one two // jenna & mairi
released april 2017
"The chemistry between Moynihan & Chaimbeul is a tangible, palpable entity at the heart of their collaboration, making for as natural a sound as I have yet heard in contemporary, instrumental acoustic music, and a classic example of how wonders can transpire when you find ‘your people.’
- David Morrison, Folk Radio UK
"The fiddle-harp duo of Jenna Moynihan and Mairi Chaimbeul represents the best of today’s traditional music: innovative, sensitive and hinging on the intimate interplay between expert instrumentalists"
- amelia mason, The ARTery, WBUR
"There is tension and beauty and jubilee that build and flow from each and every note on this record. ...this is music that is to be felt and taken into your heart ... something of pure magic"
- david carroll, red line roots
Dear Sienna // Aerialists
released january 10th 2020
“Dear Sienna reinvents the traditional folk wheel with a tasty offering of 11 polyrhythmic, jazzy, atmospheric and progressive tracks”
-scott Roos, exclaim CA
"a masterfully performed collection of intriguing, often haunting material”
-david Morrison, Folk Radio UK
"a wondrous Canadian album filled with acoustic magic”
-bill golembeski, folking.com
Group manoeuvre // Aerialists
released September 19th 2017
"Group Manoeuvre is a dazzling display of stellar musicianship, inventive arrangements, and genre-melding music inhabiting a world of its own... enchants, beguiles and thrills from the first note to the last"
-David Morrison, folk radio uk
"genre bending, rule defying, brain shattering collection of wildly astute purveyors of sound ... cunning, exhilarating and at times almost emotionally overwhelming"
-maddy cristall, CBc
"Entire worlds seem travelled... there is a sense of urgency, lightheartedness, menace, and stillness ... a feat of exploration and effort that you don’t want to miss."
-elizabeth andrews, spill magazine
quilting // by quilting
released october 7 2022
Telephone Explosion records is proud to be releasing the mesmerizing debut LP by Nova Scotia’s Quilting on October 7, 2022. The album is a quietly stunning collection of pastoral ambience dotted with moments of tension that reflects the maritime environment in which it was created, inadvertently paying homage to the light and darkness of rural life.
Co-founded by Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt, the quartet is comprised of a diverse and accomplished collection of musicians including renowned folk guitarist Kim Barlow, distinguished Isle Of Skye harpist Màiri Chaimbeul, and Sahara Nasr, a noted songwriter and player of the rare Indian Sarangi, who came together when he moved back to his home province in 2019 after a lengthy stay in Toronto.
The LP, which features hand-calligraphed cover art from Upstate New York-based artist and musician Sarah Le Puerta, features five songs all recorded live off-the-floor in a single live performance. Moods range from reflective to unsettled, and even at its loudest parts a sense of intimacy persists.
Màiri’s albums:
Aerialists - Dear Sienna
jenna moynihan & mairi chaimbeul - one two
aerialists - group manoeuvre
Jenna Moynihan & Mairi Chaimbeul - Back and Forth
Aerialists - Self-titled
quilting - self-titled (Telephone Explosion Records)
and she appears on albums including:
Jenna Moynihan - Woven
Eleanor Buckland - You Don’t Have To Know
Kris Delmhorst - long day in the milky way
Bard’s Tale IV Soundtrack (Ged Grimes)
dave godowsky - cuts
Corporate Punk - of course! (Wendy)
Julie Vallimont - Dark Sky, Bright stars
Ellis Paul - The Storyteller’s Suitcase
Javier Limon - Refugio Del Sonido
Alberto Bello & Oriol Saña - Boston Bridges
Adrianna Ciccone - The Back of Winter
Fiona J MacKenzie - Archipelago
David Lyon - Faithful
Macanta - Cron
TMSA Young Trad musicians of the year 2010
TMSA Young Trad musicians of the year 2011