Exciting News: Our New Album Hinterland is Coming + Kickstarter Launch

Hello everyone, it’s Gerry here. I’m excited to share that Lisa Knapp and I are releasing our new album, Hinterland, on 6th March 2025. We’ll be launching the album at World Heart Beat in Embassy Gardens, London, and then hitting the road for a few UK shows. It’s been a long time coming, and we can’t wait for you to hear it.

Lisa and I have always worked closely together—I've produced all her albums, and as many of you know, we’re also partners in life! Hinterland feels like the next step in our musical journey, mixing the old and new in a way that feels fresh while staying rooted in folk traditions.

We’ve just released our first single, Hawk & Crow, and we’re thrilled for you to hear it. It’s a haunting track with unsettling harmonies and natural percussion that draws you into a mysterious world of birds. It’s a perfect glimpse into the sound and themes of the album.

The full album is a mix of instrumental tunes and songs inspired by nature, history, and the strange spaces in between. Tracks like Train Song, Starr Carr, and Long Lankin explore the blend of the natural and supernatural.

We’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to help bring Hinterland to life. If you’d like to support us, check out the campaign, where you can pre-order the album, access exclusive content, and more. Your support means the world to us as we bring this project to completion.

You can find our Kickstarter campaign here.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2012509620/lisa-knapp-gerry-diver-brand-new-duo-album-hinterland

Thank you so much for your continued support, and please check out Hawk & Crow—more to come soon!

Gerry

Recording with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour

Had a great recording session last week with David Gilmour at his studio. I played fiddle… had lots of fun. Details to follow in due course

Pixie Movie

Recently been co scoring with David Holmes a new movie called ‘Pixie.’ Set in the west of Ireland the movie stars Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, Colm Meaney and Alec Baldwin. Read all about it here!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/olivia-cooke-ben-hardy-alec-baldwin-team-comedy-thriller-pixie-1232940



Collaboration with David Holmes for new BBC2 Drama ‘Death and Nightingales’

I recently co-scored with David Holmes the soundtrack to ‘Death and Nightingales.’ Really enjoyed doing this - much fun was had at David’s studio in Belfast working on the series. The three parter stars Jamie Dornan, Matthew Rhys and Ann Skelly. Here’s the official blurb from BBC Media Centre! BTW - the music in the trailer below is just that - ‘trailer music’ - not the actual soundtrack that we created - will repost that later on when the programme airs.

Based on Eugene McCabe’s modern Irish classic, Death And Nightingales is a riveting story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885.

“A place where neighbours observe each other and inform, a world of spies, confessions and double dealing, where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom.

Set over a desperately tense 24-hour period, it’s Beth Winters’ (Ann Skelly) 23rd birthday - the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward (Jamie Dornan) and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy (Matthew Rhys). As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, Death And Nightingales is a powerful and gripping drama that follows a woman struggling to control her own destiny and will illuminate tensions that tear both families and nations apart”



SUBSCRIBE for more BBC highlights: https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn WATCH full programmes on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ A story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge set over 24 hours. Death and Nightingales | BBC

Speech Project Featured in Upcoming Book

Speech Project Album is to be featured in an upcoming new book by Graham Smith (Professor at The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University). The book is on ‘public oral history’ and looks at the uses and misuses of oral history across a range of media. Graham informs me that it will be featured in a chapter alongside Steve Reich’s  Come Out and Different Trains, as well as Terkel’s Working, Cipullo's Glory Denied and Little’s Soldiers Songs. The chapter will explore why memory, music and oral history fit so well together. Looking forward to it