Sandra O'Neill

A glimpse into the forthcoming debut solo album from Alias Grace / A Marble Calm singer Sandra O’Neill, ‘Scattering’ is an atmospheric blend of layered guitars and haunting harmonies reminiscent of Joni Mitchell and Beth Gibbons.

File Size: 5.7 MB.

Featuring hauntingly melancholy songs adorned with constantly shifting atmospheric arrangements, Alias Grace's second album 'Storm Blue Evening' develops further the intimate and beguiling nature of their charmed debut album and captures perfectly the maturing writing style of Irish singer-songwriter Sandra O'Neill and Samuel Smiles' pianist Peter Chilvers. The album also features cameo appearances from Rob Jackson, Myke Clifford, Mike Bearpark and Tim Bowness.

Debut album of shimmering loveliness and lovely shimmering from Irish singer-songwriter Sandra O'Neill and multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers (Samuel Smiles, Henry Fool).

A loose collective centred around the nucleus of Peter Chilvers and reclusive marimba/vibraphone virtuoso Jon Hart, A Marble Calm's debut release is an ambitious collection combining textural instrumentals and drifting songscapes. Featuring Burning Shed regulars Tim Bowness, Sandra O'Neill and Theo Travis and clocking in at 74 minutes long, the album distinctively blends influences from Contemporary Classical (Gorecki/Pärt), ECM Jazz, Sigur Rós and the ambient songwriting of Sylvian, Eno and No-Man.

"Sandra O'Neill's singing on Gillian Welch's "I Dream a Highway" is heart-meltingly beautiful. I think this song deserves a new category - something like 'future country'. More, soon, please!" - Brian Eno