Dubliner Seán Mac Erlaine is an explorer at the frontiers of sound, a fearless and generous experimenter who interrogates his instruments for all their sonorous possibilities.
A Slender Song is a collection of solo performances recorded over the past few years, and listening to it, one can but envy the audiences who witnessed them. In performance, Mac Erlaine is an absorbing spectacle, creating sound beds with percussion and electronics, to be overlaid with flute, saxophone and bass clarinet, building into vast and limitless soundscapes.
Shorn of the visual, his music takes on an even more mysterious aura, creating an utterly original sonic space where free jazz and fragments of Irish trad are embraced by low hums and electronic abstraction.
