Flow by Sam Perkin
Louth Contemporary Music Society is delighted to release the first album Flow by Irish composer Sam Perkin.
Flow contains two tracks: Flow (2018) for string trio recorded by Mia Cooper, violin, Joachim Roewer, viola and William Butt, cello.
The composer said “As a sound meditation, the piece seeks to create a trance-like experience, both for the performer and for the listener; to enter into that space which we often call ‘the zone’, where magic is born in the air.”
Flow contains two tracks: Flow (2018) for string trio recorded by Mia Cooper, violin, Joachim Roewer, viola and William Butt, cello.
The composer said “As a sound meditation, the piece seeks to create a trance-like experience, both for the performer and for the listener; to enter into that space which we often call ‘the zone’, where magic is born in the air.”
The second work Suburban Distortion (2021) is an expansive work for 3 guitars on this recording all played by Sam Perkins.
The recording will be released on 10 December 2021 and features the artwork of Irish artist Mark Francis on the cover.
Available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.
Funded by the Arts Council
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Cantares de la Frontera
credits
Clíona Doris, Harp
- Recorded at
Echo Music Productions, Co. Louth
- Recorded by
Edward Holly
- Produced by
Clíona Doris, Edward Holly
- Mixed and Mastered:
Simon Kiln
- Executive Producer:
Eamonn Quinn
- release Date
June 2, 2021
- Funded by
the Arts Council and Create Lout
Peter Garland’s Cantares de la frontera (1986) are songs from the Mexico-U.S. border, gently afloat in their irregular repetitions and also in how the melodic drifts are not entirely tied to the wandering bass.
Clíona Doris continues with a short piece Deirdre McKay wrote for her in 2018: handwoven. The reference is clear: a harp is like a loom. As the composer puts it: ‘Focussed on the harp’s own workings, neat fingers weave, in close quarters, drawing out patternings.’ The patternings are repeated, or else they shift, always within the orbit of the busy stillness of G flat arpeggios that open the composition and recur. The five-flat key signature is the same as in the Peter Garland piece, and may remind us how borders bristle in Ireland as in the southern United States.
handwoven was commissioned by RTÉ Sunday Miscellany for their 50th anniversary celebrations at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in December 2018.
handwoven was written for, and premiered by, Clíona Doris.
