In 2009, the Louth Contemporary Music Society record label released its first album, A Place Between. Each track was distinct, with its own composer, soundworld, luminensce, and it unquestionably made an impression on me. But the album also had its own unified form: an unmistakable path leading deep into the Arctic quietude of Henryk Górecki’s Good Night, and emerging into John Cage’s In a Landscape.
In Search of the Miraculous, released some four years later, is not dissimilar in its blending of discrete elements to form a whole. A brooding groove for strings by the Lebanese Rabih Abou-Khalil sits beside a koan for solo piano by Armenian-American Alan Hovhaness; a deliberate, dancing guitar duo by Turkish composer Fazil Say is juxtaposed against a piano miniature by Siobhán Cleary, evoking both the English Baroque and 1960s New York jazz…..
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