LATEST RELEASE
From Dublin post-punk pioneer STANO,
featuring Aidan Gillen, John Perry, Ian Lynch..
BEFORE MAY I WILL CHANGE
Lockdown was a strangely creative time. There was a lot going on and nothing going on, I found myself writing and gathering found sounds in the absence of access to the studio. I was forced to go back to my early ways of working before I had a studio when I created and gathered sounds using 2 tape recorders and layered my words on them. During this period many poems were written. I spent a lot of time editing until they started to resemble short poems, some of which I knew I’d like to record myself and others needed a different voice.
Aidan Gillen had recorded a story for my In Between Silence story collection and expressed an interest in another collaboration. I didn’t let him hear the backing tracks in advance, I didn’t want the music to influence his interpretation of the words. As an actor he seemed to recognise exactly what I was trying to express. It was a really interesting experience to hear someone else inhabit my words and deliver them almost like a character in a play.
RELEASES
About STANO
Irish artist STANO has been a recording artist and composer since the early ‘80’s. With 24 albums (released on Berlin label ‘Dossier’, Independent labels ‘Scoff’, ‘Food Records’ London, ‘Egg Records’ Greece, ‘Hue’ and ‘Loscann’ and the debut album for U2’s Mother Records), numerous singles and film soundtracks to his credit.
Regarded as a true innovator, with an intense understanding of sonic structure and always ahead of his time, STANO has a unique take on music production. He is the first Irish musician to use the studio as his instrument. Known as an electronic pioneer, he collaborates with musicians from all genres. His music is a hybrid of musical styles, beautiful melodies, powerful rhythms, other worldly layers, textures and extremely visual.
THE QUIETUS
"The folks at All City Records reissued that seminal album of Irish experimentalism Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft. In doing so, they have shone a light on an artist whose significance runs deep and who, in many ways, prefaced the gnarled, accented and inflected authenticity that has since resurfaced in Irish artists like Kojaque, Girl Band, Fontaines D.C, Handsome Eric and Robocobra Quartet."
OPERA JOURNAL
"In that multiplicity of voices there is an echo of James Joyce's Dubliners, and In Between Silence could be a Dubliners for the 21st century. But the project seeks to find similar experiences in a wider context of time and place."
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