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VIDEO RESTORATION 2026

Throughout 2026 a large scale video restoration process is underway. From 2003 onwards, ANÚNA released a series of ground-breaking music videos that defined how choral music was portrayed and, more significantly, the way music and landscape were interpreted. The videos were made with what was available at the time - a Sony VX1000 camera, no technical skills and a significant amount of insect bites from standing in forest, fields and in rivers. But there is something magical about them.

The footage has been returned to its original “soft” texture, that particular film texture that only Standard definition digital footage had, dating it but distancing it from the footage we can achieve today.

Michael McGlynn has returned to the original standard definition files and, thanks to advances in video mastering, is upscaling and remastering the original videos. You can see below the most recent upscales - “Blackthorn” and “Sleepsong” dating from 2005 and 2003, both featuring Lucy Champion as soloist. The aim of this remastering is to bring the original footage back into focus, to present it as it was intended to be shown. We also have the opportunity to include footage from the original video recording sessions that was omitted.

This process will result in an eventual film release in 2026.

ANÚNA ARCHIVE 2027

The first major work being undertaken prior to ANÚNA40 in 2027 is background information on ANÚNA’s album releases. You can find updated information on all those completed to date here
Part of the Archiving process involves the creation of specific pages that recount and contextualise the entire album catalogue. You can visit pages directly from here for each of the releases created to date.

Eilífð (2025)
Otherworld (2023)
Revelation (2015)
Illuminations (2012-14)
Sensation (2006)
Cynara (2000)
Behind the Closed Eye (1997)
Deep Dead Blue (1996)
Omnis (1995-96)
Invocation (1994)
ANÚNA (1993)
An Uaithne (1991)

2025 began the process with the release of six records, mainly compilations and remasters

Tochairm
Eilífð
Ever Come to an End (EP)
Sanctum
Transcendence
A Whisper of Paradise (film and Album)

Sanctum and Transcendence are spiritual albums, Sanctum featuring a selection of original pieces by Michael McGlynn interspersed with his arrangements of Early Irish music, while Transcendence features exclusively Michael’s compositions. Eilífð is a new interpretation and expansion of the 2023 release Otherworld, while Yasunori Mitsudas’s beautiful music, composed for ANÚNA as part of the soundtrack of Xenoblade II, makes up the four track EP Ever Come to an End. A Whisper of Paradise is a re-master and expansion of the 2023 release Christmas From Ireland with its accompanying award-winning film of the same name. Tochairm explores Michael’s compositional voice in a beautifully cohesive musical document that spans thirty years of our catalogue.