Volume Ten in the promotional series produced by the Contemporary Music Centre showcasing a selection of the latest music from Irish composers. Funded by Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the disc features a diverse array of works performed by renowned performers and ensembles.

Personal answering-machine messages from the 1980’s become “intimate verbal time capsules” in Roger Doyle’s latest work, Chalant - Memento Mori, released on Psychonavigation Records. These spoken segments combined with Doyle’s original instrumental compositions evoke “a world of an ancient race memory, giving a hint of exotic imagined cultures.”

Piers Hellawell makes his debut on Delphian Records with a diverse programme of premiere recordings. With sources of inspiration ranging from the self-immolation of Jan Palac to the lost Etruscan language and the sculptures of abstract expressionist David Smith, the full breadth and depth of Hellawell’s compositional preoccupations are represented in authoritative performances by some of his closest collaborators.

Now available to preorder in advance of release on 21st May.

‘Still Life in Green and Red’ is a work by Ian Wilson for string quartet and soundtrack composed in 2011 as part of Mayo County Council's Landmark Public Art programme. The work is performed by the ConTempo String Quartet and the recorded soundtrack, which was realised by Stephen McCourt, is made from interviews which Wilson recorded as part of the residency in Mayo.