Sound of Solace: Irish cello sensation Patrick Dexter on bringing his music to the world
Patrick Dexter playing one of his tunes from his cottage in Co Mayo. He's releasing his debut album.
An empty sky. A rumpled mountain flowing into a lake. And a mournful cello. Such are the ingredients that have catapulted a Mayo-based former music teacher to global prominence. And which set him on the road to releasing a collection of melancholic compositions, which, during the lockdown and in the bleary months of early parenthood, helped make sense of a strange and frightening new world.
“At first it was a huge experience and shocking to know the numbers of streams were in the million and tens of millions,” says Patrick Dexter, from his home in south Mayo, near the northern shore of Killary Harbour, as he prepares to release debut album Solace.
