Cork’s Inclusive Music Ensemble release their new single “Abundance” | The Journal of Music in Ireland

The Inclusive Music Ensemble (IME) presents Abundance, a new co-created single developed in collaboration with Fionnathan — the son‑and‑father artistic partnership of Fionn Crombie Angus and Jonathan Angus, whose work spans music, media, education, and social justice. Abundance will be released online on Tuesday May 19th .
Sharing its title with Fionnathan’s ongoing Abundance initiative — a project grounded in ideas of citizenship, contribution, and the belief that everyone’s gifts have value — the single reflects a shared commitment to inclusive creativity and collective authorship. Musically, Abundance brings together traditional Irish melodies, acoustic instruments, and electronic textures, shaped through IME’s exploratory ensemble practice and Fionnathan’s roots in trad fiddle & guitar performance.
Recorded in the MTU Cork School of Music recording studio, the single stands as a celebration of abundance in its fullest sense: of ideas, voices, perspectives, and possibilities.
The single will be released digitally on all streaming platforms on Tuesday May 19th. Pre-save the track here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/inclusivemusicensemble/abundance-feat-fionnathan

About the Inclusive Music Ensemble (IME)
The Inclusive Music Ensemble (IME) is a Cork‑based collective dedicated to collaborative, socially inclusive music‑making. Bringing together musicians with a wide range of abilities, experiences, and musical languages, IME operates through co‑creation, shared authorship, and experimental practice.
IME’s work spans acoustic and electronic sound, improvisation, composition, and studio‑based production, with a strong emphasis on process as a site of learning, agency, and artistic discovery. The ensemble’s practice challenges conventional models of music hierarchy, instead foregrounding relational making and accessibility as core creative values.
Based at MTU Cork School of Music, IME engages in performance and recording projects that explore how inclusive artistic practices can generate distinctive, high‑quality musical outcomes. Through collaborations with artists, composers, and researchers — including its recent work with Fionnathan — IME continues to demonstrate how inclusion and innovation can be mutually reinforcing forces in contemporary music.