Irish harper and songwriter Aisling Urwin announces the release of her new single, Flying Colours, out today. The track is the second glimpse into her forthcoming album The Other Place, due for release on November 19th, 2025, following initial single Wild! last month.
A song about the soul leaving the body and taking flight with another through the night sky, Flying Colours is vibrant, playful, and rich with movement and texture. It carries the listener through dreamlike landscapes – o’er mountains, oceans, branches and moonlight. Sounds of a grandfather clock ticking and wind-up toy cars turning evoke both nostalgia and fantasy, while the arrangement mirrors the expansive, otherworldly scope of the lyrics.
Urwin’s dynamic harp and expressive vocals sit at the heart of the track, accompanied by an almost orchestral percussion from Davie Ryan and sweeping strings and flugelhorn from Kate Lidell. The result is a contemporary folk song coloured by cinematic textures, recorded at Wavefield Recording, Clonakilty with Brian Casey.
“‘Flying Colours’ is about slipping beyond the ordinary – that moment of weightlessness when you’re carried somewhere else, somewhere bigger than yourself,” says Urwin. “It’s playful, fantastical and full of motion.”
Accompanying the single is a vivid and dream-like music video, filmed on the mountainous Cork-Kerry border by Kate Flo Murphy. The video plays with light, shadow, liminal spaces, play and movement, offering a striking visual counterpart to the song’s themes of fantasy and flight.
The single is the first from Aisling’s forthcoming second solo album The Other Place. A sonic departure from her debut, the record is a contemporary atmos-folk exploration of the places we can feel but can’t quite reach.
“As I was writing the album, what started circling around in my head were the places and spaces the songs inhabit. They all feel like their own little worlds,” Urwin explains. “The album starts quite far away, far out there in a wormhole, and by the end of the album, we’re down the end of the back garden. And there are synths and hammered dulcimers and bouzoukis and fiddles to get us from A to B.”
The Other Place will be released on 19th November 2025 – a collection that reflects her evolving sound at the intersection of tradition, imagination and liminal spaces. Listen to new single Flying Colours now on all streaming platforms.