Lisa O'Neill: Tiny Desk Concert
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- Bob Boilen | July 11, 2023
Drones abound, and a pensive atmosphere filled the office when Lisa O'Neill and her bandmates began one of my favorite songs of 2023, "Old Note." The deep, harmonic drones comprise a bowed hammer dulcimer, a shruti box, a harmonium and a bowed upright bass. Then the Irish singer's plaintive voice tells a tale she describes as "orality" and "how we communicated before we started writing stuff down. It's a song also about hearing the music in nature.
There are many ways to conjure joy with music. Some aim for party music, with uplifting beats that get your body moving, but Lisa O'Neill walks a different path. For her joy is about connecting with the plants, the animals, and our surroundings and feeling grateful for the world around us.
The songs performed here come from her 2023 album All of This Is Chance. The music is stark and cerebral, the voice singular and personal with few flourishes, and I find it captivating. With all the weight of stories and song, there are moments of cheer, especially on the one non-album track, "When Cash Was King." Here, we're talking robots and King Charles and a nod to the cusp of change we witness daily.
SET LIST
"Old Note"
"Silver Seed"
"When Cash Was King"
"Goodnight World"
MUSICIANS
Lisa O'Neill: vocals, banjo, guitar, harmonium, shruti box
Joe Doyle: double bass
Brian Leach: hammer dulcimer
Mic Geraghty: shruti box, harmonium
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel
Audio Assistant: Josephine Nyounai
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Catie Dull
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Frame, Hazel Cills
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
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Old Note was the song that accompanied me on the day and night of my beloved Dad's passing. It was the CD I had in the car by chance and I just played that song on repeat on the way to and from the hospice and on the drive out to tell me mother he had passed in the dead of night. Perfect, moving. He was a singer , as am I . When I listen to it now , I can't describe the feeling.
Such a magical song for you and him to journey by.
I love this, it's beautiful for you to share that. As a musician myself, I wanted to say that perhaps you should write a song about this song and/or the feeling you get when you hear it, how its indescribable? I don't know, just something to think about!
music is magic, I have a similar experience and connection to another song as it was on when I was driving to the hospice to hold dads hand while he died - funny it was early spring last year and we managed to wheel him outside for one last experience of sunshine on his face and he kept saying 'oh yeah' Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d'Eau Douce - Oh Yeah
I have literally had the same experience with this song with my mother’s passing 3 weeks ago… 💔
@@EdwardGains I'm sorry for your loss. As strangers, somehow we are all united under a common thing: music.
I saw Lisa perform this not long ago, she explained what it means. She said we're surrounded by noise, traffic, phones, TV, etc, she described them as surface noises, but said underneath all that noise are old notes, within the ground & they've been there since the dawn of time. She believed the ground underneath us is alive & carries something fundamental to all humans.
Love her. It's like if Edith Piaf had been born in Cavan.
She moves my soul, as she says" can't quantify the the feeling "but this beautiful Earth singer moves me♥️🌷
I've been utterly obsessed with "Old Note" ever since I stumbled upon it on my YT feed a couple months ago. I can't remember the last time a song has moved me so deeply. The day after I first heard it, I pulled my wife aside, played the song for her, and told her "THIS is the song I want you to play at my funeral."
A week later, we had to put down our beloved 14 year old dog, Bella. For the following week, I played "Old Note" on repeat about 1,000 times. For the rest of my life, whenever I hear this song, I will feel close to Bella and remember her fondly.
Thank you, Ms. O'Neill.
I feel your love through this story and this song. Thank you for sharing, thank you for your love.
Lisa O'Neill
Ancestors must be so proud...
As a Kerryman
This cavan woman soothes my soul she is mighty that why she was chosen to sing Kristy part in fairytale of NY
At shanes funeral
She is a credit to auld Ireland 🇮🇪
And her family.
Cash is still King
Darling
NPR never fail to deliver ...
blown away. “old note” is one of the most moving songs i’ve heard in such a long time, what a treasure
I honestly can’t listen to it without crying. Reminds me so much of my Nanna
first time ever hearing lisa, cant quite put a finger on what is so transfixing about her music but i can't stop listening
It's the Cavan
I didn't know transfixing was a word. I'm gonna use that now
Irish folk.... that's the finger
Its basically Delia Murphy for modern times
Right there with you! Traditional Irish Folk can, because of the "Troubles", fall down a rabbit hole of misery (like Morrissey, or a very funny St. Pat's Day ep of Cheers where Sam hires the WRONG Irish band.😂). The best Irish folk rides the twin rails of bittersweet/lamentful and hopeful. Lisa et al are the best of Irish folk music. Absolutely beautiful.
I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!! Old note makes me cry every time!!!!
She has an utterly hypnotic presence, I feel like I fall in to her songs and wake up from them like a trance when they're over...
Yes, like a dream that reminds me of a feeling that I've felt as a child but had long forgotten...and yet unique and new. An unknown but still familiar realm.
Beautifully said.
The first song is called Old Note. The scenic mystical video of her awandering on some rural road singing this is majestic. I said to my mother that she sounds like the voice of Ireland. Then I said she sounds like an ancient wise crone. But my mother then said she sounds enchantingly like a very small child. I now think she sounds like all of these and more. In Irish archaeology is a tripple faced Goddess. Many stone carvings of her have been discovered. There is resonance with this tripple voice.
Ireland is much changed nowadays
😊😊love 😊0
There's nobody out there like Lisa. So happy to see her on TD
First time hearing her and I'm now a fan for life. Just amazing!
On All Songs Considered she tells a haunting story of the writing of Old Note, and the living belief in Ireland of spirits and fairies among the living. There's a recording of her 4 year old niece on the album version where she says "The people say no more songs" and Lisa asks "What people" and her niece replies "The people on the stairs." Goosebumps every time.
I first heard Lisa's music on Peaky Blinders. Her voice is amazing.
Me too. Looked her up that night of the finale, listened to all of her music over the next few days, and I've listened to it pretty much daily ever since.
I've been following Lisa's career for years and have been lucky enough to see her lots of times here in Ireland 🍀
I'm so delighted to see all of the comments on here saying it's people's first time hearing and loving her music.
Go on you fecking good thing Lisa ❤ Such deserved success 🌼
Lovely that Tiny Desk platformed our beure 🎉
First time hearing here...my heart...I can't even explain. Absolutely amazing. Good wishes to you.
Can remember seeing Lisa at the Button Factory in Dubs back in 2010...great artist ...glad to see her on Tiny Desk...well deserved...and a right character in Bewleys...go girl!
Traditional Irish folk at its best. Lisa's music is original, haunting and deeply personal.
She needs to come to Asheville
This is not traditional folk. It's folk, but far from traditional
Delia Murphy did it originally
@@TerriblyNice_Not Look out, everyone. Make way for the contrarian.
Very happy to see Lisa O'Neill on Tiny Desk. Thanks for putting this together Bob and crew!
Lisa helps me understand indigeneity and the mesmerizing power of connection to place. How we are lost and wandering without it, and possibly corrupted. I’ve had Old Note literally on loop for two weeks now. This concert only deepens my awe of her.
Beautiful. Dulcimer is blowing me away.
I purchased "All of this is chance" on Vinyl off the back of hearing "old note" on the radio......its mesmarising, a stunning record, a masterpiece.....this is the TIny Desk Concert I have been waiting for!!
Loved that. I get so drawn in to the loop of Lisa listening to herself, as if she's finding her way through the world by singing into the space around her
First time hearing Lisa.
Such a unique character and voice.
I think I like her music. ❤❤❤❤
Never heard this before. Humbly saying my knowledge of music is ever developing. Tiny Desk brings my mind and soul to places I've never been. The most valuable subscription I have on CZcams I think. Thank you from Suriname!
one of the more impressive voices out there, so glad to see her here
Off to see her tonight in Sunderland - she draws from an old and deep well which is what takes me there.
I've spent the whole morning teary eyed listening to this magic!
Great to see Tiny Desk having such a wide range of great music. Superb sound engineering as always.
Been doing the Wild Atlantic Way on the bike...10 days circumnavigating Ireland actually over the 10 days, so had the COVID Concert downloaded especially for the wilder parts of the ride, and it absolutely made for a deeper epic ride. When that wind whips across the boglands, add to that the sheep just doing their own thing under the moody clouds, and Lisa fills your helmet with that energy & soul, born from the beautiful wild country that is Ireland...priceless 🙏
I saw Lisa and band on the eve of the pandemic and nothing has been the same since but her music has been with me almost every day. I have been waiting for this NPR and loved every moment. Goodnight world is such a beautiful song and a great closer. Thank you NPR and Lisa O’Neill
Thanks for finally sharing this incredible Artist’s TDC. This is my favorite album of the year, first half. Along with Lankum, Ye Vagabonds and The Mary Wallopers, Traditional Music in Ireland is in safe hands moving forward.
Oh thank you for featuring a favorite of mine !
If you are discoring her, go check other videos on here, she is sublime.
Im in Newfoundland - Canada’s Ireland. I just cant get enuff of you ever since I heard “Blackbird” on Peaky Blinders. You and your band are just fantastic! ❤
Beautiful, she is a force. Love from South Africa
She has me spellbound this wonderful artist, not sure if it’s her voice, the stories, the lyrics or the music maybe it’s a combination of all. Thanks Lisa for your music, you are awesome!
Rock the Machine changed my life.
Yes. I cannot listen to that song or watch that video without tearing up.
We need more voices like this, every word coming from the soul...
Been waiting for this one for a while! Was lucky to see Lisa perform a few months back - one of the most haunting live shows I've seen. Amazing writer, performer and an absolute character! Go see her perform if you get the chance! Doing another Irish tour in October.
love everything Lisa does. looking forward to seen her in the Rebel County of Cork in early October.
Good Night sounds like a lullaby that's been sung for hundreds of years.
I play Lisa's song 'Goodnight World' to my little 6 month old girl every night as I rock her to sleep and we both love it..fair play Lisa..keep creating..your music is magic
Had to re work my brains pathways for this, been listening to a lot of underground hip hop, hard house, & jazz, so for me this is another sphere entirely.
always so beautiful. the queen ❤ I was so touched when I first heard "rock the machine" and can't stop listening to you
So glad to see Lisa showing her obvious talent in the US....Her stubborn use of her local Cavan accent is admirable and is so effective in illuminating her brilliant lyrics.....
Why “stubborn”? It’s how she speaks.
God, what a masterpiece this song "Old Note" is!
For sure.
@@outoforbit- Had the pleasure of meeting her twice, such a genuine person.
@@mrsinn2642 I'm from the same region of Ireland as her, but living in UK. Her music is authentic and untouched by today's world. I'm not surprised that you would find her to be a genuine person.
I was waiting for this TD so bad, love lisa, her voice is haunting, like an ancient river flowing through, channeling timeless music with the power of Irish tradition. Sending love and admiration ❤
Wow! Lisa O'Neill and band show a mix of Iris Dement and the magic of drone harmonies. Not surprising Lisa was picked to sing the Shawn MacGowan tribute "Fairy Tails of New York"at his going away funeral. She's the real thing.
Shane's funeral make me discovery Lisa . Im from Argentina
Old note just blew my mind, the expression of raw feeling, universal and pre historic, linked to everything in nature, even the atoms that we all share.
CZcams recommended this to me after watching Lisa and Glen Hansard perform Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan's funeral. And this? This is WILD, and I mean that as in feral. Old Note is *incredible.* I love her. New fan.
[edit: meant to mention how delighted I was to spot Joe Doyle! man I miss the Frames.]
Brilliant! Singing ‘on the cusp of change’ … enticing dance of the Irish musicians and poets 👏🏼☘️👏🏼☘️
Saw Lisa with my wife in Newport earlier this year. Was just tremendous. Our favorite
Lisa came to me like a gift that i needed so badly at the time
Wonderful!
Fantastic!!!
Oh Lisa! How you move my heart! What a joy to find you here :) with love! - a fellow sensitive soul.
Great feelings of raw music. Never heard Lisa before. Congrats to the band.
"Old Note" brings to mind whales communicating under water or fungi communicating under ground or maybe even humans communicating through learned experience over generations of interaction with nature. Deeply resonant. Very moving. Very cool.
Saw her twice as a warm-up to Pulp in Hammersmith in July 2023. What an uplifting surprise.
I really like it, un gusto haber escuchado esta pieza musical. Un abrazo, salud y libertad para todo el mundo. De un español viviendo en Magallanes, Chile.❤
she just feeeels and externalizes that feeling in music..she IS music and her band (s) reflect the same.Hup Hup an cheoil Go brách agus GRMA Lovely Lisa. 🐝🐝🌳🍀
Just saw Lisa last night when she opened for Swell Season in Atlanta, and she was fantastic. A great songwriter and live performer
The raw pleasure of playing and immersion in the song Silver Seed is bewitching. her "woo" and smile before going into that slow dance part is what I'm talking about @10:25 "who taught me how to grieve, sing like sparrow, dont dream narrow and know about the silver seed WOO :D"
Had the privilege to see Lisa and the band at a tiny theatre on the edge of the sea in Lyme Regis a few weeks ago. The music was as memorable, haunting and sublime as we expected. What we hadn’t anticipated was quite how relaxed and funny Lisa was when talking to the audience between numbers. She had us all absolutely spellbound - it was one of those concerts that stays with you forever. Hope to see her again one day..
Lisa your voice draws me out of myself, to a different world, so full of passion it almost hurts.Thanks.
those old world blues brother, feel it deeply too
My heart cracked open like a seed germinating and her sound nourished my Irish roots. Home is deep inside me
Been waiting for this one! She's so raw and fantastic
Great band and a magical singer. With my morning coffee, wonderful sounds were brought to us again from the almost infinite sound sung by The Tiny Desk. Thanks!
She and band played in DC the day after this. A great and lovely concert at The Pie Shop. She talked about having learned abt Mother Jones -- the Irish immigrant who lost so much but came to fight for others fearlessly. LO is a gem.
She's amazing when she sings and truly amazing when she speaks.
Really enjoyed a fresh sound of your beautiful music. TY!! "Cash for Charles"... appropriate! Love your sense of humor.
This woman is pure gold. I love her so very very much.
The first months after my mum passed away, I used to listen a lot to Lisa O'Neill. Every time I miss my mum, Lisa just brings me back the warmth and safe feeling my mum used to give me.
Love Lisa's stuff, and she's a relation of mine. Double bonus! :)
Old Note. The music, the instruments, the pace, the lyrics, the voice is a harmonious masterpiece on a midnight walk home along the bushy narrow roads in County Cavan, the peace we feel in the lonesome beauty of our exile here.
Wonderful! First saw Lisa a long time ago during Atlantic Sessions in Kiwi's old place on Causeway St, Portrush. I was one of a dozen people there for the music with most people after pizza. I bought her first album from her and rediscovered it during lockdown. Bought another equally good album. First heard Old Note of Iggy's 6 Music show and bought that album too. Great to see her getting some of the recognition she deserves.
Wonderful Lisa
love the dulcimer! Lisa is mining the same territory as the Carter Family here, with a huge Irish twist.. great stuff
Thank you algorithm. The line at 2.24 just got me to my core. And then it just got better. Astounding. Imagine the idea of an indigenous voice.Noone ever told me that that was a thing.
Congratulations my friend ❤...
Love it ❤️🛸😘
I saw you in Vicar Street recently... x
It was so Gorgeous ❤
So haunting ❤
I am proud of you and the magical music you are sharing ✨️ 💛 💜
Thank you for sharing, Sister XOXO
We are blessed to be treated by your generous sharing ❤
Yes!!!✊🇮🇪
Oh Lisa you are so fabulously beautiful and speak to souls, bless your precious soul
Seeing her on Sunday in Amsterdam. Cannot very wait!
Beautiful. Just beautiful. Old Note is a heartbreaker.
I can not come to quantify the feeling of listening to my beloved Lisa…
Amazing, i like her spirit
Great to see Lisa on this. I saw her in a small venue a few months back and she was amazing!
One of my favorite....NPR/ Tiny desks...
I feel this song in the deepest parts of my soul, it brought things it brought tears, it brought joy, it brought understanding....
What a unique talent , great future ahead of her
Love this!
beautiful!!!
Wow! You nailed it again. I love your music 😎🙏🏼
By far my favourite musical discovery of the pandemic. It's been amazing to see her fame spreading over the last year or so, first with Peaky Blinders and then with All of This is Chance. It's well past time for a North American tour!
How lovely! I didn't know her, it was a formidable surprise!
Powerful
what a treat, stumble and smile x
Magical. Truly magnificent.
She’s an acquired taste, that I’m acquiring!
You must listen at least twice to “get it!”