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- Artist: SANKHARA
- Release Date: 2020-09-10
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
An album of original jazz compositions and jazz improvisations. Sankhara is a trio consisting of Joe O'Callaghan, Izumi Kimura and Derek Whyte.
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- Artist: Markus Strothmann
- Release Date: 2020-06-04
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Markus’s mother is originally from Westport and having family in Ireland it is a very special place to him. Inspired by his Irish roots, Markus instilled his compositions with an intriguing Celtic flavour. The deep atmosphere of his music evokes images of the rough Irish Sea, massive coastal lines and distant landscapes. Emerald Green.
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- Artist: Melanie O’Reilly
- Release Date: 2020-05-14
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
This collection features original songs and standards: from bossa nova to American roots and Irish vision song. Melanie takes the listener on a vocal journey through sweeping themes of romance, longing, and a sense of place.
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- Artist: The Eamonn Moran Trio
- Release Date: 2020-05-01
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
“Sunset With Her” is the debut album from The Eamonn Moran Trio. A Dublin based electric guitar trio playing original atmospheric improvised music. There is a retro 60s TV and Film theme running through the compositions with space for creative improvisational interplay. The band consists of three accomplished dynamic musicians: Eamonn Moran (Composer Guitarist), Derek Whyte (Electric bass) and Conor Murray (Drums). All tracks on the album were written by Eamonn Moran.
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- Artist: Shane Latimer
- Release Date: 2020-03-20
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
Shane Latimer is a musician from Dublin, Ireland. As guitarist and composer with OKO (“a revelation” - The Sunday Times) and or as curator with the Bottlenote Festival (“a no-holds-barred celebration of beautiful noise” - The Irish Times), his music has a focus on the improvisational and experimental. His latest solo work exists in the entangled space between the embodied and the embedded. Shane uses software to harvest information from guitar improvisations to feed an assemblage of electronic hardware. His new solo album 'Residuum' on Diatribe Records documents and expands upon this work.
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- Artist: ReDiviDeR
- Release Date: 2020-02-29
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
ReDiviDeR is a two-horns-no-chords quartet established by drummer Matthew Jacobson in 2007 as a creative outlet for his compositions as well as his somewhat perverse fascination with anagrams.
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- Artist: Karl Clews
- Release Date: 2020-01-08
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
Karl Clews is an experienced session and touring bassist. In recent years he has become known for his solo bass arrangements of popular tracks on YouTube, from current chart hits to jazz and funk classics and movie themes. 'I wanted to demonstrate the potential of the bass guitar - technology and playing styles have progressed so rapidly on the bass in recent years, the bass is no longer restricted to playing just the root notes in a band. It's now capable of playing melody and chords, and can even carry a whole piece on its own' says Karl. 'However, there's still an 'old-school' mentality among certain players and listeners who see and hear what I do and have no qualms about telling me I'm playing the bass 'wrong'. Hence the title of this collection of my originals, 'Dissident' - I see myself as one of a growing number of bassists who are fighting the established preconceptions of what a bass should sound like.'
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- Artist: Carole Nelson Trio
- Release Date: 2020-01-01
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
The Carole Nelson Trio's 2020 release was an All About Jazz magazine album of the year and one of the Irish Times best albums of 2020. With a strong focus on the environment Arboreal takes us on a trip through the woodlands of South Carlow
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- Artist: Raimonda Masiulytė-Ramchurn
- Release Date: 2019-12-20
- Album Type: EP
- Platforms: Artist Website, Apple Music
'Blue Moon'' - A new burst of vintage sound on the Irish music scene. Raimonda, with her femininity and velvety voice, has attracted the attention of eastern and northern European audiences before setting up in Ireland more than a decade ago.
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- Artist: Jennifer McMahon
- Release Date: 2019-11-09
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music
Part Of The Whole is the debut project from Jennifer McMahon. Written after the loss of her Father and the breakdown of a relationship, Part of The Whole is an homage to those loved and lost while simultaneously inviting us to move forward, with love. Recorded while Jennifer was a masters student at Berklee College of Music, Valencia, Spain in 2017, with fellow alumni. The album is for release on November 8th, 2019.
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- Artist: Zaska
- Release Date: 2019-02-01
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Max Zaska explains: "It's a concept album about community that parallels the birth of my first child with the birth of this album and the people that I needed to make both happen." This community includes more than 25 artists on the album drawn from the very best of Irish new music, including Wyvern Lingo, Loah, BARQ and members of Little Green Cars, Gypsies on the Autobahn, Super Silly, Come On Live Long, Booka Brass Band, and a host of in-demand session players.
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- Artist: Liv Monaghan
- Release Date: 2018-12-14
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Slow Exhale, through the medium of eight songs by Liv Monaghan, brings us on a meditative, reflective journey. Jazz in arrangement and approach, it incorporates elements of Folk, Soul and World music while retaining its Jazz features. Slow Exhale, is a paint-collage of sorts, with notes of gentleness, humour and innocence, set beside a haunting sense of longing, calling to mind the fragmented nature of life in all its joys and melancholy.
