Foggy Notions presents Rory Sweeney live at Yamamori Tengu Dublin on Friday 5th December. Tickets on sale now.

Rory Sweeney is a Dublin-based electronic artist known for raw, genre-warped approaches to sound. Equal parts Enya and Autechre, Rory uses dense production and a DIY ethos to create his post internet music. A key presence in Ireland, Rory’s work with MCs, vocalists, and visual artists has garnered extensive critical acclaim, making him a central figure in Ireland’s flourishing musical ecosystem. 

Rorys sophomore album ‘Old Earth’, already being tipped as one of the best of the year, is currently at no.18 in the Irish charts, all the more impressive when you consider it wasn’t released on Spotify or through a label. Beautiful, tense, existential and playful all at once, ‘Old Earth’ is Sweeney at his most dazzling and undefineable. The album is heavily inspired by Stone Tape Theory, which posits that ghosts, hauntings and supernatural phenomena are the result of events being imprinted into the land. Sweeney uses the memory of the land and his own personal memory to reflect on accelerating tech capitalism, hauntological non places of modern ireland, the irish otherworld and personal moments, playing with anacronism and physical sound. Old Earth is a reflection on disappearing time and memory in the information age, while trying to reckon with history and the esoteric.