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Concert Review: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet – Works Commissioned for Seamus Heaney's 70 Birthday
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin / 3 April 2009
Live: Kevin Volans
(percussion)Project...
Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M
Café Oto, London9–11 March 2009Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M’s three-day residency at Café Oto featured them in solo and duo performances, in addition to group improvisations alongside musicians such as Eddie Prévost, Christian...
Ergodos Festival
Gamelan Sekar Petak, Neil Sorrell (director); The Gong Agenda; Michelle O’Rourke (soprano); Salil Sachdev (metal bowl, djembe, hang); Joe Browning (shakuhachi), Jonathan Sage (clarinet); Linda Buckley (voice)
National Concert Hall, Dublin, 18–19 April 2009.
The Quiet Club / Danny McCarthy
Tesla/ LISTEN hEAR Farpoint RecordingsThe brilliance of the Quiet Club, the Cork-based ‘entity’ of Danny McCarthy and Mick O’Shea, is best apprehended live. Their CD, Tesla, is fascinating and enjoyable, but all the more so after watching...