Releases

 

Doubles
Cian Nugent
VHF Records. 2011 LP, CD, digital

"His tunes are sturdy and lovely things... Mighty good." - The Wire.
"An ambitious but unquestionably rewarding record – and one crucially devoid of pretension, too." - The Irish Times, 4 stars. Available now here

 

 

 

Dublin's Future: New Visions for Ireland's Capital City

Edited by Lorcan Sirr. October 2011. Published by The Liffey Press

A collection of essays which for the first time recognises that the future of the island’s largest and most important urban conurbation is about more than the engineering of roads and the colouring of development plans. Music, literature, housing, ethnic minorities, theatre, energy, and much more all have their role to play in making and sustaining Dublin as firstly Ireland’s premier city and economic engine, and secondly as a place where people will want to live, visit, do business, be educated, create, spend, be cared for, be employed in, and in which to age.

 

 

A Shatner Observatory
United Bible Studies
Perhaps Transparent Records. March 2010

Available now here: http://www.perhapstransparentrecords.com/2010/03/05/pre-order-united-bible-studies-a-shatner-observatory-cdr/

 

 

The Soup & The Shilling
The Magickal Folk Of The Faraway Tree
Deadslackstring/Deserted Village split release. February 2010

The Long-awaited, long-whispered about Magickal Folk Of The Faraway Tree album has finally arrived. Those of you who have been asking for a reissue for a Double CD including reissue of The Mildew Leaf and The Cat's Melodeon plus all new recordings, further exploring the Peter Kennedy songbook and beyond.

 

Breathing Time
Seán Óg's Trihornophone
Diatribe Recordings

By turns playful and colourful, virtuostic and complex, this album does that rare thing of balancing uncompromising improvised music with an openness and accessibility which crosses the usual divides between serious new music and exploratory pop music.

"[Trihornophone] are a fascinating group, with an old-time feel and a contemporary freedom to handle rhythm and harmony, judiciously mixed with rigorously scored ensembles whose use seems as likely cued as pre-determined. Seán Óg's settings, so packed with ideas, show a determination to shun the obvious and familiar at almost any price, but their wit, invention and the sheer warmth of what is a very together band are palpable." - The Irish Times

 

Calling
Dorothy Murphy
Improvised Music Company [September 2007]

Dorothy Murphy - vocals / composition. Seán Óg - saxophones / producer. Tommy Halferty - guitar. Dermot Dunne - accordian. Anne-Marie O'Farrell - harp. Kate Ellis - cello. Clare Fitch - cello. Cormac OBrien - double bass. Seán Carpio - drums. Philip MacMullan - drums. "Dorothy Murphy is another act who avoids the obvious... Murphy's Bjorkian voice a perfect foil for the modernistic instrumental backing. All told, this is a work that repays repeated listening, on a jazz album that tries harder to communicate than merely show off." - Hot Press.

 

The Garbled Message
Seán Óg
Humbug Records, Norway

Suite for woodwinds, invented instruments & prepared piano.

 

 

 

Way Out West
V/A: (Trihornophone, Morla, Circleways)
Improvised Music Company / The Journal of Music

Supported by Culture Ireland, Way Out West provides emphatic evidence of creative industry and intent in jazz from Ireland, and this CD will play its part in bringing the Irish jazz message to festivals, venues and clubs worldwide, generating opportunity for Irish artists from Boston to Berlin

 

 

Unevenings...
Seán Óg:
Foxy Digitalis CDr 2004

Improvisations for solo prepared piano. "This unedited recording gives the listener a sense of being at the scene, hearing events as they unfold. the essence of the small dublin street on which óg lives is heard throughout. and at one point, he removed the hammers from the piano and played the carcass like a giant harp using mallets. this is truly innovative work."

 

The Arboreal Observatory
United Bible Studies:
Humbug - 12" lathe cut

The third in an instrumental Observatory series. The beautiful arboreal photos are provided by Kate Nolan and Aaron Coyne. It's a mixture of composed and improvised live and studio tracks from various years.
Available now from www.desertedvillage.com

 

Very Little is Weightless
Seán Óg:
Deserted Village - CDr [2004 - Out Of Print]

Recorded during the winter of 2003 in a basement studio in Dublin city, the album offers a strange yet inviting mixture; broken melodic snatches played off rumbling static fields, saxophone lines hovering over brittle, bouncing odd-meter grooves or the unexpected song-form of Heaven Remade.

Trumpophone, glockenspiel, tenor and soprano saxophones, autoharp, synthesisers, guitar, percussion, no-input-desk, piano and flute.

 

Habit of Energy
Oldsquarelines:
Jazz on the Terrace - CD

"The quintet – Seán Óg (alto/soprano/flute), Daniel Jacobson (guitar), Greg Felton (piano), Dave Redmond (bass) and Seán Carpio (drums) – is filled with some of the finest young talent on the Irish jazz scene, and it showed in the constantly challenging and richly varied repertoire they performed" - The Irish Times.