Spotify have added a track from Roger Doyle‘s new Heresy Records release on their influential Classical New Releases playlist.
The track, A Material Universe, from Act II of the electronic opera HERESY is track 25 of 50 in the playlist. It features Caitríona O’Leary on vocals.
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Two new album releases, A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland, an anthology of Irish electro-acoustic music and HERESY, an electronic opera by Roger Doyle will be launched at the Irish Arts Center in New York on February 20.
Heresy label founder Eric Fraad and composer Daniel Figgis will speak at the event.
Location:
IRISH ARTS CENTER
553 West 51st Street
New York City, 10019
Date & Time:
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
5:30pm until 7pm
A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland, Heresy’s sequel to the album On the Nature of Electricity & Acoustics, which was released in 2013 to international critical acclaim, adds another chapter to the story of Irish electro-acoustic music and demonstrates the vitality, originality and progressiveness of this much lauded and vibrant scene.
Featuring works by fourteen of Ireland’s most imaginative and talented artists/ensembles, A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland presents a diversity of styles from ‘shoegaze prescience’ through ‘contemporary classical’ to Nu-Prog and ambients.
A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland is available from March 02 to download and stream
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Miss Velvet and The Blue Wolf hit the road again with the legendary George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic on a 35 date tour all across the U.S.
Lostboi by Baby Raptors has recently been featured in IndieLondon, The Jack Plug, Eat This Music, Fame Magazine and Music Existence.
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The Huffington Post review Bad Get Some by Miss Velvet and The Blue Wolf and premiere the Dare video.
“Miss Velvet and The Blue Wolf are cap-a-pie prodigiously talented. The melodies are phenomenal, the rhythms are combustible and Miss Velvet’s voice contradicts the nonexistence of the phlogiston. Bad Get Some and “Dare” blew me away.”
Isotopia/Heresy debut indie funk rock band Miss Velvet and The Blue Wolf celebrate Halloween and their debut album release BAD GET SOME.
They the open for the legendary George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, NYC, on 31 October at the 2nd Annual Halloween Funkdown.
They continue to celebrate with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic on 3 November at The Howard Theatre, Washington DC.
Billboard #1 hit, THE WEXFORD CAROLS is now available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services for the first time.
Featuring Caitríona O’Leary, Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens & Producer Joe Henry, THE WEXFORD CAROLS is the first recording of Ireland’s greatest Christmas music.
A collection of 17th and 18th century Irish Christmas songs, mostly lost to history until recently. They have, for the first time, been recorded together by celebrated Irish singer Caitríona O’Leary along with a cast of American and UK Grammy winners including Sir Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens and producer Joe Henry.
The all-star band features celebrated musicians from the genres of folk, trad, rock, classical and jazz including, Dónal Lunny (Bouzouki), John Smith (Guitar, Mandolin & Vocals), Greg Cohen (Double Bass), Éamonn de Barra (Flute and Whistles), Adrian Hart (Fiddle), Kate Ellis (Cello), Graham Hopkins (Drums & Vocals), Mel Mercier (Percussion).
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This piece from Long Live Vinyl features acclaimed Brooklyn pop outfit, Baby Raptors. Their debut EP Strings is released on Heresy Record’s New York-based imprint, Isotopia Records.
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RTÉ Lyric fm – Ireland’s national broadcaster to air live performance of the opera on 3rd September
In December 2017, Heresy Records will release a new opera coincidently entitled, Heresy, by composer Roger Doyle. Heresy is based on the life and works of the martyred renaissance genius, cult hero, spy, playwright and visionary philosopher, Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for heresy in the year 1600 in the Campo dei Fiori in Rome.
Performed to international critical acclaim in November 2016 at Dublin’s Project Art Centre, Heresy features 5 singers and an electronic score that oscillates between a multiplicity of styles all merging into a profound and compelling musical dramatic experience.
A live performance of the opera will be broadcast on RTÉ Lyric fm at 8:00 pm GMT on Sunday September 3rd 2017. Online listeners can go to rte.ie/lyricfm and click on ‘Listen Live’.
The studio recording of Heresy, with additional compositions not heard in the live performance, will be released on Heresy Records in December 2017 and distributed worldwide by Naxos.
Baby Raptors 5 track debut EP on Isotopia Records launches June 7 at House of Yes in Brooklyn starring Baby Raptors with special guest, Yoyo star Gentry Stein.
To compliment the release, the Baby Raptors Augmented Reality Experience app is now available for iOS and Android. For exclusive Baby Raptors content – install the app on your device and aim the camera at the EPs front and back cover artwork.
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On Wednesday, 24 May International Literature Festival Dublin in association with IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, will present The Brecht Project: Songs From The Dark Times at the renowned Smock Alley Theatre.
Songs From The Dark Times is being conceived and directed by American theatre and opera director, Eric Fraad, with music direction by the celebrated Irish singer, Caitríona O’Leary.
The Irish language production imaginatively adapts monologues, scenes and poems written by the German poet/playwright Bertolt Brecht, and songs – and other musical works – written by Brecht and the composers Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler with the intention of drawing comparisons between the fascist regimes that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s, and the rise of right wing authoritarian governments today.
Smock Alley Theatre 1662
6-7 Exchange Street Lower
Temple Bar
Dublin 8
Ireland
Price: €10 / €8
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Singer: Caitríona O’Leary
Actors: Seán T Ó Meallaigh, Gearóid Ó Mordha
Dancers: Justine Doswell, Clodagh Farrell, Sarah Carey, Roisin Kearney
Keyboards: Josh Johnston
Saxophones, Percussion: Nick Roth
Clarinets: Deirdre O’Leary
Stage Direction: Eric Fraad
Music Direction: Caitríona O’Leary
Choreography: Justine Doswell,
Set & Lighting Design: Kevin McFadden
Costume Design: Monica Ennis
Projection Design: Margaret Lonergan
Irish Translations: Gabriel Rosenstock, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh
Producer: Liam Carson
Colleen Taylor’s article Christmas favourites old & new in The Irish Echo features THE WEXFORD CAROLS in a roundup of her Celtic Christmas favourites.
” This is an album that any Irish-American, any Irish person, and any lover of Irish history or music needs in their collection.”
“What could be more important at Christmas than an audible reminder of how music links us with the people, the stories, and the histories of centuries past?”
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Colleen Taylor of The Irish Echo reviews THE WEXFORD CAROLS.
“If not for the history, then you must at least listen to “The Wexford Carols” for its incredible, all-star transatlantic folk singer lineup. This group of creative minds and musical custodians is truly unprecedented in folk music.”
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