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.”

This CD, the first in a new promotional series, presents 11 works by a range of Irish composers performed by a diverse range of international and Irish performers. Funded by Culture Ireland, the series aims to showcase the current work of Irish composers, taking the listener on a journey into the vibrant world of new Irish music.

This new release from Roger Doyle is explained as ‘Explorations in imagined world musics - past, present and future.’ It includes the composer on software instruments and production, Nick Roth on Turkish Mey and soprano saxophone and vocalists Olesya Zdorovetska, Ahmad Alkaran and Gavin Jones.