DLÙ (pronounced dloo, as in blue), an exciting quintet of young Scottish Gaels, release their debut album MOCH (as in loch) on February 25th 2022 via ARC Music. A truly remarkable album, MOCH champions the Gaelic language and culture and celebrates generations who have fought, and continue to fight, against its neglect.
DLÙ will play an album launch gig at Glasgow’s Òran Mór on Saturday February 26th 2022. Please reply for tickets.
The four founder members of DLÙ – Moilidh NicGriogair, Zach Ronan, Aidan Speirs and Andrew Grossart – first met at Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu, Glasgow’s – and the country’s – first all-Gaelic school. Aidan’s college-mate Jack Dorrian on bass completed the musical jigsaw and cemented the five-piece instrumental line-up. With the recording of their début album, they wanted the signature of their own language writ large, and enlisted another former schoolmate, Joseph McCluskey as guest vocalist on MOCH.
The band’s name DLÙ draws on the Gaelic ‘dlùth’, which means ‘closeness’. But the word also means the warp of woven cloth, the strong foundation threads through which the intricate weft threads wind in and out to create the pattern and texture of the final cloth. Likewise through the sure foundations of Zach, Moilidh and Andrew’s traditional music backgrounds, the various influences of funk, rock and pop, of classical trainings and of other progressive folk line-ups before them, the musical threads of DLÙ combine to weave a sound that is uniquely their own.
Album: MOCH
Artist: DLÙ
Label: ARC Music
Cat#: EUCD2956
Released: Friday 25th February 2022
