mary's Story” could divert the attention – just a bit - from the riveting textural fabrics unfolding in the background). What ultimately persuaded me is the individuality transpiring from Daly's proposals: “When I Dream Of Russia” wraps us with monolithic low-frequency resonance minus the humdrum component; the lengthy “Her Wish” is an absorbingly unfathomable galactic journey. My favorite pieces are those where the spirit of the guitar appears as an uncrystallized entity releasing beautiful chordal scents – not necessarily consonant, mind you - extended by the treatments and hovering all over the place (“Shadows” and, especially, the magnificent “Waters Blessed”). In any case there is always a feeling of sincerity in this music's brooding iteration, which distances it from the loads of miserable commonplacers who believe that anybody can ingest a phoney “Om”.



I won't continue with otiose blathering. Without acting as a trademark copycat, this gentleman – who records in a space known as Tigh Macalla (“Echo Room” in the Irish language) – produced an excellent work that should appeal, at least in part, to fans of Aidan Baker, Peter Wright and – depending on the moment – Andrew Chalk, but also to the liege men of contemporary underground electronica (thinking of PBK and the likes) and even refined ambient labels such as Hypnos. You know that we do not specialize in adulation here, so mark my words: it is never too late for a serious artist to expose his/her credibility.

by Massimo Ricci

http://tighmacalla.wordpress.com/
https://soundcloud.com/tunedin52
http://tunedin52.bandcamp.com/