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Tenth release in Diatribe Records Tronix series, featuring Bottlenote Festival artists guitarist Shane Latimer and turntabilist Djackulate. Stream below or download here at your chosen price.
Hearty thanks to y'all for checking out Bottlenote Festival 2011. Thanks to our funders The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, our venue Block T and the great musicians who made the music happen. Thanks!
Bottlenote Festival 2011 Announced!
October 20th, 21st, 22nd | Block T, Smithfield Square, Dublin 7 | 8pm til late | €10/8
The Bottlenote Festival, now in its third year, pairs together some of Ireland’s leading improvising musicians with their European counterparts for an intensive week of devising new music, rehearsals, workshops and three nights of new live music.
This year Bottlenote focuses on Berlin and has cherry picked two vital voices from the internationalised Berlin scene: acclaimed trumpter Tom Arthurs and the subversive Roy Carroll on computer. The festival will also feature performances by Irish artists Zoid, Shane Latimer, Djackulate, Justin Carroll, Shane O’Donovan, Seán Mac Erlaine and Phil McMullen.
Click on the Festival links on the right for full programme/festival information
The Bottlenote Festival is generously supported by The Arts Council
OKO at Kilkenny Arts Festival
OKO are the latest endeavour from adventurous guitarist Shane Latimer. Gathering some of the finest players on the Dublin jazz scene, OKO runs the gamut from delicately-sculpted, electro-acoustic shapes to gritty streetwise funk.
Drummer Shane O’Donovan provides the pulse, Darragh O’Kelly brings splashes of keyboard colour, and Djackulate is the free agent with the turntables, dropping beats and samples that keep the creative axis in constant movement.
Saturday 6 Aug 10pm | Cleere’s, Kilkenny City | €15 / 12 | Book online now or telephone 056 775 2175
This is How we Fly is a contemporary folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle & hardanger fiddle, Seán Mac Erlaine on bass clarinet, saxophones & live electronics, Nic Gareiss on percussive dance, and Petter Berndalen on drums and percussion.
They get together for three special July concerts, featuring new material
and old gems from the back catalogue...
Saturday 16 July, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland
8.30pm | €8 / €5 | Tickets: 097 81079
Sunday 17 July, An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
8pm | €15 / €10 | Tickets: 074 9120777 or online at www.eaf.ie
Wednesday 20 July, Airfield, Upper Kilmacud Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14
8pm, €16 / €14 | Tickets: 01 2984301 www.airfield.ie
Patrick Groenland Quartet+2 (Twin Peaks)
A once-off conglomeration of the Patrick Groenland Quartet with members
of the Bottlenote collective, who will be providing a live improvised
soundtrack to an episode of David Lynch's cult classic TV show Twin
Peaks.
Zoid (DJ Set)
ZoiD is a 1979 model DJ_T4000 robot currently based in Dublin Ireland,
where he battles jazz musician overlords daily in his quest for musical
emancipation.
Friday 20th May
Hello Operator, 12 Rutland Place, Dublin 1.
Doors: 8:30pm Adm:€7/5
Bottlenote LIVE
New compositions, grooves and sonic exploration from five unique improvising musicians.
Darragh O’Kelly, Ian McDonnell, Shane Latimer, Shane O’Donovan, Djackulate
Hello Operator, 12 Rutland Place, Dublin 1
Thursday 14th April 8:30pm
€8/€5 students
Shane O'Donovan new releases
FREE DOWNLOAD
Shane O'Donovan has just released the long awaited third and final part of his bottlenote series
plus a full length album containing 9 tracks written between 2000 and 2010.
Check them out at www.shaneodonovan.bandcamp.com
Morla + ConTempo String Quartet from Bottlenote Festival 2010, recorded live at Dublin's Peppercanister Church. Featuring Simon Jermyn - guitar, live electronics, composition; Seán Mac Erlaine - alto saxophone, live electronics, composition; ConTempo String Quartet: Bogdan Sofei - violin; Ingrid Nicola - violin; Andreea Banciu - viola; Adrian Mantu - cello
First Release "Green Times" by Roger Doyle, Eomac and ZoiD available now at www.diatriberecords.bandcamp.com
Shane O'Donovan new release - FREE DOWNLOAD
Shane O'Donovan has just released the second part of a three part part series of ambient works. You can download it for free at - www.shaneodonovan.bandcamp.com
Silencing slicy sloon by Seán Óg
Two new downloadable tracks. These were created in a bottlenote festival 10 session by Shane O'Donovan and Seán Óg in a two hour (friendly) tête-à-tête, where after sampling some drum kit and saxophone they set about making a track each in the time allowed. Here are the results.
The Festival is in full swing, check out the work in progress every day for free this week.
Hello Operator, 12 Rutland Place, Dublin 1. 6pm. Click here for directions
Bottlenote Festival ‘10
October Sunday 3rd – Saturday 9th 2010
Peppercanister Church, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin 2
Hello_Operator, 12 Rutland Place, Dublin 1
Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
The Bottlenote Festival ‘10 takes an immersive approach with a week long programme featuring enormous stylistic range from the slow motion electronics of Morla with string quartet to improvised pieces featuring an eight-strong cast of Ireland’s most daring musicians. Two major performances bookend a week of open rehearsals and daily free concerts giving a fascinating, behind the scenes insight into the collaborative process involved in this engaging art-form.
The festival opens with a special commissioned piece premiered at The Sligo New Music Festival and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 for Morla plus The ConTempo String Quartet in the lush surrounds of Dublin’s Peppercanister Church on Sunday 3rd October. From October 4th to 9th Bottlenote are musicians in residence in Hello_Operator, a beautiful new city centre art space boasting restored stone walls, wooden floor and rafters. Each day Bottlenote presents the musicians in different formations, with a free performance each evening at 6pm, showcasing the work prepared that day. The musicians will devise a ‘game-piece’ with rules for improvisation and gestural signals over the course of the week. This process culminates in a group concert on Saturday 9th October, presenting the game piece in action as well as compositions from members.
Bottlenote is a collective of some of Ireland’s most interesting musicians from the experimental jazz scene. Their activity over the past three years has cemented their reputation as leaders in their field of contemporary improvised music, presenting a diverse selection of musical activities through gallery-based concerts, festival performances at Cork Jazz Festival, Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, Sligo New Music Festival, Young Generation Jazz Berlin, Foligno Jazz Festival and The Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
Click here for full event listings (all tickets available at performance entry)
Four on The Fringe Of Folk
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Seán Óg, Petter Berndalen, Nic Gareiss
ABSOLUT Fringe Factory at The Grand Social, 35 Liffey St. Lwr (AKA Pravda)
Sat 18th September | 9pm | €16 | Book Now!
Four sonic explorers are bracing the edge of folk music in this extraordinary performance. With a reputation as one of Ireland’s most creative traditional musicians, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and his array of curious fiddles find new and wonderful soundscapes to traverse. Saxophonist Seán Óg also sits at a crossroads between free improvisation, folk and contemporary jazz, as assured voice ranging from the delicate to the brash. Petter Berndalen takes all the corners of Swedish fiddle music and grafts them onto his snare drum. And adding a whole other element to this gathering, Nic Gareiss incorporates footwork vocabulary from a multitude of step dance styles to create beautiful sounds & textures with his feet.
Shane O'Donovan new release - FREE DOWNLOAD
Shane O'Donovan has just released the first in a three part part series of ambient works. Each part will be released on a monthly basis and can be downloaded free of charge from his bandcamp page. www.shaneodonovan.bandcamp.com
If you missed The Bottlenote Festival 09, you can catch video highlights from four of the sets:
Seán Óg's Sem Som
Simon Jermyn's UpDog
Shane Latimer's Oblong
Justin Carroll's Octopus
THE TRAILER OF BRIDGET DINNIGAN
Set on a present day halting site The Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan follows matriarch Bridget and her family in the period after her husband's death. Fiercely protective, Bridget will stop at nothing to ensure that her family's reputation remains intact. Tensions rise when the eldest daughter announces her engagement and family secrets are revealed, which lead to tragic consequences.
This contemporary adaptation of the Spanish classic The House of Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca, is the result of two years of research and collaboration between theatre-maker/writer Dylan Tighe, Traveller activist Catherine Joyce and eleven women from the Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group. Sound design by Seán Óg.
17 - 19 JUN 2010 | €20/18
Preview, 16 June 2010, €15
Seán Óg's Sacred Chants //
Live at Sligo New Music Festival
MANTRUM
Five grown men throw a tantrum while playing new music. A new collaborative project between musicians from Sweden and Ireland. Kindly supported by the Improvised Music Company. See concerts page for tour dates
Thomas Backman (alto saxophone, clarinet)
Nils Berg (flute, tenor saxophone, bassclarinet)
Shane Latimer (guitar)
Cormac O'Brien (doublebass)
Shane O'Donovan (drumkit)
Wednesday 20th:: Glenn Miller Cafe :: Stockholm :: 90kr/60kr/30kr
Thursday 21st:: Glenn Miller Cafe :: Stockholm :: 90kr/60kr/30kr
Friday 22nd:: Campbell's Tavern :: Headford, Co. Galway :: €10
Sunday 24th:: JJ Smyth's :: Aungier St., Dublin 2 :: €10/€8
Sean Og / Shane Latimer Duo - live footage
Bray Jazz Festival - Seán Óg Solo + Justin Carroll Solo
Town Hall, Saturday 1st May, 6.30pm, €10
Two of the most compelling and interesting performers in contemporary Irish jazz and improvised music team up for what is certain to be a fascinating exploration of sound.
"[Seán Óg's] pieces are highly original, creative, packed with incident and show a determination to avoid any hint of the clichéd or the safe." - The Irish Times
"Carroll develops complex lines – and rhythmic and harmonic opportunities with considerable ingenuity and imagination" - The Irish Times
Sligo New Music Festival
Morla,
Seán Óg,
Simon Jermyn and
The Smith Quartet -