Day Six, the 14-minute music video featuring Caitríona singing Anakronos’ track, Amor, s’io posso uscir de’ tuoi artigli was an award winner at the 2024 Budapest Movie Awards, Stockholm Short Festival, Madrid Arthouse Film Festival and the Director Talents Movie Awards. It was a Semi-Finalist in the Berlin Short Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Global Network Awards […]
Glyn Pursglove have reviewed The Red Book of Ossory by Anakronos for MusicWeb International. “The power and impact of these performances are the product of the seriousness with which Caitríona O’Leary and her colleagues take both the story of Ledred’s fierce treatment of his innocent victims and the spirituality of his Latin verses… There isn’t […]
German magazine AUDIO has reviewed Citadel of Song by Anakronos. In “Citadel of Song”, the medieval ensemble Anakronos breathes new life into ten texts from Boccaccio’s “Decameron” with elements of fusion jazz, prog rock and contemporary classical music. With this revival of 14th century Italian love poetry, the Irish elfin-voiced singer Caitríona O’Leary confirms her […]
The Island of Saints is a new ground-breaking feature length music film by director Eric Fraad inspired by the medieval/jazz fusion ensemble Anakronos’ highly-acclaimed album, The Red Book of Ossory and its backstory. The Island of Saints oscillates between three types of scenes; music performance scenes of Anakronos performing music from The Red Book of […]
Music critic Michael Dervan have given The Red Book of Ossory by Anakronos a 5 Star review in today’s Irish Times culture section. Read the review Press quotes for The Red Book of Ossory BUY CD
Caitríona O’Leary talks to Ken Phelan of The Irish Independent about the musical collaboration that is Anakronos as they gear up for a major concert. Anakronos (Photo: Tara Slye) “Now performing with her new ensemble, Anakronos, Malahide vocalist and virtuoso Catríona O’Leary has taken her music in yet another new direction, blending medieval music with […]