CD - housed in gatefold card case with booklet. A compilation of Avant Garde music from artists working in non-studio settings experimenting with tapes and handmade instruments presnted for the first time in a collection spanning over four decades.
After two years of digging, hunting, unearthing archives, digitising and a lot of correspondence, Nyahh Records is very excited to finally be announcing the release of ‘Under the Island: A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 – 1994’. Ireland, a country known mostly in the pop music arena for U2, Thin Lizzy, Stiff Little Fingers et al and of course, the Show Band era of the 60s’ to the present, the country is not known for producing a lot of ‘cutting edge, Avant Garde music. A few very influential bands did get out such as Doctor Strangley Strange (1967 – 1971), Mellow Candle (1965 - 1973), Princess Tinymeat (1984 – 1987) and the Virgin Prunes (1977 – 1991). A strange bunch for sure, and where would we be without them. But, further down underground there were a few artists working away in their bedrooms and non-studio settings experimenting with tapes and handmade instruments. Here for the first time is a collection of these artists and their work. Sounds that had been left in boxes on tape or cassette have now been cleaned up and presented together in a collection spanning over four decades.
Tracklist:
1. Desmond Leslie - Esoteric Sound Poem (1960) [06:34]
2. Roger Doyle - Tape Piece One (1971) [08:07]
3. David Cunningham - UI 58 (1976) [06:17]
4. Sean O'hUiginn - Flostic (1977) [03:11]
5. Daniel Figgis - "Look! I'm Running!" (1977) [01:58]
6. Nigel Rolfe - Lake Waters of Sorrow (1979) [03:14]
7. Noel Molloy - Ashes to Ashes. Excerpt (1980) [01:56]
8. Olwen Fouéré – The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow Excerpt (1986) [03:16]
9. Danny McCarthy – Music for an Electric Hurling Stick (late 80's) [03:16]
10. Giordai Ua Laoghaire – An Pocaide (1989) [02:17]
11. Fergus Kelly – Foreign Bodies (1991) [06:40]
12. The Shit – Little Geography (1992) [01:59]
13. Burning Love Jumpsuit – Praise the Eye of Satan (1994) [06:00]
14. John Carson & Conor Kelly – Evening Echoes (’93 – ’95) [07:00]