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QuickviewThe Santa Rita Concerts: Sarah Davachi
Tickets€15.00"Like Brian Eno at his solo best, it's the sort of ambience that doesn't flood, that hovers precariously somewhere between the conscious and the unconscious, barely-there and indisputably present." – pitchfork.com -
QuickviewThe Santa Rita Concerts: Maarja Nuut
Tickets€15.00"Maarja Nuut, a singer and violinist from Estonia, used loops and electronics to build austere, minimalist grids, with traditional-sounding waltzes and polkas floating in them like ghostly memories." – The New York Times -
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QuickviewThe Santa Rita Concerts: Rue
Tickets€15.00“ ...a folk trio taking big new steps with an old form...” – The Irish Times -
QuickviewThe Santa Rita Concerts: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Tickets€15.00“...the most singular traditional Irish musician of his generation...” – State Magazine -
QuickviewThe Santa Rita Concerts: Clang Sayne
Tickets“...exhilarating in its refusal to conform...” – The Wire€15.00 -
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QuickviewThe weathered stone
Benedict Schlepper-ConnollyReleasesInspired by the secret histories of landscapes, old maps and memory, this music by Dublin composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly possesses the ecstatic, unforced beauty of the natural world – at once minimal and teeming with matter. "...a thing of rare, rich beauty..." – Michael Quinn, Classical Ear "...filled with a haunting beauty..." – Whole Note Magazine (Canada) "This is a very strong modern classical work, inspired by old maps, memory and importantly – landscapes. It feels like a fresh, outdoor record – perfect for Autumn and the colder months ahead. Highly recommended." — Irregular Crates€10.00 – €20.00 including taxes -
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Peter AdriaanszReleasesA treasury of chamber music highlighting Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz’ fastidious artistic mind, featuring Saskia Lankhoorn (piano), Ensemble Klang and Trio Scordatura. "Blissful to experience." – De Volkskrant€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes"Each of these mesmerising pieces combines precise construction with an otherworldly sonic halo, its crystalline clarity of design tinged with complicating radiance." – The Wire -
QuickviewSmacht
David CollierReleasesAn engrossing sweep of the Irish composer David Collier's recent work. “...this music is ingenious, inventive and actually full of tension despite the seeming serene focus. The nuance of touch and timbre are brilliant and that timelessness … that frozen quality of the combination of sometimes busy surface and slowly unfolding structure, that is bewitching here. Momentum and stasis.” – Bernard Clarke, Nova, RTÉ lyric fm€10.00 – €30.00 including taxes -
QuickviewLeft Behind: Songs of the 1916 Widows
Simon O'Connor & Michelle O'RourkeReleasesComposer Simon O'Connor and vocalist Michelle O'Rourke present a collection of haunting songs inspired by the stories of the widows of rebel leaders involved in the 1916 Easter Rising. "There was no shortage of music contributions for the 1916 centenary, but I doubt if there was anything more original or insightful than this thought-provoking collection that focused not on the rebel leaders, but on their wives and sweethearts." – The Sunday Business Post€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewSchubert: Four impromptus
Michael McHaleReleasesFranz Schubert's ever-popular Four Impromptus, Opus 90 presented in a totally new context, performed with rare sensitivity by Belfast-born pianist Michael McHale. "...a nuanced masterpiece..." – The Sunday Business Post "Spirited, well-shaped Schubert" – BBC Music Magazine€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewWhat is living and what is dead
Simon O'ConnorReleasesAn immaculately crafted, beautiful and poignant collection of nine piano pieces, Simon O'Connor's debut solo album is the result of over three years work from conception to release. "... an hour-long meditative, introspective work that … lounges in being hard to place … [E]xtended duration and emotional directness are key to the work’s effect.” – Liam Cagney, The Journal of Music ""...music that moves with a glacial pace interrupted by turbulent surges but always exuding a gentle, glowing warmth ... Belfast pianist Michael McHale plays with the utmost care for tonal detail and under-stated textural sophistication." – Michael Quinn, Classical Ear€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
Quickviewviolin:piano
Kevin VolansReleases"Immediately obvious in Kevin Volans’s hypnotic new chamber compendium is the conflicting tug and tumult of deep, dislocating emotional currents.... Performances by long-time Volans collaborators Waldo Alexander (violin/viola) and Jill Richards (piano) are beautifully modulated and full of glistening details. Excellent recorded sound." – Michael Quinn, classicalear.co.uk "...a composer who is too flexible to be locked into expectations..." – The Wire, December 2015€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewThe master’s return
Frankie Gavin, Malachy Bourke & Brian BourkeReleases€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewThe feeling of remembering
Christopher Fox & Anton LukoszeviezeReleasesA complementary CD (The feeling of remembering) and vinyl (re:play) set, this release presents beautifully introspective music for cello by English composer Christopher Fox, performed by Anton Lukoszevieze. "...a distinct flavour of distilled Elizabethan melancholia." – Philip Clark, The Wire€10.00 – €20.00 including taxes -
QuickviewRise up, my love
Irish Youth Chamber ChoirReleasesRise up, my love, the fresh and vital debut record from the Irish Youth Chamber Choir under their conductor Greg Beardsell, features music by contemporary choral masters Howard Skempton, Gabriel Jackson, Pēteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre. "A triumph" – Tim Thurston, Gloria, RTÉ lyric fm "...a musical calling card of consummate elegance..."– Michael Quinn, Classical Ear€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewA slender song
Seán Mac ErlaineReleasesReleased on limited edition, transparent orange vinyl, with stunning artwork by Craig Carry, woodwind instrumentalist and composer Seán Mac Erlaine’s second solo album is a place where haunting melodies are living, growing things, developing in sympathy with nuanced loops and fluttering particles of sound. “Mac Erlaine is an explorer at the frontiers of sound.” ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ — The Irish Times€10.00 – €20.00 including taxes -
QuickviewAll the Ends of the Earth
Ergodos MusiciansReleasesRevelatory, celebratory music by Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Linda Buckley inspired by Christmas music by a mediæval master, and performed by Ergodos Musicians: vocalist Michelle O'Rourke, clarinettist Jonathan Sage and cellist Kate Ellis, with Sholdice and Schlepper-Connolly on piano and guitar respectively. … [An] eloquent meditation … The mood is spiritual, perhaps, but hardly sectarian, with a warm bath production style taking full advantage of studio effects – I Care If You Listen Magazine€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewWhat was
Judith RingReleasesThe first release devoted entirely to the music of Judith Ring. Painterly, sensuous, dark and beautiful music from one of Ireland's most important composers, featuring performances from some of the finest exponents of new Irish music, including Paul Roe, Kate Ellis, Malachy Robinson, Michelle O'Rourke, Natasha Lohan and Concorde, as well as genre-crossing performers such as Laura Moody and Beau Stocker. … the Vinko Globokar-esque imaginings of composer Judith Ring … – I Care If You Listen Magazine€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewSongs
Ergodos MusiciansReleasesWorking closely with the members of Ergodos Musicians, composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly arrange, re-compose, weave and stitch material drawn from the songs they love, spanning over 800 years of music, from John Dowland and Vivaldi to Steve Earle, Richard Thompson and The xx. 'Nothing could better exemplify the continued vitality of the song tradition' ★★★★ 'CD Choice' – The Irish Times€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
Quickviewthere are neither wholes nor parts
Scott Mc LaughlinReleasesThe debut album from Scott McLaughlin, an Irish composer of immersive, experimental music, currently based in the UK. Immediately arresting and all-consuming, the album features highly focused performances by Quatour Bozzini, Trio Scordatura, Jonathan Sage, Iain Harrison, and the Metastable Collective. This album is a delivery system for concentrated listening [...] it comes highly recommended... – Stephen Graham, Tempo€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewLive at the Steeple Sessions
Toner Quinn & Malachy BourkeReleasesAppearing together for the first time in many years, fiddle duo Toner Quinn and Malachy Bourke performed Dublin's Unitarian Church in June 2011. This is a record of that concert – a document of two of Ireland's finest traditional musicians re-visiting and evolving a shared, highly personal language. 'A distilled delight' – The Irish Times€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewCounterpoint
ReleasesA captivating release by one of England’s finest young musicians, combining three different approaches to counterpoint, an elemental musical technique running through centuries of music. In every track Jonathan's playing is excellent [...] I found myself listening to [Another Country by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly] time after time. Excellent! – Kenneth Morris, Clarinet and Saxophone Society Magazine.€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewI Call to You
Ergodos MusiciansReleasesI Call to You is a record of music inspired by music by Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach, and performed by the Dublin-based group Ergodos Musicians. A project conceived in the darker moments of Ireland’s financial crisis, this is music that underlines a sense of hope, and renewal. ...perhaps the most important record of new Irish music released this year. ★★★★★ — RTÉ Ten ...characteristically intelligent, inquisitive and full of altogether beguiling sounds. With Baroque sensibilities left intact, the overall tone here is contemplative and quietly celebratory ... one of the year’s most beautiful and moving discs ★★★★★ — Classical Ear€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes -
QuickviewLong After the Music is Gone
Seán Mac ErlaineReleasesLong After the Music is Gone is the new solo album from Dublin-based woodwind instrumentalist and composer Seán Mac Erlaine. It's an album of extraordinary ambience, rich with Mac Erlaine's distinctive supple reed work and subtle electronics. With each track Mac Erlaine seems to channel the atmosphere of a space or vista, immersing us. An extraordinary solo recording... consistently one of the most interesting and adventurous musicians of his generation. ★★★★ — The Irish Times. Curiously lovely tunes... I want to hear everything that Seán Mac Erlaine’s ever done. Compliments don’t get much bigger. — Hot Press€10.00 – €20.00 including taxes -
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QuickviewStar
Maya Homburger & Barry GuyReleasesStar features three meditative string duos by Irish composers Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Garrett Sholdice and Simon O'Connor. These three works, each composed specifically for the incomparable Baroque violin/double bass duo of Maya Homburger and Barry Guy, are a reminder of the value of concentration, quietude, and slowness. Star is now available on limited edition vinyl.€10.00 – €20.00 including taxes -
QuickviewImmersia
Linda BuckleyReleasesImmersia is an EP of ambient electronica by Cork-born composer Linda Buckley. Each of the three tracks traverses the same territory, finding new contours, new plateaus.€10.00 including taxes… glacially majestic ... There are echoes of the band Tangerine Dream on this fascinating work by the Cork-born composer. – RTÉ Ten -
QuickviewDubh
Trio ScordaturaReleasesDubh is the debut album from Trio Scordatura and the first release on the Ergodos Records imprint. Dubh is about a certain generation of Irish composers, a generation that is finding its place between tradition and the modern world. A consistent atmosphere of slow-burning introspection prevails. "... a startling disc ... the nub of everything here is Trio Scordatura: an idiosyncratic voice, Harry Partch inspired-viola and MIDI keyboards. Whatever the approach or challenge set, this ensemble investigates with such thoroughness and panache so that each work sets one on a sonic adventure." – Bernard Clarke, cmc.ie€10.00 – €15.00 including taxes
