It started when I got more brave. I just wanted to see if I could make something real using the colors that were in my head.

Patrick O'Laoghaire out of Dublin says of himself that he is a unfinished man ,and that it feels good to be an unfinished man. He probably means that he is always learning and that this will probably never stop. And honestly: if the mode of constant learning sounds like the music of his young projectI Have A Tribe, you wish that the likeable Irishman will never stop learning. There is something organic, spatial and associated sincerity in his pieces that is rarely found: his music is sometimes fragile, sounds like a delicate, dreamy chamber music, then it gets out of hand, gallops off, unfolds an unexpected dynamic.

In the short time in which Patrick O'Laoghaire as I Have A Tribe active, his songwriting has gained a lot of complexity! From the melancholic indie pearl "Yellow Raincoats" to more current pieces such as »Animals« A clear leap can be observed – the range of emotions that Patrick O'Laoghaire What he is now able to express has grown by several colors in a short space of time: angry, agitated sounds mix with the elegiac relaxedness of the first pieces. This is how Patrick himself sees it: he wants to turn the colors in his head outwards, his music should paint pictures. And that is what it does, sometimes in cheerful, light colors, with sweeping brush movements - but the next moment it can become restless, the brush almost tears the canvas, paints jagged edges with a lot of paint, black and red mix wildly together! I Have A Tribe brings the entire color palette to life! And just like in the visual arts, it can transcend boundaries and time, creating a communication that reaches its captivating intensity through an unfiltered expression of feelings!

The reference box spits out bands like Midlake whose folk-like instrumentation I Have A Tribe But here and there electronic elements also appear, such as the use of a synthesizer in "Calgary" reminiscent of Bowie's Berlin phase, specifically calls to mind his dark masterpiece Low! Also the musical power of Warren Ellis' The Dirty Three one is reminded in some intense moments, and Patrick's voice allows comparisons with Anthony, the queer singing wonder from New York - but somehow it's not really possible to grasp all of this ... Patrick's music is too unique to place it in a pigeonhole system. He sees himself somewhere between Anna Calvi and Alvo Pärt – but a deep orange that can suddenly hit a frozen lake makes it even more tangible.

With Rob Ellis The Dubliner, who is always smiling, dreamy and very gentle when singing, managed to put his sound vision on tape, the producer helped him to transfer the color palette. Ellis' reference list of PJ Harvey until Scott Walker has made him the right candidate for this task: with the help of Conor O'Brian of the Villagers, for the I Have A Tribe has already been able to open several times, two handfuls of great songs have been preserved! Even if music for Patrick always has something fleeting about it, tied to the moment in which it is created – for example in the song of a bird – with the EPs of I Have A Tribe something of this fleetingness has been captured, something unique has been made possible again and again. So let us hope that he will continue to learn– and that he lets us listen