New album of ambient guitar work out now on all streaming/downloading platforms!

Kithara features solo guitar other ambient, multilayer soundscapes. The guitar tracks explore alternate tunings, microtunings and using the guitar as a prepared instrument. 

Preview album and get direct links via Distrokid.

New EP, Sleeping Tongues, is out now on all good streaming/download platforms.

Four tracks of ambient percussion, featuring the tongue drum. Soothing atmospheric medicine poured into your ears.

Preview tracks and get direct links via Distrokid distribution.

"...what use for hands test various positions flat cupped gripping rest dead no use feel uneasy with presence empty feeling nothing clarify they feel the nothingness clarify further the nothingness of what is at hand no life no other life to hold imagine concrete statue fixed position lovers none..."

THE LOSS OF SENSE is an experimental prose poem in twenty-four parts. Framed within the context of a twenty-four hour cycle, the poem breaks down typical sentence construction and use of language to mirror the seemingly non-linear thought processes of the depressed mind.

You can get the digital download of the poem, including a pdf booklet and audio recording, for a limited time only via Bandcamp. 

German ambeint net-label aquietroom invites you to the online launch of two albums from Northern Irish poet and sound artist Colin Dardis.

The first album, ZWISCHENZUG, is out of September 27th, available to pre-order now, with the first two tracks available to stream. Recorded over Christmas 2019, ZWISCHENZUG finds parallels in the computations and endless variations of the game of chess and mental health, in a sea of ambient drone sounds and experimental noise.

‘Zwischenzug’ is a tactic used in chess, where instead of playing the expected and obvious move, a player first inserts another move that poses an immediate threat, which the opponent must answer; only then is the expected move played. This mirrors the interrupted thought process and patterns of the unhealthy mind, either in sabotage itself with destructive thinking, or having to challenge and interrupt itself through CBT techniques. Likewise, the sounds of offer establish and then interrupt themselves, rarely settling. Foregoing traditional structures of tone, melody and rhythm, rather the tracks largely rely on improvisation and indeterminism to build up their soundscapes.

The second album, SHEER VOCALISM, will be released on October 17th. All the sounds heard here originate from the human voice: hums, grunts, whistles, moans, squeals, growls, mumbles, whispers, hisses, and other undefinable noises. The idea behind the album was to restrict the source material to its most basic and immediately available: one voice, and one microphone. And then to see where it was possible to take that voice.

Sunday 19th July, 8pm

Fly on the Wall Press hosts a live reading from poet, editor and facilitator Colin Dardis.

Colin will be reading from his 2019 collection, The Dogs of Humanity, as well as previewing new work.

Colin’s work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and the US, with poems listed in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, and Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition, amongst others. He co-runs Poetry NI, a multimedia platform for Northern Irish poets, and co-hosts Purely Poetry, the long-running monthly open mic night at Crescent Arts Centre.

The reading will be broadcast on the Fly on the Wall Press Performance group on Facebook.