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Farpoint Recordings, Dún Laoghaire (2025)

29/08/2025

We hope your summer is sounding as good as it feels! Great news for lovers of adventurous music → Volume Records has just restocked some of our most loved back catalogue Vinyl and CD releases including:

– The Quiet Club (Mick O'Shea & Danny McCarthy)
– Quiet Music Ensemble
– Cora Venus Lunny
– John McLachlan
– David Bremner
– Anthony Kelly
– David Stalling
– Izumi Kimura
– Sonic Vigil 6
– Ian Wilson

If you haven’t been yet, Volume Records is a gem of an independent record shop in the heart of Dun Laoghaire - packed with amazing finds, passionate music vibes, and of course, great conversation with Neil the owner.

Dun Laoghaire's favourite independent record label → Farpoint Recordings

Dun Laoghaire's favourite independent record shop → Volume Records

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05/06/2025

A big thank you to RTÉ Culture and John Godfrey of Quiet Music Ensemble for speaking so highly of Farpoint Recordings in this article!

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0605/1515241-a-truly-interdisciplinary-sonic-art-quiet-music-ensemble-at-10/

19/05/2025

Moon Phases and The Mysteries Beyond Matter (2025 tenth anniversary remaster) by Quiet Music Ensemble - new digital albums arriving 21st May!

Plus a Digital Boxset containing all five QME albums!

We are delighted to announce two great new releases from Quiet Music Ensemble - Moon Phases and The Mysteries Beyond Matter (2025 remaster). Moon Phases features a 49 minute work by Francis Heery and concludes a series of four new releases begun in 2024. All the QME albums (Moon Phases; snow piled in a silver bowl; sour, shiny, glinting, shuddering; whole body like a mouth and The Mysteries Beyond Matter remastered edition) are available separately, and together as a specially priced digital boxset.

It's hard to believe The Mysteries Beyond Matter celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2025! To mark this special occasion there will be a beautiful new digital remaster by Seán MacErlaine. This version of the album is included in the aforementioned Quiet Music Ensemble Digital Boxset as well as bundled with the Moon Phases digital album.

All packages will be available in our Bandcamp Shop from the 21st May!

20/02/2025

Out now, a wonderful new album release by Quiet Music Ensemble available from Farpoint Recordings!

snow piled in a silver bowl
by Quiet Music Ensemble

You can listen and purchase here:
https://quietmusicensemble.bandcamp.com/album/snow-piled-in-a-silver-bowl

Kathy Hinde - Acts of Balancing and Unbalancing 20’21”
Anna Murray - Aioi: leaves laden with words 20’07”
Christopher Fox - qui/nt/et 11’22”
Rishin Singh - grisaille no.1 23’46”
Susan Geaney - Vacuum 07’36”

snow piled in a silver bowl features works by Kathy Hinde, Anna Murray, Christopher Fox, Risin Singh and Susan Geaney. From floating harmonic textures to gentle emptinesses, from deep drone to abstract noise, this is an album that visits distinct sonic worlds brought together by QME’s unique, entrancing aesthetic. The album explores the spirit of Noh theatre, just-tuned harmonies inspired by James Tenney, especially built instruments, deep purrs and fragile, vulnerable sonorities, each piece a unique contemplation.

Digital album with pdf booklet and unlimited streaming available from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp shop.

Quiet Music Ensemble
Seán Mac Erlaine, clarinets and objects
Roddy O’Keeffe, trombone and objects
John Godfrey, electric guitar, electronics and objects
Ilse De Ziah, cello and objects
Dan Bodwell, double bass and objects

13/02/2025

NEW! snow piled in a silver bowl by Quiet Music Ensemble

We are delighted to announce news of a wonderful new album by Quiet Music Ensemble available from Farpoint Recordings on the 20th February!

snow piled in a silver bowl features works by Kathy Hinde, Anna Murray, Christopher Fox, Risin Singh and Susan Geaney. From floating harmonic textures to gentle emptinesses, from deep drone to abstract noise, this is an album that visits distinct sonic worlds brought together by QME’s unique, entrancing aesthetic. The album explores the spirit of Noh theatre, just-tuned harmonies inspired by James Tenney, especially built instruments, deep purrs and fragile, vulnerable sonorities, each piece a unique contemplation.

Quiet Music Ensemble:
Seán Mac Erlaine, clarinets and objects
Roddy O’Keeffe, trombone and objects
John Godfrey, electric guitar, electronics and objects
Ilse De Ziah, cello and objects
Dan Bodwell, double bass and objects

Digital album with unlimited streaming available
20th February from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp shop

12/02/2025

Sound artist Joseph Young features on New Sounds with John Schaefer, New York Public Radio.

The February 12th edition of New Sounds will feature Sonic Hauntings in a Big House, the recent album on by Joseph Young released on Farpoint Recordings.

A specialist in the binaural field recording technique, Young’s recent artistic practice focuses on aspects of sonic hauntology as it relates to the heritage space. The album structure of ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’, carefully arranged across two sides of vinyl represents the domestic and the external, and presents the listener with an elegiac soundtrack which subtly deconstructs the immutable layers of power and privilege, as it reverberates throughout its imaginary halls.

The story of the Big House on the island of Ireland is a complex one. Joseph Young’s debut album on Farpoint Recordings, explores this by asking the question “what does the Big House sound like?”.

Many thanks to John Schaefer and New Sounds.

New Sounds is New York Public Radio’s home for the musically curious, since 1982. It’s a hub for discovering weird and wonderful music from artists, composers and traditional musicians.

You can listen here on and after February 12th:
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/episodesandarticles

LP & Digital album available here:
https://ofnoises.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hauntings-in-a-big-house

11/02/2025

Kontakt - an unnecessary stain on the silence, with Anna Murray,
11th February 2025, features new work by Phil Maguire

This edition of Kontakt features 'Untitled 1 (morning)' from Phil Maguire’s new release 'faint red / pencil lines' on Farpoint Recordings. The programme also features entr’acte (John Godfrey, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea & Karen Power) and Regan Bowering.

Many thanks to Anna Murray and Kontakt.

You can listen to Kontact here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/kontakt-11th-february-2025/

Album available here:
https://philmaguire.bandcamp.com/album/faint-red-pencil-lines

16/12/2024

An evening of sound in The Guesthouse, Cork on 18th December to celebrate the release of faint red / pencil lines on Farpoint Recordings!

If you are in Cork on the 18th please joins at 6pm

faint red / pencil lines by Phil Maguire
CD + Digital Album with unlimited streaming - out 18th December

"...the two tracks that comprise this album are truly remarkable."
Massimo Ricci reviewing faint red / pencil lines in Touching Extremes. Read the review here: https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2024/12/14/phil-maguire-faint-red-pencil-lines/

You can hear a track excerpt on
Dublin Digital Radio - Sources Of Uncertainty:
https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/sources-of-uncertainty-ep-84-121224/

12/12/2024

We are delighted to release Demonstrable Progress by Brian Duggan and David Bremner today!

Listen & Purchase here:
https://davidbremner.bandcamp.com/album/brian-duggan-david-bremner-demonstrable-progress

Demonstrable Progress by Brian Duggan & David Bremner
12", 45rpm single side coloured vinyl + booklet - limited edition 200
Including digital track download with unlimited streaming + Demonstrable Progress video (video access via QR code in cover artwork pdf booklet)

Demonstrable Progress is a project by artist, Brian Duggan and composer, David Bremner exploring the decommissioning of the Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant with a new composition for piano and four hands, and a video work using original footage from inside the radioactive tanks. The Demonstrable Progress video is viewable by scanning the QR code in the cover artwork pdf booklet.

This musical composition responds to the unclear, seemingly mysterious, quality of the underwater footage with a quasi-Impressionist waterscape, distorted with scuzzy and murky colours. The intentionality we infer from the robots’ actions is reflected in an étude-like deliberateness.

Running since 1965, Sellafield is a British Nuclear Power Plant located in Cumbria, directly across the sea from Ireland. It is now being decommissioned and much of the site is now classed as nuclear waste. An environment too dangerous for humans to work in, a variety of robots are employed to open up, empty and clean the various toxic and inaccessible spaces.

Brian Duggan lives and works in Dublin, 128 miles from the Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant, across the Irish Sea.

David Bremner grew up in West Cumbria with Sellafield an everyday part of the landscape (his father worked there as a nuclear physicist). He now lives in Dublin.

Vinyl with Digital available here:
https://davidbremner.bandcamp.com/album/brian-duggan-david-bremner-demonstrable-progress

11/12/2024

Delighted to share news of two new releases coming your way!

Demonstrable Progress by Brian Duggan & David Bremner
12", 45rpm single side coloured vinyl + booklet - limited edition 200
Digital track download with unlimited streaming + Demonstrable Progress video - out 12th December!

faint red / pencil lines by Phil Maguire
CD - 6 panel A5 book size format; Digital Album with download + unlimited streaming - out 18th December, special launch event in The Guesthouse, Cork. More info soon!

Also available:
Sonic Hauntings in a Big House by Joseph Young
Vinyl LP, 33rpm black vinyl, printed inner sleeve + 4 page pamphlet with essay by Salomé Voegelin; Digital Album with download + unlimited streaming
https://ofnoises.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hauntings-in-a-big-house

05/12/2024

Sound artist Joseph Young releases his debut album Sonic Hauntings in a Big House via Farpoint Recordings!

Vinyl LP & Digital Album now available from the Farpoint Recordings Bandcamp shop:
https://ofnoises.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hauntings-in-a-big-house

A specialist in the binaural field recording technique, Young’s recent artistic practice focuses on aspects of sonic hauntology as it relates to the heritage space. The album structure of ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’, carefully arranged across two sides of vinyl represents the domestic and the external, and presents the listener with an elegiac soundtrack which subtly deconstructs the immutable layers of power and privilege, as it reverberates throughout its imaginary halls. The story of the Big House on the island of Ireland is a complex one. Joseph Young’s debut album on Farpoint Recordings, explores this by asking the question “what does the Big House sound like?”.

Vinyl LP comes with a printed inner sleeve and a 4 page pamphlet featuring the special commissioned essay 'The Big House Made Of Sound 'by Salomé Voegelin.

Digital Album version now comes with a bonus track not included on the vinyl, full album artwork package including Salomé Voegelin's essay, plus unlimited streaming.

More info, listen and purchase here:
https://ofnoises.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hauntings-in-a-big-house

www.farpointrecordings.com

29/11/2024

Sonic Hauntings In A Big House, the new vinyl LP and Digital Album by Joseph Young out 5th December

Vinyl LP Pre-Order available here:
https://ofnoises.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hauntings-in-a-big-house

We are very pleased to announce Sonic Hauntings in a Big House, the new Vinyl LP & Digital Album by Joseph Young will be available from our Bandcamp site on 5th December 2024.

“Here its houseness is built from fictions rather than stone…Thus I hear the elegiac moments of Young’s album not as an end to the big house’s history but as the celebration of the end of its singular narration”

Salomé Voegelin, extract from her essay 'The Big House Made Of Sound'.

Sound artist Joseph Young releases his debut album 'Sonic Hauntings in a Big House on the 6th December through Farpoint Recordings. A specialist in the binaural field recording technique, Young’s recent artistic practice focuses on aspects of sonic hauntology as it relates to the heritage space. The album structure of ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’, carefully arranged across two sides of vinyl represents the domestic and the external, and presents the listener with an elegiac soundtrack which subtly deconstructs the immutable layers of power and privilege, as it reverberates throughout its imaginary halls.

The vinyl album comes with inner sleeve and a 4 page pamphlet featuring the special commissioned essay 'The Big House Made Of Sound' by writer Salomé Voegelin. The Digital Album features an extra track not on the vinyl LP.

www.farpointrecordings.com

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