Farpoint Recordings

23/07/2024

whole body like a mouth, the new digital album by
Quiet Music Ensemble - available 30th July
from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp shop...

Michael Pisaro-Liu one year (changes) 24’27”
Jesse Ronneau Säulen 27’51”
John Cage Four6 30’06”
Andrew Crossley whole body like a mouth 14’28”

whole body like a mouth is the second release by QME on the Farpoint Recordings label and the first of three new albums planned for 2024. The album features works by Michael Pisaro-Liu, Jesse Ronneau, John Cage and Andrew Crossley.

The pieces in this release are exquisite examples of sound poised as if floating in a sea of silence, each piece shaping its own fascinating challenge for the musicians of QME. This music is restrained, intriguing, tiny and yet somehow world-spanning, and - above all - deeply moving in a very unexpected way…

11/07/2024

Presenting the first of three new Quiet Music Ensemble albums released through Farpoint Recordings during 2024 ...

whole body like a mouth, the new digital album by Quiet Music Ensemble

Michael Pisaro-Liu Jesse Ronneau
John Cage Andrew Crossley

30th July - Farpoint Recordings

Farpoint Recordings is an artist-run creative project publishing contemporary sound and audio-visual practices.

08/07/2024

A big thank-you to Mark Kavanagh - music writer, DJ and lover of adventurous sounds and music for this Farpoint Recordings write up:

Experimental Irish record label Farpoint celebrates 20 years with hectic release schedule
https://www.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/experimental-irish-record-label-farpoint-33186777

03/07/2024

Rivers Of Silence part II, a live performance by The Quiet Club (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea)
Lavit Gallery, Cork, Friday 6 July, 1pm
Free, no booking required, all welcome

Also...
Haunted By Silence by Danny McCarthy
The Vaults @ Lavit Gallery - until 27 July 2024, Admission free

The sound installation Haunted By Silence stems from hours the artist has spent “just listening” in the church of St Marys Abbey Glencairn, County Waterford. In the evenings when the Abbey Church heating system is turned off the wood in the building begins to contract causing various sounds to occur in different parts of the church. These sounds occur totally at random, sometimes loud and sometimes quiet and coming from so many directions that one is unable to predict when and from where they will occur. Considering it to be the best sound installation he has ever heard McCarthy was in a quandary as to how to replicate something similar in an art gallery context. Using field recordings from Glencairn and other sounds created by the artist in his studio, the installation Haunted By Silence occupies the intimate environment of the vaults at Lavit Gallery. Using the unique architecture of the spaces, and low lighting, sounds are dislocated and sporadic, replicating the phenomenon in the church.

Danny McCarthys new CD album will be released during late 2024 on the Farpoint Recordings label.

28/06/2024

Relevant Tones #431 - Ian Wilson discusses his new album Orpheus Down with Seth Boustead

Composer Ian Wilson’s ten-movement piece Orpheus Down is inspired by the story of Orpheus’ journey to the Underworld to bring his lover Eurydice back from the dead. The myth and its themes of deep and dark inspire fascinating music on a new release featuring bass clarinettist Gareth Davis and double-bassist Dario Calderone, for whom the piece was written.

Listen to the interview here:
https://relevanttones.com/2024/06/24/431-ian-wilson-orpheus-down/

Orpheus Down is out now on Farpoint Recordings
CD copies available here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/ian-wilson-orpheus-down
DL version available here:
https://ianwilson2.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus-down

25/06/2024

Haunted By Silence by Danny McCarthy
The Vaults @ Lavit Gallery 26 June – 20 July 2024
Admission free

- Performance by The Quiet Club (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea) Friday 6 July, 1pm. Free, no booking required. All welcome -
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The sound installation Haunted By Silence stems from the hours Danny McCarthy has spent “just listening” in the church of St Marys Abbey Glencairn, County Waterford. In the evenings when the Abbey Church heating system is turned off the wood in the building begins to contract causing various sounds to occur in different parts of the church. These sounds occur totally at random, sometimes loud and sometimes quiet and coming from so many directions that one is unable to predict when and from where they will occur. Considering it to be the best sound installation he has ever heard McCarthy was in a quandary as to how to replicate something similar in an art gallery context. Using field recordings from Glencairn and other sounds created by the artist in his studio, the installation Haunted By Silence occupies the intimate environment of the vaults at Lavit Gallery. Using the unique architecture of the spaces, and low lighting, sounds are dislocated and sporadic, replicating the phenomenon in the church.
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Danny McCarthys new CD album will be released during late 2024 on the Farpoint Recordings label.
www.soundoutin.blogspot.com

21/06/2024

Out now!

Secret Space by Benjamin Dwyer and Alison Grace Koehler CD/Book, DL

Sneezing and a Jupiter hold
in my throat
the Belgian beer
awoken in the night, how often
statue of an elfin man
standing on a side-slung sphere
dead wasps everywhere
rain drop on my knuckle
the paper will start to bleed

Secret Space is a collaboration between composer Benjamin Dwyer and poet Alison Grace Koehler. The resulting work features music by Benjamin Dwyer combined with poems and spoken word by Alison Grace Koehler. In response, Farpoint Recordings have produced a limited edition CD, DL & 40 page book, with images by Tony Carragher. The audio CD features a performance of the music and poetry of Dwyer & Koehler, while the 40 page book contains Koehler’s poems and full colour photography by Carragher throughout.

The 21 x 25 cms large format book is printed on heavy uncoated papers with the CD attached to the inside cover. This first edition is limited to just 200 copies.

Recent live performances of Secret Space in the James Joyce Centre, Dublin and Pálás, Galway played to full houses and were very well received. Keep an ear open for news of more performances later in the Autumn.

The project has been supported by Melodium Studio Montreuil and Middlesex University London. A big thank you to Nicole Rourke from Anna Livia Creative and the staff at James Joyce Cultural Centre, Dublin and Pálás, Galway.

Secret Space physical copies available here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/benjamin-dwyer-and-alison-grace-koehler-secret-space

Prefer digital? Visit our Bandcamp page here:
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com/album/secret-space

31/05/2024

Secret Space CD, Book & DL
Benjamin Dwyer & Alison Grace Koehler
Launch-performances 7th June, James Joyce Centre, Dublin
and 8th June, Pálás, Galway

Shyly blushing shell
chèvre, pesto, miel
a stomach full of quiet agitation
one rubber glove
reveal to your reader
which stones outline
your truth
remove one
color one blue
with the ink that stains
the callus on your
middle finger
indented becoming
a pen rest


Secret Space is a collaboration between composer Benjamin Dwyer and poet Alison Grace Koehler. The resulting work features music by Benjamin Dwyer and poems and spoken word by Alison Koehler. Farpoint Recordings have produced a limited edition 40 page book, CD & DL with images by Tony Carragher.

The first edition of 200 copies will be launched during forthcoming live performances in the James Joyce Centre, Dublin (7th June) and Pálás, Galway (8th June)

25/05/2024

Sneezing and a Jupiter hold
in my throat
the Belgian beer
awoken in the night, how often
statue of an elfin man
standing on a side-slung sphere
dead wasps everywhere
rain drop on my knuckle
the paper will start to bleed

Secret Space
Benjamin Dwyer & Alison Grace Koehler
CD and Book - 7th June

29/04/2024

Ian Wilson’s Orpheus Down features on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show with Tom Service

Many thanks to Tom Service and BBC Radio 3 New Music Show for featuring tracks from Ian Wilson’s new CD release Orpheus Down.

You can listen in here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9r8

Orpheus Down CD available here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/ian-wilson-orpheus-down

26/04/2024

Culture File, RTÉ lyric fm featuring sound artist Joseph Young

Farpoint Recordings released the digital version of Sonic Hauntings In A Big House by sound artist Joseph Young during a launch event at Killruddery House, County Wicklow. During the event Culture File, RTE lyric FM interviewed Joseph about his work, The Ancestors, which places the voices of the long departed, among other sounds, around the gardens of Kilruddery House.

Farpoint is also delighted to announce that we are now working with Joseph on a vinyl LP version of the album, due for release later this year. More news soon.

You can listen to the Culture File, RTÉ lyric fm interview here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/culture-file/id266570163?i=1000653365904

Sonic Hauntings In A Big House digital album available here:
https://ofnoises.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hauntings-in-a-big-house

Photography by Michael Durand
Sonic Hauntings cover art by Doreen Kennedy

Thanks to Luke Clancy & Vanessa Noonan

10/04/2024

- Orpheus Down by Ian Wilson, CD release and live concerts -

Inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld, this 45-minute, 10-movement work makes much use of special playing techniques, improvisation, and the vast experience of the two marvellous performers bass clarinettist Gareth Davis and double bassist Dario Calderone. The CD release features detailed liner notes by Wilson alongside images by photographer Kennedy and will be released April 14th.

Ian is taking the project on the road - Orpheus Down will receive its premiere concert performances between April 10th and 14th in Ireland this year. Dario Calderone and Gareth Davis will perform at DCU Lunchtime Concert series on 10th, at Cork School of Music on 12th, and at the Sundays at Noon series, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, on 14th.

All performances are free, please check with venues for concert times and other information. The project is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealíon.

Farpoint Recordings will release a studio recording of Ian Wilson's new long-form duo for bass clarinet and double bass "Orpheus Down" on 14th April, immediately after a live performance of the work at the Sundays at Noon series in the Lane Gallery, Dublin.

www.farpointrecordings.com


DCU School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music
MTU Cork School of Music
Hugh Lane Gallery

09/04/2024

Bernard Clarke will be featuring tracks from vlz, the new album from Victor Lazzarini during The Blue Of The Night, RTÉ lyric FM all of this week. The show goes out Monday - Thursday, 21:00 - 00:00
https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/blue-of-the-night/

vlz CD is available from here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/victor-lazzarini-vlz-very-low-impedance

Prefer digital? DL available from our Bandcamp shop here:
https://victorlazzarini.bandcamp.com/album/vlz-very-low-impedance

Many thanks to Bernard and RTÉ lyric fm for their kind support.

Clarke RTÉ lyric fm Blue Of The Night Victor Lazzarini

07/04/2024

Orpheus Down by Ian Wilson features on tonights Geography of Sound

A brief note to let you know that Ian Wilson’s new album Orpheus Down will be featured during Luís Tinoco’s Geography of Sound programme tonight (at 24h UK time):
http://www.rtp.pt/programa/radio/p1123

We’ll have more news regarding Ian's Orpheus Down CD release on Farpoint Recordings very shortly…

02/04/2024

Sonic Hauntings in a Big House, the new digital album by sound artist Joseph Young will be launched during a special event at The Orangery, Killruddery House, Co. Wicklow, 5.30pm Thursday 4th April, 2024

FREE, places limited, booking essential via Mermaid Art Centre website.�https://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/events/ancestors-map�

Sonic Hauntings in a Big House, the new digital album by sound artist Joseph Young emerged out of a practice-based PhD research project, Killruddery: Listening to the Archive (2019-23). In his debut album for Farpoint Recordings, sound artist Joseph Young summons the rich and complex histories of the Big House in Ireland through field recordings, voice(s) and retro-futuristic sonic layering. Through exploring the extensive family archive held at Bray’s Killruddery House & Gardens, Young devised both a geolocated soundscape in Killruddery’s grounds and this accompanying record, which further proposes a spectral glimpse of a lost past. The digital album will be available from our Bandcamp shop. The physical vinyl LP version of this album will be released by Farpoint Recordings later in 2024.

Also launching during this event:
Mapping The Ancestors is a new limited edition artwork designed by the award winning Or Studio in collaboration with artist Joseph Young, to accompany Young’s site-specific sound work, The Ancestors. Made as part of Young’s PhD research, The Ancestors draws on the rich private archive held at Killruddery House and Gardens, where historical estate papers sit alongside personal diaries and letters. At this special launch reception, Young and Killruddery's archivist Xenia Meath will discuss the significance of this fascinating repository and lead a short tour of The Ancestors ‘sound walk’ and the archive itself.

The event is held at Killruddery House and Gardens’ beautiful Orangery, with a drinks reception courtesy of Killruddery Arts.

With thanks to Fionnuala Ardee, Xenia Meath (Killruddery House) and Anne Mullee (Mermaid Arts Centre)

Sonic Hauntings in a Big House is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealíon.

www.killruddery.com
www.mermaidartscentre.ie
www.farpointrecordings.com

27/03/2024

Thank you Luke Clancy and Culture File, RTÉ lyric fm for this article on Victor Lazzarini and his new album vlz, out now on Farpoint Recordings.

"A new album of mysteriously warm and evocative electronic music, vlz, summons Culture File to the synth-filled lair of composer, Victor Lazzarini..."

You can listen to the short feature here:
https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/clips/22376528/

Album available from here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/victor-lazzarini-vlz-very-low-impedance

25/03/2024

Your Location In Space by Phil Maguire
12 - 6pm, Saturday 30th March, 2024
The Guesthouse, 10 Chapel Street, Cork, Ireland
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John Cage says that sound simply gets “louder and quieter...higher and lower...longer and shorter” in its activity. Phil Maguire is similarly fascinated by electronic sound being nothing other than itself; his work is solely an experience of sound. Your Location in Space is an environment in which he explores the possibility of his work creating an acoustic space, that affords the listener an opportunity to reflect within an enveloping sonic environment and be afloat in sound.

In the work of Phil Maguire, compositional energy is focused on the study of timbre of electronic sound: conventional musical concerns such as harmony, melody, or assumptions of the music being explicitly meaningful are not considerations. There are no backgrounds or foregrounds. It is similar to being enveloped by a mist: something you are within, rather than observe from outside.
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The installation includes audio material drawn from Phil's forthcoming album on Farpoint Recordings.
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The project is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealíon.

02/03/2024

We had a great launch event the other evening at Riverstown Hall, Maynooth University and it was fantastic to see so many of you there. Thank you all for coming along on a very cold night to hear Victors performance and purchase his new album, we really do appreciate your support!

vlz, the new CD by Victor Lazzarini is now available from our Farpoint Recordings shop -
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/victor-lazzarini-vlz-very-low-impedance

And if you prefer digital then pop over to our Bandcamp outlet -
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com


… brilliantly crafted, intellectually rigorous, some of the very greatest pure electronic works in this island at present. Bernard Clarke, Blue Of The Night, RTÉ lyric fm

vlz, a new CD by Victor Lazzarini
This album is, from many perspectives, a new departure for Victor Lazzarini. With it, he has rediscovered some of the music he has appreciated since his youth. It also marks a return to performance. As a pianist, synthesist, and keyboard player, he has played every single part that was recorded for each track of this collection. This allowed him to work through new compositions from an improvisation point of view, which is a practice he had not used for a long time. The title of the album somehow reflects this, as Lazzarini found a way of doing things that seemed to offer very low impedance in a metaphoric sense.

21/02/2024

Announcing vlz, a new CD, launch event and performance by Victor Lazzarini

Riverstown Hall, Maynooth University, County Kildare
29th Feb, 7.30pm All are welcome to attend

… brilliantly crafted, intellectually rigorous, some of the very greatest pure electronic works in this island at present.
Bernard Clarke, Blue Of The Night, RTÉ lyric fm

This album is, from many perspectives, a new departure for Victor Lazzarini. With it, he has rediscovered some of the music he has appreciated since his youth. It also marks a return to performance. As a pianist, synthesist, and keyboard player, he has played every single part that was recorded for each track of this collection. This allowed him to work through new compositions from an improvisation point of view, which is a practice he had not used for a long time. The title of the album somehow reflects this, as Lazzarini found a way of doing things that seemed to offer very low impedance in a metaphoric sense.

vlz will be launched on the evening of 29th February at Riverstown Hall, Maynooth University, County Kildare with a short live performance by Victor Lazzarini. All are welcome to attend.

vlz is available in CD and digital formats from 29th February, 2024. The CD version comes as a limited edition 4 panel gatefold eco-pack sleeve with and an A4 size insert. The insert doubles a poster and is also available posted flat. Extensive liner notes by Victor Lazzarini and images by Alice Lazzarini feature throughout. The CD is published as a first edition of 500 copies. vlz is also available as a digital download (with a pdf booklet featuring full liner notes and images) via Bandcamp, streaming via Apple Music and Spotify.

www.farpointrecordings.com

07/12/2023

Farpoint Recordings are pleased to announce the digital reissue of ‘Voices Inside’, Victor Lazzarini’s debut CD from 2009. The new digital edition features an additional bonus track 'Unreal City'.

Digital & CD editions are available here:
https://victorlazzarini.bandcamp.com/album/voices-inside

Voices Inside comprises the debut CD release of electroacoustic and live-electronic works by Irish based Brazilian composer Victor Lazzarini. The album contains a variety of music, ranging from vocal explorations to a Jazz-inspired eulogy to John Coltrane. These works portray, mosaic-like, the eclectic nature of Lazzarini's compositions, a meeting point of various musical streams and interests; the contemporary and the ancient, the technological and the primeval.

Victor Lazzarini’s new album ‘vlz’ will be released during early 2024.

01/12/2023

Delighted to announce this new double CD release from Farpoint Recordings - Earth, Air, Water, Fire: A Poetry Soundscape features the wonderful poetry and voice of Paul Kane in combination with the mesmerising soundscapes of sound artist Katie O'Looney. The packaging includes artwork from artist John Wolseley and graphic design by Doreen Kennedy.

CD copies available here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/paul-kane-katie-o-looney-earth-air-water-fire-a-poetry-soundscape

Paul Kane and Katie O'Looney present their ambitious collaborative double CD of composed soundscapes and poetry on the Farpoint Recordings label. Katie O’Looney’s soundscapes for Earth, Air, Water, Fire: A Poetry Soundscape are environmental in impulse and inspiration. The verse, while ‘philosophically serious’, is also ‘at times, witty and ludic in tone. Earth, Air, Water, Fire is an extended contemplation on not only the elements of our world—both outer and inner - but also on how that world is called into being and then lived most fully and skilfully. Similarly, the paintings of John Wolseley suggest an energetic spontaneity appropriate to a layering improvisation.

Double CD, 6 panel fold out ecopack with A4 insert or poster option
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/paul-kane-katie-o-looney-earth-air-water-fire-a-poetry-soundscape

DL with full artwork pdf booklet from Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp outlet
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com

29/11/2023

Delighted to say Volume Records (Dún Laoghaire's favourite record shop) is now stocking copies of recent releases from Farpoint Recordings (Dún Laoghaire's favourite record label)...

Drop in and ask for Brian!

Volume Records and Books,
75 York Rd,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin, A96 Y6X2


All our titles are available from
www.farpointrecordings.com

24/11/2023

New Release! - Announcing Earth, Air, Water, Fire: A Poetry Soundscape - an ambitious new double CD by Paul Kane & Katie O'Looney - on sale Thursday, 30th November 2023 from Farpoint Recordings.

Paul Kane and Katie O'Looney present their ambitious collaborative double CD of composed soundscapes and poetry on the Farpoint Recordings label. Katie O’Looney’s soundscapes for Earth, Air, Water, Fire: A Poetry Soundscape are environmental in impulse and inspiration. The verse, while ‘philosophically serious’, is also ‘at times, witty and ludic in tone. Earth, Air, Water, Fire is an extended contemplation on not only the elements of our world—both outer and inner - but also on how that world is called into being and then lived most fully and skilfully. Similarly, the paintings of John Wolseley suggest an energetic spontaneity appropriate to a layering improvisation.

Double CD, 6 panel fold out ecopack with A4 insert / poster; DL from Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp outlet. Out 30th November!

There are a still a few remaining T-Shirt & download bundles available -

Adventurous sounds for curious ears - a new limited edition Farpoint Recordings T-Shirt bundled with a free download from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp catalogue - all for just 19 euros!

Get your T-Shirt bundle from the Farpoint Recordings webshop here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/farpoint-recordings-t-shirt

27/10/2023

Listen in to John McLachlan and Jonathan Grimes, reflecting on John's CMC Composer Residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, the composer's approach to writing music, and his new album of piano works Drinking the Stars recorded by pianist Mary Dullea.

amplify #96 is available on Spotify / Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts or you can listen at the CMC website 🔗 https://loom.ly/GavXN2Y

Copies of Drinking the Stars are available from the Farpoint Recordings webshop:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/john-mclachlan-drinking-the-stars

Digital version available from our Bandcamp outlet:
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com

Farpoint Recordings

26/10/2023

Our thanks to Music Machine for their review of The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes by The Quiet Club.

"...a very recommended release, a huge expanse of work that functions just as well as background ambience as it does reward close listening.
.. compelling in a low key way. The beginning of ‘Tape 4’ sounds like popping candy in your mouth, whilst you are surrounded by whirring toys, followed soon enough by an effective passage that combines sound poetry-esque vocals over a low drone. ... an odd, collage feel with a languid, dreamy tone. The length of this release makes it unusual, and hard to get a firm grasp of, but there’s lots to enjoy here. A fine album." 4/5

Read the full article here:
https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=10042

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Cassette tape available here (last few copies in stock)
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/the-quiet-club-the-telepathic-lockdown-tapes

Download here:
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com/album/the-telepathic-lockdown-tapes

16/09/2023

This is happening right now!

Sonic Vigil with guest David Toop
Cork Opera House, 16th September, 12 - 6pm
Free Entry

Drop by and visit the Farpoint Recordings table featuring releases by many of the performers at this year vigil...

David Toop, The Quiet Club, Cathal Roche, Karen Power, Quiet Music Ensemble, Danny McCarthy, Mick O’Shea, Irene Murphy, John Godfrey, Imna Pavon, Harry Moore, Vicky Langan, Anthony Kelly, David Stalling, Robin Parmar, Tony Langlois, Seán Taylor, Eimear Reidy, Katie O’Looney, Anne Marie Decay, Claudia Barton, Andy Ingamells, David Bremner, Billy Kemp, Pierre Berthet + Rie Nakajima

25/08/2023

Happening very soon in Cork!

Sonic Vigil XI: In Your Own Time and Place
3 days of improvised music, film, sound art and movement
Cork Opera House & The Guesthouse
14 - 16 September, 2023

Quiet Music Ensemble
Cork Opera House, 14th September, 8pm
Tickets 10, 7 euros

The Quiet Club + Cathal Roche, Memory Echo (short film by Andrew Deutsch featuring Pauline Oliveros)
The Guesthouse, 15th September, 6pm
Tickets 10 euro (inc food)

Sonic Vigil with guest David Toop
Cork Opera House, 16th September, 12 - 6pm
Free Entry

David Toop, The Quiet Club, Cathal Roche, Karen Power, Quiet Music Ensemble, Danny McCarthy, Mick O’Shea, Irene Murphy, John Godfrey, Imna Pavon, Harry Moore, Vicky Langan, Anthony Kelly, David Stalling, Robin Parmar, Tony Langlois, Seán Taylor, Eimear Reidy, Katie O’Looney, Anne Marie Decay, Claudia Barton, Andy Ingamells, David Bremner, Billy Kemp, Pierre Berthet + Rie Nakajima

Full information here:
https://padlet.com/ammmgt/sonic-vigil-11-70qdeplmlholmn0s?fbclid=IwAR1n_XcKWfjhLXTvPboagGaG7fNAr8Lo_4Ko0PurFtH3qqZlXKytHDhaTFI

30/06/2023

A big thank-you to Aedín Gormley from RTÉ lyric FM for featuring Drinking The Stars, the new double CD by John McLachlan on her programme today.

You can listen here:
Aedín in the Afternoon
https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/aedin-in-the-afternoon/

Drinking The Stars, the new double CD by John McLachlan available here:
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/john-mclachlan-drinking-the-stars

Prefer Digital? The album is also available as a digital download (with a pdf booklet featuring full liner notes and images by artist Joanna Kidney) and streaming via Bandcamp.
https://jmclachlan.bandcamp.com/album/drinking-the-stars

29/06/2023

New Release!
Drinking The Stars - an ambitious double CD by John McLachlan available now from the Farpoint Recordings webshop
https://www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page/john-mclachlan-drinking-the-stars
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Mary Dullea plays the solo piano music of John McLachlan on a new double CD entitled Drinking the Stars. Spanning his output from the 1990s to today, it showcases his compositional style and how it evolves over that time. The music ranges across splinteringly direct virtuosity, sinewy counterpoint, rich chordal meditation and much else besides; yet we hear unity in the artistic voice. The interplay of sets of terse miniatures, medium sized meditations, and lengthier immersive pieces gives a layered feeling when listened through as a programme. The selection of pieces includes nearly all of McLachlan’s piano compositions intended for the concert stage (as distinct from his pedagogical works).

Mary Dullea’s superb range of tone and mastery of timing are captured clearly and cleanly by Chris Corrigan’s expert engineering, in recordings made in Belfast and Kilkenny. This CD makes it possible to hear many works that have been heard only in live concerts before, by many pianists, scattered across many countries and years, and it is a great place to get an overview of this composer’s musical landscape.

The CD features detailed liner notes by McLachlan and beautiful images by renowned artist Joanna Kidney.
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Special CD Bundle offer - Drinking The Stars & First
Take advantage of our special CD bundle offer and get Drinking The Stars along with John’s debut album First for only 25 euros. To avail of this offer please select Drinking The Stars + First under 'Bundle Option' in the Farpoint Recordings webshop.
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Prefer Digital? The album is also available as a digital download (with a pdf booklet featuring full liner notes and images) and streaming via Bandcamp.
https://jmclachlan.bandcamp.com/album/drinking-the-stars

26/06/2023

According To The Moon by Gayle Young & Sarah Albu CD review - Textura magazine

Writing for Textura, Ron Schepper finds “ a compelling portrait of an intrepid artist unafraid to push past conventional boundaries into experimental zones. It also manages to be an accessible collection without compromising on the integrity of Young's vision.”

You can read the full review here:
https://www.textura.org/archives/a/albuyoung_accordingtothemoon.htm