When the composer, trained classical pianist, and music producer, Dubliner Louis Ryan, was a child, he remembers the first time he heard Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with clarifying ease. “I was sitting in my dad’s car, just… flabbergasted,” he smiles. “I’d never heard music like this before, and immediately started wondering, why don’t they play this on the radio the whole time?” As a teenager, Ryan rounded out his musical appreciation by joining bands, experimenting with his family’s old Blüthner, and listening to the likes of The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys on repeat. Through this work, he found himself seeking the ties that…

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