Myles O'Reilly :: Her First Crios [An Ode To Soft Landings]

Myles O'Reilly performs 'Her First Crios' while Aideen Macken hand weaves a traditional Irish waist belt called a Crios. 'Her First Crios' is featured on the new album from Myles O'Reilly's [Indistinct Chatter] series of ambient works titled 'An Ode To Soft Landings' mylesoreilly.bandcamp.com/alb...
"A 'Crios', pronounced 'Kriss' is a type of hand woven waist belt that was commonly worn in Ireland for many thousands of years. Sadly during British occupation they were banned, and the tradition died out. Each Irish family would have had their own unique pattern. Knowledge of how to weave the family Crios would have been handed down from generation to generation.
Christmas 2021 for Aideen and I was bit rough. We both had Covid. Thankfully my present to Aideen was a small weaving loom. She had only recently joined The Liberties Weavers @thelibertiesweavers, a local organisation dedicated to reviving some of inner city Dublin's old weaving traditions. Where we live in Dublin 8 was for hundreds of years was the weaving mecca of the country. It's here that Aideen learned of the Crios and how to make one.
This film is a document of how we spend a lot of our days at home. I'm making music upstairs and Aideen is weaving downstairs. The cats look on. It details the exact process we both go through in practising our new found crafts. The song I'm playing titled 'Her First Crios' is the current ambient manifestation of a song 'The Most Colorful Thread In The Loom' from the album I released earier this year, the video of which I posted here. It is what the tune has evolved in to now. The emotions from that song, dedicated to Aideen and her weaving, put under the microscope. A deeper and totally instrumental dive in to those feelings, moulded from the same intentions." - Myles
Music mastered by Sean MacErlaine
Opening drone sequence filmed by Bob Dixon
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[@trevtaylor198]

Utterly, totally, beautifully, mesmerising, loving, haunting work from two artists. I wept and then simply gently moved on and made some art to salute your endeavours. Namaste.

[@skystrollyo]

The ending is class ye're class

[@oonaghcostello3450]

Wonderful xx

[@sleepyheadluke]

gorgeous.

[@zerolegel]

You totally got me into actual irish folk music. And others too. To the point where I made an 8 hours road trip to NH, USA just to see Lankum with some friends. Somewhere in the show Radie Peat mentions Lisa O'neill and she gets a few but loud applauses - and clearly all of this was because we heard their music through your incredible videos here on YT. Recently I saw a poster for an irish folk festival where you happened to play and I recognised a good dozen of names. So yeah, your videos are always beautiful, but your work goes far beyond that. Thank you for a wonderful musical journey.

[@danielalexandermclachlanga3781]

ethereal intimacy
with a needed tenderness many are missing
Slainte Myles , true genius

[@ninjalinda1288]

Beautiful people. ❤️

[@conoconnor2962]

beautiful Myles & Aideen 💚

[@dhamma58]

I must say that having been a subscriber since Tegan and Sara in the bookstore....never have I been disappointed in the content or the absolute mastery of image in these videos...only wishing of course that there were many more...

[@anabilmukherjee1133]

You are a genuine genius

[@clarelewtas3786]

Lovely film! The crios is beautiful 💚

[@seanh4841]

Very calming, Cheers Sean from New Zealand

Awesome, that was transportative. I don't think that's a real word but it fits.