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Nikos Veliotis - Folklor Invalid (2.30 min, excerpt) from "Folklor Invalid" CD

Sagaraki from Mohammad - "Segondè Saleco" (CD/LP) featuring Erifyli Giannakopoulou on vocals. www.antifrost.gr / www.mohammad.gr

Mohammad - "Sagaraki" from "Segondè Saleco" LP/CD

Canto

Desolation Sound

Litania - Music Of Krzysztof Komeda

Svantetic

Selected Signs, I - An ECM Anthology

Hyperborean / Patch Of Light

In Full Cry

Motherless Child

Circa

Siegfried And Roy

Crystal Silence

Falling Grace

RE: ECM

Reblop

Nothing Ever Was, Anyway. Music Of Annette Peacock

Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (Version 1)

Purchase "Enclosures" from Ergodos:
http://ergodos.ie/shop/records/enclosures

Written between 2008 and 2013, this record is a treasury of chamber music highlighting Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz’ fastidious artistic mind. These works all possess seductive surfaces, but their extremely careful designs make for profound, even revelatory experiences. 

‘His work is abstract music of a high order, reanimating the mediaeval idea of music as applied number,’ wrote the late writer and performer Bob Gilmore, to whose memory this record is dedicated. ‘But the questions it asks are defiantly of the twenty-first century, questions about musical perception, about the nature of sound and the passage of time.’

Attachments, written for pianist Saskia Lankhoorn, carefully explores and exploits different sonic aspects of a specially-prepared piano. Supple rhythmic patterns are back-lit by droning sine tones to create redolent atmospheres, gently flickering and undulating. 

Phrase and Fraction were composed as companion pieces for the Hague-based Ensemble Klang. The former is nearly hallucinatory in its singular treatment of a melody on soprano saxophone. The latter – a fervent world of stummed, picked and hammered metal strings – takes after American composer Henry Cowell’s harmonic tempo scales, where the music’s speed is intertwined with the intervals of the harmony.

The record finishes with Enclosures, composed for Amsterdam microtonal music specialists, Trio Scordatura. Over time we become attuned to the most subtle gradations of sonic interval – we are deeply immersed, and emerge newly sensitised. 

Peter Adriaansz  (pronounced ‘pay-ter ah-dree-ons’) was born in Seattle in 1966 and studied composition at the conservatories of The Hague and Rotterdam, where his teachers included Louis Andriessen, Brian Ferneyhough and Peter-Jan Wagemans. Adriaansz’ work can be characterized by a systematic, research-oriented approach towards music. An approach in which sound, structure and audible mathematics constitute the main ingredients. Starting in 2005 an increasing interest in flexibility, variable forms and – especially – microtonal reflection can also be observed in his work. This latter interest led, among other works, to several large-scale compositions for amplified ensembles, such as Prana (2007), Three Vertical Swells (2010) and Scala II (2014), works for orchestra (Verdichtingen, 2009, Rising & Falling, 2013), music theater (Comfortzone, 2015), two extended series, on spatial harmony (Structures I-XVI, 2005) and microacoustics (Waves 1-13, 2008) and many (electro-) acoustic works for incidental commissions.


Attachments III

There is an Island were on Blue of the Night with Carl Corcoran on 21 November 2016 in advance of a performance in the Santa Rita Concerts at the Little Museum of Dublin on Wednesday.

Listen to the full show: http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/the-blue-of-the-night-with-carl-corcoran/#2337520

There is an Island on Blue of the Night (21 November 2016)

Fabiano Araujo - piano
Arild Andersen - ac. bass/live sampling
Nana Vasconcelos- berimbau

Fabiano Araujo/Arild Andersen/Nana Vasconcelos - Yã

A song after the poetry of Francis Ledwidge by There is an Island. 
Commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre in 2017.
www.ergodos.ie/there-is-an-island

He Does Not Pass

re-worked version of the 2011 piece, -originally released on "Spiriti"- for piano and sine waves.  Released on Antifrost: afro2076 cassette, February 2018

MMMD - "Neporiniai Kakaowa" (laubak)  from "Andromache" cassette

Horse-drawn Thoughts

"The Melting Song" is from Seán Mac Erlaine's new album "Music for Empty Ears", which is released on 25 May 2018 and is now available to pre-order here: 
https://ergodos.ie/shop/releases/music-for-empty-ears/

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Seán Mac Erlaine’s richly-textured woodwind sound meets an expanded palette on Music for Empty Ears, the Irish musician’s breathtaking new album. Having honed his distinctively-shaped soliloquies over his first two solo records, Mac Erlaine’s work now bears the mark of collaborations with Norwegian luminaries Jan Bang and Eivind Aarset to reveal a fresh, variegated musical language.



The album journeys through a splendour of musical shades: from the gently insistent minimal grooves and hushed invocations of tracks such as ‘The Melting Song’; to slow pans across dark, saturated vistas on tracks such as ‘Winter Flat Map’; to a warm, celebratory treatment of the Irish traditional tune ‘An Buachaill Caol Dubh’; and to moments of visceral, splintered abstraction in ‘Shake and Sigh’ and ‘The Alchemist III’.

Whether it’s the elusive vocals of Galway singer Sadhbh Ní Dhálaigh or Mac Erlaine’s sublime clarinet melodies that catch you, Music for Empty Ears is an album that reveals more and more with each listen. And, with a bespoke print by Dublin design studio Destinctive Repetition, the heavyweight vinyl of Music for Empty Ears is a beautiful and sumptious object to hold as much as to hear.

Seán Mac Erlaine is a Dublin-based woodwind instrumentalist, composer and music producer, recognised as one of Ireland’s most forward-thinking creative musicians. Mac Erlaine works in a variety of settings from free improvisation, contemporary jazz, folk music and experimental theatre, and is a member of the groups This is How We Fly and the Quiet Music Ensemble. “One of the most interesting and adventurous musicians of his generation” – The Irish Times

Electronic musician/producer Jan Bang has worked with such luminaries as Jon Hassell, David Sylvian, Brian Eno, and Arve Henriksen. From his work as a pop producer in the 90s, his pioneering work in developing the concept of live remix has led to him being constantly in-demand as producer and performer today. “[Jan Bang is] defying all misconceptions about the vast potential of electronic composition.” – All About Jazz

Eivind Aarset is a guitarist with a unique musical vision that absorbs and reflects all manner of music while retaining an enviable individualism and high quality craftsmanship that can span from quiet intimacy to searing intensity. As one of Norway’s most in-demand guitarists, Eivind Aarset has worked with Jon Hassell, David Sylvian, Bill Laswell, Jan Garbarek and many more. “Norwegian Eivind Aarset is in a class of his own proving that lyricism and raw noise aren’t contradictory.” – The Guardian

The Melting Song

anouar brahem - oud
jan garbarek - saxophone
manu katché - drums

ecmrecords.com

Anouar Brahem, Jan Garbarek, Manu Katché - Live at Jazzfestival, Frankfurt

1991.May.31 Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Manu Katche,
Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt, HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, Germany

Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Manu Katche

Midday Prayers, for clarinet, soprano & 19 players

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