In this podcast, Branwen Kavanagh talks to Martin Cook about mixing art forms, launching a new project, and how she came to be playing a petrol can – and she plays some songs.
Until recently, Dublin-born, Clare-raised Branwen Kavanagh was best know as half of Twin Headed Wolf – the other head being her twin sister Julie.
These days, she is simply Branwen. She is soon to release a new record, which also features violinist Nicholas Cooper and clarinetist Deirdre O’Leary.
In this podcast, she talks to Martin Cook about mixing art forms, striking out with this new project, and how she came to be playing a petrol can – and she plays some songs at Marrowbone Books in The Coombe.
“I’ve found myself drawn to The Midnight Ache during the recent rainy days.”
Hopefully it’ll create something like a musical bridge between Ireland and Japan in some way, says Emmy Shigeta, whose lyrics are sung almost entirely in Japanese.
“And Johnson is a good rapper, fluid and multifaceted, ‘fresh like a two back and sides’.”
