The Deep Hour | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: What a great song that is Hurricane by the Deep Hour, and we have joining us via WhatsApp the man behind the Deep Hour, Brian o'glanby. Let's see if we got him here, Brian, are you there.

0:11 Speaker 2: I'm here? Yeah, can you hear me? Okay?

0:13 Speaker 1: Absolutely? You sound great And yeah, I love that song. That's really incredible.

0:18 Speaker 2: Great, thank you very much.

0:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a real heartfelt song, a real beldr of a tune we think anyway, So yeah, I'm.

0:27 Speaker 2: Really glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for having me on the show. Oh.

0:30 Speaker 1: Absolutely, no, I'm excited to talk to you the track officially, it's out on the twentieth, correct February twentieth.

0:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, the twenty the February is the launch day for the song. For the track itself.

0:41 Speaker 3: Worldwide, okay, every download and every streaming platform available. So okay, we were excited about the whole concept.

0:50 Speaker 2: You know.

0:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to know more about the song itself. You know, it's got kind of almost like a cinematic vibe to it, really, the way it kind of builds, and you know, I'd like to know more about more about what it means. It's you know, I mean One of the wonderful things about UH music and lyrics is, you know, everything can kind of mean something different to each person who who hears it and may take something different from it. But I kind of get the impression that this is there's something deeper here that might not be a parent or obvious to someone who's just trying to interpret the lyrics on a surface level.

1:28 Speaker 1: So I was wondering if you could share more about what the lyrics of the track mean or or if it's talking about some some sort of specific experience.

1:38 Speaker 3: Well, absolutely, I mean, as you know yourself, music is a very expressive medium, very it's it's an artful medium, and indeed as you as you express to yourself, it's you know, you can you can be very cinematic and very visual with you know, with with text as well as the melodic, you know content of a track. Hurricane is is a very deep personal kind of message that the whole track came about and was influenced by a very deep, heavy conversation I had with with a good friend of mine.

2:20 Speaker 2: Who he seemed a bit troubled.

2:23 Speaker 3: So I was asking him, you know, come on with friends, let me know what's bothering you. And he let this whole secret out of the bag about this series of letters that he that he'd found from was written from one one family member to the to the other obviously his mother and further, you know, came above water later on. And these letters were they were, they were like basically a cry for help.

2:53 Speaker 2: And it seems that the letter and.

2:57 Speaker 3: As as the the the issue of them, stick abuse domestic violence never never sees the whole. The whole letters were like a quite for help from you know, from the other family member. Now, this obviously is a very hard hitting and you know sometimes taboo and unspoken issue you know in in households and relationships, et cetera, like that, which which will.

3:22 Speaker 2: Really affect every family member involved. You know.

3:27 Speaker 3: Now these things have been going on for years and never really it was never really spoken about until these letters were were you know, dug out and found, and which I suppose is a bit too late. It is a very very deepened and hard hitting issue. So I found within that, excuse me, within that, within that that that story that needed to be expressed in a much more artful and deeper melodic manner, as you say, cinematic, And that's that's how the the initial song came about. And that's that's what it was written about, you know, So it is it is a very deep message.

4:11 Speaker 1: You know absolutely. Now your friend who told you, well, I'm curious did he actually show you the letters or did he just tell you about them?

4:21 Speaker 3: He had them with him when when we when we had the conversation, but he couldn't find it within himself to to to drag.

4:28 Speaker 2: Them out of the envelope, drag him out of his pocket.

4:30 Speaker 3: You know, I did prompt that, but obviously that's something so deep, so personal, and I think it was it was very personal for him to share the story initially, so I didn't think, you want, I didn't actually see the letters, so did you know kind of kept them to himself, you know, sure?

4:45 Speaker 1: And then did you tell him that you were going to write a song about this or And I'm curious too, obviously, I mean, I assume he's heard.

4:53 Speaker 3: It, right, Yeah, obviously, with something so as deep as personal as that, I kind kind of you know, I searched within him, you know, I asked, you know, I asked for his blessing basically, if if, if, if he wouldn't mind me actually, you know, producing a song with that issue in mind.

5:15 Speaker 2: You know.

5:16 Speaker 3: Obviously you know that the names are are hidden to to protect the innocence that kind of way. So yeah, I I you know, I was I was looking look for a bit of acknowledgement from from my friend, you know that they didn't mind me doing this, you know, so yeah, he knew about it, you know.

5:36 Speaker 1: And then what was his uh when he heard it, I mean, what what was his reaction?

5:42 Speaker 2: Tears?

5:45 Speaker 3: And initially he was, yeah, tears, and then obviously it was a bit of hugging down and you know, it was a bit of soul searching to you know, to actually write the song and pinpoint the melody parts of it to get the message over in an aulln aggressive manner like it's almost sweet, you know, as you said, cinematic. You know, there's enough aggression in issues like this without you know, some kind of a hard hitting heavy metal zone back up that kind of violence, you know. But no, there was there was There was tears, and there was a few hogs, and there was a lot of thank yous, and and it was yeah, it pretty hard.

6:29 Speaker 1: You know, I feel like, and this is something that comes up a lot on the show as we talk about taking terrible things, you know, traumas and tragedies and all of it, all the things that happen in life that are negative and creating something from that that is positive. And you know, when you when you take something negative and you create art, whether it be music or visual art or whatever, it is anything that you can you know, take and then create something that not only helps helps you if it's thing that happened to you, and then you're using it as almost a sort of therapy, right to work through it, to create something, but also has the effect of helping other people who can then connect with that.

7:09 Speaker 1: You know, other people who might hear the song or who might hear this conversation or other conversations that you've had about the song, and then they can they can kind of get get that same thing out of it and maybe it helps them in some way. And as you mentioned too, this is such an unfortunately, such a common problem domestic violence, and so this is this is pretty relatable stuff for a lot of people. But but I think that anytime you can take from that, you know, you can create something that is positive and put something out into the world that is positive as a result of it.

7:42 Speaker 1: It's almost like a like transferring that energy a little bit from negative to positive. And so I think it's great and I think, like I said, I mean, the song itself is absolutely incredible. And I did want to ask you too about a couple of the people who are on the track with you, because you've got a couple of of hetty or maybe more than a couple, I'm not sure, but some heavy hitters here who who helped you record this? Correct?

8:06 Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, Now getting back to what you know what you what you said there a second ago.

8:13 Speaker 2: The you know, the message in there is.

8:17 Speaker 3: It had and I felt that it had to be you know, portrayed in a positive manner.

8:23 Speaker 2: Hence the you know, the melody of the song itself.

8:26 Speaker 3: You know, there's no kind of miners in there, and it's all kind of in a in a in a.

8:30 Speaker 2: An uplifting key.

8:33 Speaker 3: So yeah, the art and music has a way of delivering something that you can you know, you'll be a bit shy, are a bit find.

8:43 Speaker 2: It very difficult to speak about. It's portrayed.

8:47 Speaker 3: You know, these issues are portrayed in this song. And now I purposely didn't resolve the song. The song doesn't have any answers. The song is pointing out it's a voice, you know, it's the point out the issues and and getting that slamming that home to a lot of people and prompting them to talk about it themselves, really, you know. And so yeah, music and art has a way of it always finds a way of.

9:13 Speaker 2: Doing that, which is beautiful.

9:15 Speaker 3: And every you embark on something like this, it's unpredictable where it's going to go, and that that's a fascination and and also a drive, you know, an inspiration drive to keep you going.

9:30 Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, we we during production on this song. And thank you by the way, for the for the for the huge compliments for that map. That really really means a lot to me.

9:43 Speaker 1: Than you Absolutely great, great song.

9:46 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. That's great.

9:47 Speaker 3: You know, it's really great to hear that, you know, because I mean, this song is it's it's the worldwide debut and I've I've had, you know, only a few reactions about the song, you know, so so hearing that from the likes of yourself is to me is mind blowing.

10:05 Speaker 2: But touching on what you said as well about the you.

10:08 Speaker 3: Know, the the guys that that played on the record and on the album with me. The album is coming out sometime we think in the summer. This particular track was the first one that the producer Wayne.

10:25 Speaker 2: Sheehy H myself. We we we got the demo down of it.

10:30 Speaker 3: I mean we're thinking, well, this needs it needs something very very strong. Didn't particularly we didn't want particularly looking for any anyone, you know.

10:43 Speaker 2: To to to to achieve that. We're looking for a particular sound, particular style.

10:50 Speaker 3: Now. Jerry Lennard is a good friend of Wayne, my producer, and we've all you know, worked in the studio since together.

10:59 Speaker 3: Jerry lenn It is the guy that you hear with with these ghostly guitar lines, you know almost at the real you know, they're they're really beautiful and bring a real gorgeous if.

11:13 Speaker 2: You know, kind of.

11:16 Speaker 3: I could have put it now, it's almost levitation.

11:19 Speaker 2: That you feel when you when you're listening to it.

11:21 Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's a really that's a good way of putting it. You know, I wouldn't have thought of that, but uh, but yeah, you're right now that you use that word, that is that is perfect levitation.

11:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's the melodic the melodic path. Jerry took when we presented this song to him and Jerry.

11:43 Speaker 2: He's a great characters. He's a real, real good guy.

11:46 Speaker 3: And I was absolutely moon when he agreed after left and listening to the demo of the track and he said, yeah, what a great track lads. You know I want to be involved, you know. So I was bowled over. I couldn't you know. It's it was a bit hard for me to to actually actually digest that and accept it.

12:03 Speaker 2: But once we got working on it.

12:06 Speaker 3: We we all realized at the time what it was going to what was going to happen here, you know, with this track. And now Jerry for for your listeners out there, Jerry is his background. He was David Bowie's musical director and guitar player, guitarist and co writer I believe on some some tracks for I think about the bones of about twenty years he was with with David Bowie touring and recording and you know, his musical partner there for for so long.

12:37 Speaker 1: Yeah.

12:38 Speaker 3: Oh, to have that integrity and they have that depth on on my records, you know, on my album and this this track in particular to me, was yeah, the greatest accolade I could ever have musically I could ever achieve, you know, so delighted with that. So not only Jerry, but we presented the track again to to Rob him alone or Robbie's fantastic, warm, floating baselines, you know, and Robbie Malone has been a co writer and musical partner with David Gray again for over twenty five years. So to have the caliber of these musicians on on my track was, you know, it just it.

13:27 Speaker 3: It took me to a different realm, Matt, you know, so it's very emotional when we when we find doing the final mix on the track.

13:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, Producer Wayne Wayne p.

13:37 Speaker 3: She this is all recorded in his his fantastic studios, Ocean Studios, Ireland. That's right down on the on the southern tip of Ireland in County Cork, next up New York, that.

13:51 Speaker 2: That kind of way.

13:51 Speaker 3: So it's it's a very very open space and wide open for creativity and you know, no distractions whatsoever. And this whole, the whole album, the whole you know, record has created in that in that you know, that product production space in in Wayne's studio. And Wayne has a beautiful history He's worked with with some of the biggest artists on the planet, you know, Like I've just mentioned Jerry and Robbie there, but Wayne has also worked with the Hot House Flowers.

14:23 Speaker 2: And Ronnie Wood.

14:25 Speaker 3: He was Ronnie Woods drummer on on few of Ronnie's albums. They're great friends, you know. So Cactus World News back in the eighties, and and countless countless.

14:37 Speaker 2: You know artists that that that that Wayne's worked with.

14:41 Speaker 3: So he brought that wealth and and all that that that beauty and depth of production value. Yeah, the old record, you know, so delighted, absolutely delighted.

14:53 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:53 Speaker 1: Now, now, did Wayne also produce the one, the first single?

14:58 Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, Wayneane produced every track on the album.

15:02 Speaker 2: It's the albums, it's ten tracks.

15:05 Speaker 3: At the moment, we're working on another one, another track because the album hasn't been released yet. We're still toying with the idea of putting maybe one, maybe two tracks on there. So but yes, Wayne, Wayne produced every every track on the album, and he did produce the one you know, so sorry, yeah.

15:25 Speaker 1: Oh, I was just gonna say that's a great track too. We're actually going to play that at the end of our conversation. I kind of bookend the segment. But yeah, that's that's another really great song.

15:34 Speaker 2: Oh wow, thank you very much. Let's yeah, keep these compliments coming all over them.

15:38 Speaker 1: You know, well, you know I'm of Irish descent, so you know we have to we have to unite.

15:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hold hands and jump up and down in the air. That's great.

15:51 Speaker 1: But yeah, the one, uh you You've got a lot of success with that, right is this? Was it number one on the Irish iTunes Rock and Maine charts? Is that correct?

16:00 Speaker 2: Yes? It was.

16:01 Speaker 3: Actually it was number one on the main Irish iTunes charts, unfortunately, edging Taylor Swift from the top position, which I was kind of proud about. You know, I thought it was very funny, brilliant, and yes it was number one for I think the week. And you know, I kept hopping over when I was when I was looking at these charts, I kept hopping over through the different scales and different genres actually of of the iTunes and and and.

16:35 Speaker 2: Normal usual indigenous charts, you know, and.

16:40 Speaker 3: I looked and it was, Yeah, it was number one on the rock charts as well, and you know, it stayed there for such a long time.

16:47 Speaker 2: It was great.

16:48 Speaker 3: It's great to have that success. Huge surprise for me. You know, because I mean I was up against some of the biggest artistans.

16:54 Speaker 2: On the planet. Yeah. And then the next thing, I got a phone call from from friends of.

17:00 Speaker 3: Mine in Amsterdam, so hey, you number two in in in the Netherlands.

17:06 Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, what's happening here? You know?

17:09 Speaker 3: That's fantastic, absolutely, And yeah, I'm hoping to hoping to generate the same success with with Hurricane.

17:19 Speaker 1: And then can you talk to you a little bit about the one about you know what, what's kind of the message behind that. It's kind of got a vibe about you know, unity and change and so forth. But I mean, am I right about that? Am I interpreting that correctly?

17:31 Speaker 2: Yes? Absolutely?

17:32 Speaker 3: The one was written again as a as a as a a prayer.

17:37 Speaker 2: For hope and unity.

17:40 Speaker 3: I suppose in a bit of a fractured world at the moment where leadership seems to be a bit of a shadow that people are avoiding, and it's it's kind of a search for a positive, good, forward thinking, sincere leader, you know, you know, which I suppose politically, which I try to keep away from politics in my music because it's too aidd and too niche, you know. But but we do need positive leadership. And this is a it's it's almost a prayer. It's almost written as a prayer, but it is. It's a cry for hope and unity.

18:21 Speaker 3: And you know, let's let's let's take let's take each other and take each other into the future with a great with a great leader. And it's a question as well, you know, and the question is who is the one?

18:35 Speaker 2: Who will be the one? Are you going to be the one? Am I going to be the one to save the world? You know?

18:41 Speaker 3: And that's basically the message in the song there. You know, it could be could be anyone, It could be anyone.

18:48 Speaker 2: You know.

18:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, we we will play that in a few minutes. I do want to ask you too about the meaning of and I'm sure you this is a question you probably get tired of answering. This country asked this question all the time. But the meaning of the Deep Hour? What?

19:04 Speaker 2: What?

19:04 Speaker 1: Where does the name of the Deep Hour come from?

19:07 Speaker 3: The Deep Hour is somewhere between an angelic feeling and catatonia.

19:14 Speaker 2: That explains it.

19:15 Speaker 3: You know, now, when I when I say this, I think you'll understand this, man, you know, with your your history of you know, hypnotherapy, et cetera. But the deep hour is a state of mind that you have no control over. And this happens in the middle of the night, when you're in the depths of your sleep. And that's when when when dreaming, the you know, the the the the the art of dreaming comes in la. Now you read the deepest of your sleep. You know, this doesn't last, This condition doesn't last all night.

19:54 Speaker 3: It probably lasts about an hour.

19:56 Speaker 2: And that's that is the state of mind that I want this music to to to create.

20:04 Speaker 3: Within the for the listener, you know, for the consumer, Yes, it's basically like nearly a catatonic state of you know, dream world, but.

20:15 Speaker 2: Great dreams, you know, nice dreams. So that's where that's the name of the deep.

20:20 Speaker 3: That's where that comes from, is the deepest hour in the night where you touch upon your dream dream scenes really you.

20:28 Speaker 1: Know, okay, okay, very good. Yes. And then so the album through your Eyes, do you have because I know you said you've got another track that you're going to be adding to it, do you have any kind of an eta on one that might be I know, sometime in twenty twenty six, I assume.

20:45 Speaker 2: It will be. Yeah, we.

20:48 Speaker 3: The plan is is is releasing in kind of calculated increments, you know, So the one late last year because I really wanted to drop a single in twenty twenty five, and obviously the Hurricane now and I'm progressing with with pr and you know, radio and awareness of these tracks. So the next track to come out after that will be These Are My Streets. Let's track all These Are My Streets, which will be coming out the start of April. So I wanted three or four singles to be released from the album before I actually drop drop the album, you know, getting back to your question, I think after the fourth single, which will probably be May, the album should come out, so it'll be early summer.

21:41 Speaker 3: I think Used to Arrival will be early summer hopefully fingers crossed.

21:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Well, well, we'll certainly have you back on you know, to to talk about it when when you're ready and everything, because like I said, I mean, you know, obviously we've only heard these Well we're gonna play with the one in just a moment, but but these two songs are so great, so I can't wait to hear the rest of it. I think it's going to be really, really good. And you know what, I really I really like your approach to songwriting and the messaging and all of it I think is great.

22:11 Speaker 1: So and again, the new single The Hurricane will be out of course February twentieth, just in a few days. And love that such a great track. I'm very honored that we got to do the radio premiere of it here on the show. But Brian, this has been wonderful. Where for our listeners, where should they go? Where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing with the Deep Hower.

22:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, please follow me on Facebook, the Deep Hower on Facebook, Instagram obviously the same, the Deep Hower and my website.

22:46 Speaker 2: Every little nugget.

22:48 Speaker 3: Of information that I'm releasing will be up on my websites, which.

22:52 Speaker 2: Is the deepower dot com.

22:54 Speaker 1: Oh perfect.

22:56 Speaker 2: So the'll be new releases.

22:57 Speaker 3: Eventually, merch and you know, gig dates, two dates if you know, there's no there's no two dates as such yet because we're still busy with the pr and the launching of a few tracks to get a bit of a bit more meat on the bone, you know, get something out there for the you know, for the valid listeners and the valid.

23:17 Speaker 2: Fan base. So yeah, it's an exciting time.

23:21 Speaker 3: It's it's it's great, you know, and it's it's it's brought in twenty twenty six on a real high and a real positive note for me.

23:29 Speaker 2: You know, the whole team actually behind me, the production.

23:32 Speaker 3: Team, the you know, the musicians involved and the PR team and every everybody involved.

23:39 Speaker 2: It's it's fabulous, so.

23:42 Speaker 1: Fantastic. You got you got a lot of good people around you. That's that's for sure, and uh, that is outstanding. Brian. We will let you go. We're gonna hit this, uh this track. We're gonna play the one, the first single from from this project, The Deep Hour. But Brian o'glan by, thank you so much, and like I said, we will have you back and I really love talking to you today. Thank you so much for joining us.

24:03 Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you very much.

24:05 Speaker 3: Thanks Mattin and all your production team there and all your listeners.

24:08 Speaker 2: Thank you very much. The Deep Hower, The Deep Hower.

24:11 Speaker 1: All right, Brian, thank you, take care less.

24:13 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, boy bye bye.

24:15 Speaker 1: All right. That is Brian og Brian o'clanby from The Deep Hower. Sorry I'm tripping on my still struggling with my voice a little bit, but well Wow, he's great to talk to you. I really enjoyed that conversation a lot. And I love the new single, the Hurricane, which came out, which will be coming out on February twentieth, But the One is the first single from the album, and let's give this a spin. This is the one, and this is the Deep Hour.