NWRC music students to release Paranoise album promoting mental health with funds to Foyle Network Foundation
North West Regional College’s Music and Performing Arts students are getting set to launch Paranoise, an album full of original music promoting a positive mental health.
The album is part of their ‘Hear Us Out’ project. It will be available from April 9 via all major streaming channels.
The album will be launched at a ticket-only event in the college’s Foyle Theatre where all the Paranoise artists will perform their individual tracks, accompanied by a band made up of fellow music students.
Money will be raised for local charity the Foyle Network Foundation – formerly the Foyle Foodbank - through the sale of merchandise and a bucket collection.
Lecturer Matthew McCracken who is one of a team of NWRC staff mentoring the students through the project, described the album as a ‘massive achievement’.
He added: “We are immensely proud of these students and for some of them this is the first time they have had their music hosted on a streaming platform.
"There is some incredible talent on the album, and they all bring their own different style which ranges from Folk, Hip-Hop, Rock, Indie and much more.
“The launch will be compered by students Oisin Kerrigan and Brendan Halford, and we can’t wait to welcome our students, family and friends to show them what we have done.
"This is very much a collaborative project with students from across the music and performing arts department supporting in terms of marketing, production, mixing, live sound, lighting, compering, and performing on the day.
“Most importantly this project is very much about promoting good mental health and we’ve a fantastic album that we’re sure the public will love.”