I really enjoyed chatting to Matthew about the elusive ‘draíocht’ or magic, the feeling that goes into music, and the otherworldly places that it can take you. Matthew tells me about his journey to India, and his process of apprenticeship in Indian Classical music and how he found his way to a deep immersion in Irish traditional music in East Clare.

Matthew also pays a lovely tribute to Tony McMahon, a man deeply in touch with the draíocht who sadly passed away shortly before this interview.