The Breath is the acoustic duo of talented guitar player Stuart McCallum and the ethereally blessed singer Ríoghnach Connolly. Now, Ríoghnach is a noted improviser – making up lyrics as the music leads her. Not always – but incredibly ‘Let it Calm You Down’ was a totally improvised song, sung during a home town show in Manchester. Ríoghnach recalls feeling a little grumpy until she spotted her soulmate in the crowd. The song was a call to him, “the only bastard that can calm me – if we hadn’t recorded the gig, it would have been lost in the ether all together”. And that would have been a tragedy.
