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GILGUNN Irish composer and musician working across avant-rock, post-minimalism, and improvised music Paul Gilgunn is a composer and musician working across the peripheries of classical and popular music – primarily, avant-rock, improvised music, and post- minimalist composition. His aesthetic is characterised by a defiant avant-gardism that engages and expands subjectivity using a variety of forms, genres, instruments, and techniques. These collaborative, ensemble, and solo projects often involve cross-disciplinary activities with literature, video, video games, and visual art. He has collaborated and performed with leading musicians including Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, David Daniell, Cora Venus Lunny, Robbie Malone, Jay Oglesby, Nick Roth, Danny Snow and Jennifer Walshe. A studio recording of his latest work HERE WE ARE NOW (2019) was released to critical acclaim in February 2019: 'Fantastic' , Bernard Clarke, RTE Lyric FM 'You won’t hear anything else like this today' , Nialler9 Record Picks ‘Gilgunn imparts an Irish lilt to the “minimalist strumming of multiple guitars” genre pioneered by Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham’ , Guitar Moderne, Record Picks XVI 'Extraordinary... love the record' , Dan Hegarty, RTE 2FM ‘A piece of minimal instrumental avant-rock power that propels and compels. Here We Are Now is a big great slab of a group working perfectly as one tight unit’ , Norman Records (UK)
Transcript of EPK Paul Gilgunn 2019
GILGUNN
Irish composer and musician working across
avant-rock, post-minimalism, and improvised music
Paul Gilgunn is a composer and musician working across the peripheries of
classical and popular music – primarily, avant-rock, improvised music, and post-
minimalist composition. His aesthetic is characterised by a defiant avant-gardism
that engages and expands subjectivity using a variety of forms, genres,
instruments, and techniques. These collaborative, ensemble, and solo projects
often involve cross-disciplinary activities with literature, video, video games, and
visual art. He has collaborated and performed with leading musicians including
Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, David Daniell, Cora Venus Lunny, Robbie Malone,
Jay Oglesby, Nick Roth, Danny Snow and Jennifer Walshe. A studio recording of
his latest work HERE WE ARE NOW (2019) was released to critical acclaim in
February 2019:
'Fantastic' , Bernard Clarke, RTE Lyric FM
'You won’t hear anything else l ike this today' , Nialler9 Record Picks
‘Gilgunn imparts an Ir ish l i l t to the “minimalist strumming of multiple guitars” genre pioneered by Glenn Branca and Rhys
Chatham’, Guitar Moderne, Record Picks XVI
'Extraordinary.. . love the record' , Dan Hegarty, RTE 2FM
‘A piece of minimal instrumental avant-rock power that propels and compels. Here We Are Now is a big great slab of a group working
perfectly as one tight unit’ , Norman Records (UK)
Video links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Zww6h5qWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEblulEdHyc&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO6CeRmxTnM
https://youtu.be/EeErCk2aVoo
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