Luka Bloom is squaring the musical circle in West Cork

Luka Bloom’s new album was recorded at Lettercollum House in Timoleague, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan

In a way, Frugalisto, Luka Bloom’s latest album, has been 45 years in the making.

Its closing track, ‘Wave Up To The Shore’, recorded by his brother Christy Moore on his 1976 self-titled ‘Black Album’, was the first track Bloom wrote, in 1971, that he decided “wasn’t shit”.