Piano

The third album from Gabrielle Aplin, Dear Happy, is a beautiful record from the English songstress. ‘Until The Sun Comes Up’ opens the album with a poetic introduction. Aplin offers deep lyrics and emotive vocals, as she sings, “do you…

Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers, the new record from Binker Golding, is a piece of art. 'I Forgot Santa Monica' — my, my, this is how you open an album, the melodies and grooves on display here are infectious. The…

The Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) have just released a new recording called ‘Four Thousand Holes’. The piece was composed by John Luther Adams and is based upon the iconic Beatles song ‘A day in the Life’. The society’s director…

Conor Walsh once wrote to me, “All I give a shit about is family and my music. I get lots of satisfaction from my music, but I have at least one day a week where I hate it.  Recently my mother has stopped suggesting I become a teacher, so…

“I believe that all people are in possession of what might be called a universal musical mind. Any true music speaks with this universal mind to the universal mind in all people. The understanding that results will vary insofar as people…

Season of Mists came about as something of a compositional challenge that Variant Sea set themselves to complete in under a month. Pianist Luke Duffy and guitarist Shell Dooley took what started as a side project and evolved into their…