Icebear – White Dove Dream

Dreams can be stories, their fabric transient and their logic malleable – like folk songs carrying ancient knowledge or clairvoyant wisdom.

White Dove Dream tells a story that only sound can. One that defies language and closed narrative; a story that is both a personal rumination and collective conversation.

There are layers of healing synthesis and dream logic improvisation; captured recordings coalesce somewhere beneath the scramble like deja vu. Like a diary entry or a manifesto – noise is folk music and Icebear is noisy.

​​Icebear is Eilis Mahon, a musician from Kildare, Ireland, currently based in Limerick City.

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Icebear began as a lofi recording project while Mahon was in school. Her previous releases ‘Bug’, ‘in watermelon sugar’, ‘in summer i am an empty field’ & ‘lost voice memos’ were recorded in her childhood bedroom using tape experiments and synth improvisations.

As Mahon entered adulthood, the project morphed into an experiment in noise and performance, using harsh noise and improvised electronics to explore pain, power and trauma.

White Dove Dream circles back to Icebear’s roots – created alone in a bedroom during a period of personal (and collective) alienation, it serves as a reminder that the past versions of ourselves are never too far away, never quite gone; they flicker, fade out and repeat.