GARETH QUINN REDMOND - Ar Ais Arís - LP - Vinyl [APR 7]

LP - Limited Edition Black Vinyl. Only 500 copies pressed. With artwork by Dublin artist Barry Gibbons and liner notes from Gareth Quinn Redmond himself.

Ar Ais Arís, the third album by Irish producer Gareth Quinn Redmond, following his amazing Satoshi Ashikawa-inspired Laistigh Den Ghleo released in 2019 and this year’s ambient-meets-Irish-traditional-music soundscape Umcheol. The 8-track LP comes as a limited edition of 500 copies worldwide with artwork by Dublin artist Barry Gibbons and liner notes from Gareth Quinn Redmond himself.

Ar Ais Arís is Gareth Quinn Redmond’s fortuitous love affair with the art of tape loops - a practice he discovered while performing with Ross Chaney and Myles O’Reilly in late November 2020. Fascinated, he spent months experimenting with the technique: By cracking open the shell of a cassette, cutting the tape and splicing the ends together, I created repeating sound loops of varying lengths. After reassembling and slotting the cassette into the Tascam Portastudio, I recorded and played back the sounds of the tape loop.

These sounds were then manipulated using the pitch wheel to make subtle and warbly inflections to the recordings. This is achieved by speeding up or slowing down the playback speed of the tape, which offers dynamic contrasts in both mood and texture.

The result is 8 deliciously enchanting minimalistic tape loops creating a very rare kind of daydreaming environmental music full of accidental miracles and dusty soothing backdrops. It’s a very very very pleasant listening experience inspiring a feeling of enveloping warmth and gentle coziness, with an uncanny touch of spellbinding magic. 

Tracklist:

A1. Ar Ais Arìs
A2. Tréimhse Chiúin
A3. Sobhriste
A4. Le Stealladh Báistí

B1. Faoiseamh Soiléire
B2. An tAistear
B3. Muiníneach
B4. Le Sruth