Amhrán na mBeach (Song of the Bees) [excerpt] from Mikael Fernström on Vimeo.

This is a limited edition artefact, designed by Softday, containing video, audio and text from their Amhrán na mBeach project. Based on four years of scientific data about bee diseases and colony losses in Ireland, Softday created a work for the Glenstal Abbey Choir, organ and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. A sound art composition was also created by the Softday Apiary Ensemble, based on field recordings carried out by the participating beekeepers in their respective habitats.

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.

Ergodos Musicians perform music by Irish composers Garrett Sholdice, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Jonathan Nangle and Simon O’Connor, composed after Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ chorale prelude ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’.

Cellist Kate Ellis features on this CD from the Diatribe Solo Series II, performing a selection of works for solo cello and electronics by Irish composers Niall Vallely, Enda Bates, Laura Sheeran, Linda Buckley and an arrangement by Donnacha Dennehy.