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Barry O'Halpin - Lipids

by Crash Ensemble

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Lipids 07:38
2.
Lethargarian 06:00
3.
Stridula 07:40

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“O’Halpin deploys the sonic possibilities of the electric guitar in ways that are pretty much alien to those of its familiar role in rock music….hesitant, random and delicate, several different registers – high, middle and low – all in subdued, intimate discourse with one another.” - The Irish Times
Lipids is Dubliner Barry O’Halpin’s first composer portrait release with Crash Records.

These three works from 2014-2019 chart the evolution of Barry’s inventive and exploratory writing for both chamber ensemble and solo electric guitar, as composer in residence and guitarist with Crash Ensemble.

The title track Lipids interweaves murky timbres of cello, bass clarinet and electric guitar, evoking dream-like imagery of amorphous shapes clustering and scattering in spacious darkness.

Lethegarian for 9 musicians plays with Crash Ensemble’s affinity for rhythm, alternating propulsive motion and elastic tension. Glassy driving textures are punctured by percussive interjections and moments of near-collapse.

In Stridula, experimental techniques and microtonal tuning reimagine the solo electric guitar as a percussion instrument, scuttling through woody and metallic colours and off-kilter grooves. Its eruptive rhythmic climax is transcribed from the pulsating chatter of a longhorn beetle.

This is the third release on Crash Records, Crash Ensemble’s own label.

A lot of my work pursues a kind of organic quality, where no shape or colour is really flat or static if you look closely. There’s often a simple or familiar element at the core, but I’m interested in smudging the clean lines and letting a flux of details grow around like offshoots. - Barry O’Halpin

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released March 26, 2021

Composer: Barry O’Halpin

Performers: Crash Ensemble
Flute: Susan Doyle
Clarinet: Deirdre O’Leary
Trombone: Roddy O’Keeffe
Electric Guitar: John Godfrey (Lipids) & Barry O’Halpin(Stridula)
Percussion: Roger Moffatt
Piano: Isabelle O'Connell
Violin: Emily Thyne
Viola: Lisa Dowdall
Cello: Kate Ellis
Bass: Malachy Robinson

Conductor: David Brophy (Lethegarian)

Music recording
Produced, mixed and mastered: Adrian Hart
Recording Engineer Lipids: Jonathan Nangle
Artwork: Jack Phelan
Design: Gareth Jones

Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland

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