Musicians Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby, whose creative paths first crossed during their school days, have reunited once more. Under their new name, Pilgrims, they’ve launched their debut single, Bright & Bold, and are due to release an album in January. The duo will take their Pilgrims project on the road early next year, with a live show in the city’s Róisín Dubh on Sunday, March 1. Tickets for that are now on sale.

Noonan and Crosby, along with Damien Rice, formed Juniper in the early 1990s before the two became founding members of indie band Bell X1. In the years since, both have developed their own careers. Noonan is known for his work with Bell X1 and other projects, Printer Clips and HousePlants (with electronic producer Daithí). Crosby, meanwhile, has written scores for film and television productions as well as gaining recognition for his solo piano and ambient work.

Pilgrims, which is anchored in piano and voice, marks their first creative collaboration in 16 years.

“Since reconnecting on My Bones a Scaffold last year, we’ve been working on a bunch of songs that sprung from new instrumental pieces by Brian, or songs that I had sketches for,” explains Paul Noonan. “Coming from a more classical or cinematic well, Brian takes the kinds of harmonic journeys that I don’t and the songs are all the richer for it.

“We did some shows together last April and played some of these new things. It was there that Pilgrims was formed, in its purist form just piano and vocal. In those small, beautiful rooms, it took playing the songs for people, feeling that connection and inhabiting the characters, for it to feel like it had its own heart and lungs.

“The recordings are a little more embellished, although often we would add things and take them away – feeling that we knew what this thing isn’t, happy to be a little fuzzy on what it is,” he adds.

Their tour will begin in Wicklow on January 23 and travel the country, finishing in Galway on March 1.

■ Tickets on sale now at www.pilgrims.music.

Pictured: Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby.