Rún is an Irish word that “can mean secret, mystery, or love, or perhaps some elusive combination of the three”.
Rún is a band made up on producer and musician Rían Trench (Crispy Jason / Solar Bears / Panikatax) Jim Henson voice, sound and visual artist Tara Baoth Mooney, and Diarmuid MacDiarmada (The Jimmy Cake, Nurse With Wound , The Tycho Brahe, brother of Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada) who will release a debut album on August 22nd this year on Rocket Recordings – with a sound that draws from psychedelia, drone rock and experimental heaviness.
‘Terror Moon’ is the band’s first single, a video of which is below with the full version clocking in at 8 minutes.
“Terror Moon confronts us with the image of the unblinking eye of a dead horse, juxtaposed with oranges rotting on the branches of the groves in Jaffa after their Palestinian custodians were evicted by Israeli settlers” the band say. “The song is a reflection on the inhuman treatment routinely inflicted on both human and non-human entities.” ‘
The album was recorded in The Meadows, the studio where Trench has produced many Irish albums from the likes of Skinner, Saint Sister, Melts).
William Basinski, Pauline Oliveros, Om, Coil and The Necks are cited as inspirations with the band saying improv is key to the music:
“When we get together to work, we often engineer particular atmospheres in order to bring ourselves to what we call the ‘deep’ place, this is the ‘finding’ phase of the process, where ideas come together with whatever stuff is in the ether”.
“Suffice to say that there was a variety of sacred musics, acid-folk, cosmic jazz, stoner / sludge-metal, avant- garde composers and a hint of R&B being ground up and baked in with everything else in our wonky witches’ kitchen.”
“Beyond the larger themes we explore, the work is often inspired by dreams, synchronicities, and other uncanny influences found in every-day life,” says MacDiarmada.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
