Gleo Presents: One Leg One Eye

A project by Ian Lynch (Lankum), One Leg One Eye draws on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise, and drone.

One Leg One Eye is the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Lankum), exploring submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise, and drone, and imbued with a sense of history and myth.

Lynch is joined in live performance by score composer and veteran noise-monger George Brennan (BB84, Melodica Deathship, Cholera House).

Lynch's debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me, a slow-burning suite of five expansive songscapes, was released on Nyahh Records in 2022 and found its audience by word-of-mouth. The album is partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child. Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by uileann pipe drones and overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure a dark, mysterious, and ultimately transcendental sound.

You can listen to One Leg One Eye’s music here.

This performance forms part of Gleo, our programme of experimental and ambient music. Marking Samhain, the concert series invites the public to Ormston House to gather and listen together. The word ‘gleo’, originating from the West of Ireland, refers to the sound of the sea when it is loud and ominous, its tumult and texture akin to man-made or mechanical noise, a sound that foretells bad weather.

Gleo is a collaboration between Ormston House and Jack Brolly. It is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick Arts Office.