Seán Mac Erlaine is a Dublin-based reed player, composer and electronic musician who has released two solo albums to date, Long after the Music is Gone (2012) and A Slender Song (2014), both on the Ergodos record label. He is also a master improviser who thrives on eclectic and multi-disciplinary collaborations. Over the years, ... [Continue Reading]
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Martin Hayes Quartet: The Blue Room
In a musical context, the word "quartet" can point to a small group of four classical performers as in a string, a baroque, a wind, a vocal or a piano quartet. It can also refer to a small jazz ensemble consisting of a horn, a chordal instrument, a bass instrument and a drum kit. Released on 251 Records on 27 October 2017 last, ... [Continue Reading]
This is How we Fly: Foreign Fields
Formed in 2010 and featuring The Gloaming's Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (Hardanger d’Amore), Seán Mac Erlaine (clarinets & electronics), Nic Gareiss (percussive dance) and Petter Berndalen (drums), This is How We Fly is a contemporary folk group sometimes venturing into jazz and electronica whose centre of gravity lies somewhere ... [Continue Reading]
Ensemble Ériu: Stargazer
In 2014, the Model Arts Centre in Sligo commissioned Irish contemporary traditional septet Ensemble Ériu to write new music during a two week residency. The Model is home to the Niland Collection which includes 42 paintings by Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats (1871 - 1957). Composed as a response to the paintings held there and ... [Continue Reading]
Cuar: Roscanna
In approaching our vocal music, that style of singing traditional songs which is called in Irish the “sean-nós” - the “old style” - it is best to listen as if we were listening to music for the first time, with a child’s new mind; or to think of Indian Music rather than European. - Seán Ó Riada - Our musical heritage ... [Continue Reading]
Seán Mac Erlaine: A Slender Song
Currently involved in a multitude of projects - with contemporary folk band This Is How We Fly or with Cork-based experimental group Quiet Music Ensemble among others - Dublin-based woodwind instrumentalist Seán Mac Erlaine has also been devoting himself to improvisation and solo performance since 2006. Playing a wide array of ... [Continue Reading]
Samaris: Silkidrangar
Formed in 2011 in Reykjavik, Samaris is an electronic music trio of young musicians still in their early twenties blending haunting vocals (Jófríður Ákadóttir) with electronics (Þórður Kári Steinþórsson) and acoustic clarinet (Áslaug Brún Magnúsdóttir). After two self-released EPs in 2011 and 2012 later compiled into a first ... [Continue Reading]