℗ 2020 NMC Recordings
Released | September 25, 2020 |
Duration | 1h 17m 41s |
Record Label | NMC Recordings |
Catalogue No. | NMCD258 |
Genre | Classical (Contemporary Era) |
From Ocean's Floor
Iarla Ó’lionáird, Crash Ensemble, Linda Buckley, Isabelle O’connell, Joby Burgess, Rté Contempo Quartet, Darragh Morgan
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
From Ocean's Floor
|
|||||
1.1
|
I. Gráinne Speaks of Diarmuit
Linda Buckley; Iarla Ó’lionáird; Crash Ensemble; Linda Buckley |
4:28 | |||
1.2
|
II. A Heart Made Full of Thought
Linda Buckley; Iarla Ó’lionáird; Crash Ensemble; Linda Buckley |
5:14 | |||
1.3
|
III. Sun and Moon
Linda Buckley; Iarla Ó’lionáird; Crash Ensemble; Linda Buckley |
6:11 | |||
1.4
|
IV. Entanglement
Linda Buckley; Iarla Ó’lionáird; Crash Ensemble; Linda Buckley |
5:53 | |||
1.5
|
Fridur
Linda Buckley; Isabelle O’connell; Linda Buckley |
12:02 | |||
1.6
|
Discordia
Linda Buckley; Joby Burgess; Linda Buckley |
11:17 | |||
1.7
|
Haza
Linda Buckley; Rté Contempo Quartet; Linda Buckley |
14:29 | |||
1.8
|
Kyrie
Linda Buckley; Linda Buckley |
9:50 | |||
1.9
|
Exploding Stars
Linda Buckley; Darragh Morgan; Linda Buckley |
8:17 | |||
Digital Booklet
|
Linda Buckley is an Irish composer who has written extensively for orchestra (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Sinfoniker, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra), and has a particular interest in merging her classical training with the worlds of post punk, folk and ambient electronica. She is 'one of the leading figures in the thriving Irish new music scene' (Christopher Fox, Tempo) with her work being described as 'strange and beautiful' (Richard Dyer, Boston Globe), 'fantastically brutal, reminiscent of the glitch music of acts such as Autechre' (Liam Cagney, Composing the Island) and 'engaging with an area of experience that new music is generally shy of, which, simplified and reduced to a single word, I'd call ecstasy' (Bob Gilmore, Journal of Music).
In Ó Íochtar Mara ("From Ocean's Floor"), the most substantial work on this album, Linda Buckley combines sean nós (an Irish ‘old style’ of elaborately ornamented solo singing) with string quartet and electronic drones. Iarla Ó Lionáird is one of the finest contemporary exponents of sean nós and the song-cycle is based upon Gaelic love poetry of love and loss, some dating back to the seventh century.
Discordia was commissioned by Joby Burgess for his Canna Sonora, an instrument assembled from tuned, vertical aluminium tubes that he strokes with rosin-impregnated gloves creating other-worldly sonorities. Also on the album is the shimmering, ethereal Exploding Stars for violin (Darragh Morgan) and electronics, Haza written for the ConTempo Quartet when Buckley was living in New York, the floating, glacial Fridur for piano (Isabelle O'Connell) and electronics, and the ambient, immersive Kyrie performed by the composer herself on vocals and electronics.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – NMC Recordings Studio Masters
Track 8 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit
Track 8 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.59 -8.84 to -1.00 | -23.02 -26.79 to -20.11 | -20.00 -24.30 to -16.90 | 11 10 to 13 | |
1 | I. Gráinne Speaks of Diarmuit | -5.55 | -25.19 | -21.9 | 10 |
2 | II. A Heart Made Full of Thought | -2.30 | -20.11 | -16.9 | 10 |
3 | III. Sun and Moon | -8.84 | -26.79 | -24.3 | 10 |
4 | IV. Entanglement | -5.27 | -23.78 | -21.0 | 11 |
5 | Fridur | -1.00 | -23.20 | -19.6 | 13 |
6 | Discordia | -4.41 | -22.10 | -19.5 | 11 |
7 | Haza | -1.00 | -22.67 | -19.3 | 13 |
8 | Kyrie | -2.82 | -20.90 | -18.3 | 11 |
9 | Exploding Stars | -1.12 | -22.43 | -19.2 | 12 |