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Multitalented Musician Noé Socha Shines On Solo Debut View from Inside

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November 8, 2026

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Choosing the songs for an album can reveal as much about a musician as the compositions they write themselves. With View from Inside, Noé Socha has assembled a tracklist that brings together several different strands of his musical interests, giving listeners a chance to explore both his songwriting and the material that has caught his attention over the years.

Of the album’s 14 tracks, eight are original compositions credited to Socha. They include “Kinship”, “Bike Ride”, “Drizzle”, “Cascata”, “Bossa Leonessa”, “Soulfire”, “Vacuum Cleaner” and “Instantanea 13”. The remaining six comprise five interpretations of established songs and “Il Volo”, written by Socha’s former guitar teacher Enrico Zanella.

The choice of covers is particularly interesting. Henry Mancini’s “Moon River”, The Beatles’ “Blackbird”, Chick Corea’s “Spain”, Ann Ronell’s “Willow Weep for Me” and John Mayer’s “Gravity” come from different musical backgrounds, giving Socha a varied collection of material to approach through his own guitar and harmonica playing. “Bossa Leonessa” hints at the Brazilian influences that form part of Socha’s musical vocabulary, while the wider collection draws from blues, jazz, folk, Celtic music and Americana.

What makes the album worth exploring is that it doesn’t present songwriting and interpretation as two separate interests. Both have a place on the same record, with Socha bringing his own creative instincts to material written by others while also making room for compositions that originate entirely from his imagination.

View from Inside is therefore more than a collection of songs chosen to showcase an instrumentalist. It’s a body of work that gives a useful insight into the music that interests Socha, the traditions he draws upon and the kind of material he wants to explore. Stream below via Now Listen PR:

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Amble Lights Up A Sold Out Brooklyn Paramount With Harmony And Heart

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5 hours ago

November 8, 2026

Toby Tenenbaum

Amble live at Brooklyn Paramount, November 7, 2026

Robbie Cunningham of Amble performs at a sold out Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, New York, on November 7, 2026. Photo by Toby Tenenbaum.

Brooklyn got the full measure of Amble on Saturday night. The Irish folk trio sold out Brooklyn Paramount long before the doors opened, then played sixteen songs that reached from their debut album Reverie to brand new music from the record still to come. By the end of the night, the room was singing like it had been waiting for this band all year. The photos below, by Toby Tenenbaum, tell the story of the evening as it unfolded.

A Full Band Behind Three Voices

Amble are Robbie Cunningham on lead vocals and guitar, Ross McNerney on mandolin, bouzouki and banjo, and Oisín McCaffrey on guitar and vocals. On stage in Brooklyn the trio’s songs arrived with a full band behind them, and the sound filled every corner of the Paramount. Special guest Vincent Lima opened the evening, on a run where he is the billed guest for the whole North American tour.

The night carried the feel of the way the band records. Cunningham has explained the approach behind Reverie this way: “In the studio, we’re all sitting in a circle and playing together around a microphone. Basically, everything is recorded live. You can feel the energy when you get the right take. If there’s even one mistake, we’ll start over. If you listen to Reverie, you’re truly hearing who we are.” On Saturday, Brooklyn heard exactly that, played live in front of them.

The Set

The main set opened with Schoolyard Days, The Swell and Hand Me Downs, and settled in for the long haul. Brooklyn got a song the rest of the tour has not heard in that spot, The Heather Calls, played fourth in place of the tour standard Marlay Park. Midway through, the band tipped its hat to John Prine with Angel From Montgomery.

Two songs pointed at the future. Church Bells and Last Rites both come from the band’s second album, Love And All Its Wares, which arrives on January 29, 2027. The main set closed with Tonnta, and the encore paired Lonely Island with Into a Dream, an unreleased song from the new album, sending the sold out room home on a first listen.

A Rise That Keeps Rising

Amble formed in the west of Ireland in late 2022, when Cunningham and McCaffrey, both former teachers, began playing together, with McNerney joining soon after. They signed to Warner Records in 2024, and the rise since has been steep: more than 229 million streams, a support run on Hozier’s North American tour, and 130,000 headline tickets sold in 2025 alone. Reverie, released May 23, 2025 and recorded live in one or two takes, spent four weeks at number one in Ireland and became the most streamed Irish album of 2025.

McCaffrey has said of the record, “Hopefully, it feels timeless. Our ambition was to make an album that would be great 100 years from now or 100 years ago.” Saturday night at the Paramount, that ambition sounded well within reach.

What Comes Next

The North American run continues this week, with a sold out night at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia on Tuesday, November 10, and closes in Dallas on November 18. Love And All Its Wares, the second album, arrives January 29, 2027 on Warner Records.