Ergodos is delighted to announce the release of Long After The Music Is Gone, the new album from Dublin-based woodwind instrumentalist and composer Seán Mac Erlaine. Its an album of extraordinary ambience, rich with Mac Erlaine's distinctive supple reed work and subtle electronics. With each track Mac Erlaine seems to channel the atmosphere of a space or vista, immersing us.
Conceived and recorded in rural Leitrim, Long After The Music Is Gone stands as a meditation on Irish landscape, dipping into the chants of Medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen and the work of Irish philosopher John O'Donoghue. It's all in the blood of this record, assimilated into a language of rare elegance and originality.
Seán Mac Erlaine is recognised as one of Ireland's most forward-thinking jazz musicians. Mac Erlaine works in a variety of settings maintaining a busy performance schedule in Ireland and internationally, working in free improvisation, contemporary jazz, folk music and experimental theatre. He performs with a hugely diverse range of musicians and artists, reflecting his own versatility and interest in cross-platform work — recent collaborators have included Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, This is How we Fly and Donal Dineen.
An encouraging example of the spirit of innovation current in Irish contemporary music
— The Journal of Music
One of the most original voices on the Dublin scene
— The Sunday Tribune
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Long After the Music is Gone,
released August 16, 2012
Recorded July 2011 in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, Ireland.
Performed, arranged and composed by Seán Mac Erlaine.
Mixed by Liam Grant & Seán Mac Erlaine. Mastered by Liam Grant, Dublin, May 2012.
Artwork by Dominic Thorpe taken from the work ‘Buried Clay Sugar’ 2010 (Wicklow County Collection). Design by Seán Mac Erlaine.
This recording is presented with funding from the Music Network /
Arts Council Music Recording Scheme 2010.