Listen to the interview here.

"Fresh Air is a free music festival that will be transmitted directly into your ears via The Small Hours on Today FM. Donal Dineen has chosen his pick of the best new Irish sound makers to take part in a month-long celebration of great new music, live on your radio. For the month of November, Donal will have a invited guest act live on air for The Small Hours to play live, chat to Donal and play a selection of their own favourite tunes, effectively curating the show for the night. The Small Hours is on Today FM from midnight – 2am and the shows are archived for a week right here. We’ve plans to do something special and longer lasting with the archive of the Fresh Air shows, but stay tuned for more on that."  (from freshairfestival.wordpress.com)

http://freshairfestival.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/fresh_air_fest
Donal's Small Hours show on Today FM.

Interview with Tokafi magazine now online at:

http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/interview-jimmy-behan/

Jimmy Behan - The Echo Garden
CD/Download | Audiobulb | AB020

01. Awake
02. Through The Trees
03. Pools
04. Rust
05. Signs Of Life
06. Clock For No Time
07. Leaving Here
08. Across The Rooftops
09. Derelict
10. Dusk


The second Jimmy Behan album The Echo Garden is out now on Audiobulb Records.

It is available on CD (digipak/500 copies) as well as a download from all the usual outlets including:



Buy CD from Audiobulb (£7 plus shipping).
Buy CD from jimmybehan.net (€10.99 inc. shipping worldwide).

The CD is also available at Road Records (Dublin), City Discs (Dublin) and Plug'd Records (Cork) as well as online stores Experimedia (US) and Norman Records (UK).


"The beauty is in the detail. Carlow-born Jimmy Behan has been producing pristine, emotional, intricate electro-acoustic music for a couple of years. Since his 2004 debut, Days Are What We Live In , he has taken a less-is-more approach to his sound palate. This process of refinement and streamlining, as well as the obvious influence of more minimal composers, has led Behan to The Echo Garden , a beautifully mannered series of barely-there shapes, shifts and shadows. It’s quite clear from the way Behan manages and develops these micro-moods and flickering bursts of ambient soundscapes on tracks such as Clock For No Time that he can do quite a lot with very little. Best of all, he has retained the warm, emotional heart and soul that stirred in the midst of his earlier work." 4/5
Jim Carroll | Irish Times

"As if incorporating the essence of pastoral beauty, The Echo Garden opens up to all senses, revealing its dazzling complex of sweet sounds, refined tastes, impressionist images and sensual perfumes in small doses of complementary quality. The music is the movie here. Listening with your inner eyes will bring out the full cinematic qualities of this tender trip."
Tobias Fischer | Tokafi


More reviews.


www.audiobulb.com | www.jimmybehan.net

Various - Au Clair De La Lune (Digital)
Mp3 | INFREQUENCY D001 | 55mins

1. Philippe Jelli - U_Cinderella (For Flo)
2. Jimmy Behan - Her Voice
3. Venus Vulture - Monduacs
4. Thomas Anfield & David Bircham - Adumbratus
5. Richard Lainhart - La Lune Dans La Lumière De Jour
6. Cimarron Corpé - Nuit Enchantée
7. Shin Ichiro A - Deep Cascade
8. Rob Theakston - Cedar Lineal Luau
9. Sighup - Pierrot Répondit

Free download (117Mb zip)

Following on from their 2xCD compilation of the same name, INFREQUENCY have released a free compilation of compositions based on the earliest known recording of the human voice.

The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune”.

The 2xCD compilation, Au Clair De La Lune, is available from INFREQUENCY.ORG and features many acclaimed artists such as Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello & Molly Berg, Bernhard Günter and Christophe Charles.

Jimmy Behan - Remixes
Mp3/FLAC/ALAC | self release | 54mins

The Remixes compilation is now available to download in a range of high quality formats (320Mp3, FLAC, Apple Lossless etc.) from Bandcamp for $4.99 (€3.90) or $0.50 (€0.39) per track.

01. Hulk - We Ran (Jimmy Behan Remix)
02. Rod - All My Love (Jimmy Behan Remix)
03. Somadrone - City Light Driver (Jimmy Behan Remix)
04. Cracklebox - Winter Radio (Jimmy Behan Remix)
05. Cane 141 - Take The F-Line (Jimmy Behan Remix)
06. aus - Fukuso (Jimmy Behan Remix)
07. Halfset - Riversong (Jimmy Behan Remix)
08. Dry County - Another Idea (Jimmy Behan Remix)
09. Chequerboard - Skating Couple (Jimmy Behan Remix)
10. Northstation - The Long Walk Home (Jimmy Behan Remix)
11. Darren McClure - Let Your Eyes Go (Jimmy Behan Remix)
12. The Redneck Manifesto - Hibernation Statement (Jimmy Behan Remix)

All remixes and mastering by Jimmy Behan 2004-2008.
Cover photo by Kate McKeon.
© All tracks original artists and labels.

An excerpt from the piece Ghost of a Bird has been selected as part of the FrammentAzioni project, presented by TEM - Tuakay Edizioni Musicali.

'The selected compositions will be played continuously in sequence at a concert during the Contemporanea Festival in October in Udine (Italy) and broadcast from Taukay Web Radio, the first Italian web radio station dedicated entirely to contemporary music.
A video recording of the concert is also scheduled. Over the sequence, the dance company “Arearea” will present an expressly dedicated choreography.

The idea underlying this project has a broad international perspective. It is based on the idea that brief “fragments” of sound can be edited together to accompany movements, “actions”, in a continuum where chance is able to construct a fascinating audio-visual sequence.
Using the internet, artists were asked to send pieces of no more than 60 seconds in length to Taukay Edizioni Musicali, in order to participate in a kind of collective musical composition.
The time limit was a substantial challenge for the participants,calling for an essential nature which required complete control of the sonic events in the search for the heart of the music.
The result is a phenomenal and multi-faceted compositional whole, made up of 61 compositions chosen from 716 works submitted from 34 countries, to which the contemporary dance company “Arearea” has added the expression of movement.'

(from www.taukay.it).

The new In The Sudden Distance EP is out now on the Zymogen netlabel.

As with all Zymogen releases, it is available as a free download in high quality Mp3 (320kbps) and lossless FLAC.
It is also available to download from Bandcamp in a range of high quality formats including AAC, Ogg Vorbis and Apple Lossless for a minimum donation of $2.50.



1. Box of Broken Things
2. Embers
3. Cathedral
4. Downpour
5. From a Height

©Jimmy Behan
©Zymogen
Released under the Creative Commons license.


Cover photo by Laurent Batailley.
Thanks to Filippo Aldovini at Zymogen.

To create a CD:
1. Download tracks in FLAC format.
2. Download the FLAC decoder.
3. Drag and drop files into program and press decode.
4. Files will decode to CD quality 16 bit wavs.
5. Burn wavs to CD.
The freeware media player foobar2000 can also be used to decode/encode/play
FLAC files.

'Commissioned by the Model Arts and Niland Gallery as part of model::offsite, Relay is an online music project curated by musician John Lambert (aka. Chequerboard). Lambert will invite a selection of irish and international sound artists and musicians to contribute to Relay over the duration of the project. He will record an initial sound work and then relay this piece to the first contributor. Each work will be published online as it is completed, and this page will map the path of this dialogue of ideas between artists.'

Relay - A Dialogue Between Sound Artists

1. Chequerboard
2. Jimmy Behan
3. Loscil
4. Hulk
5. Polly Fibre
6. Pierre Bastien

More artists to follow..

1. Sora
2. Lethargic
3. Von Rechts Nach Links
4. Fukuso
5. Midnight Wedding
6. Hero Of The Paper Boy
7. E738
8. What's Eating You?
9. Ballet
10. Idle Talk
11. Ausspiel
12. Through You (Geskia Remix)
13. UR (The Boats Remix)
14. Fukuso (Jimmy Behan Remix)

Released: March 2008 on Preco Records (Japan).
Cat. No: Preco005

''Antwarps is a gorgeous compilation album consists of early works by aus (Yasuhiko Fukuzono) from Tokyo. All the tracks on the album were selected from his groundbreaking debut album Kangaroo Note (2004) and the sublime follow-up album Crowding (2005) from U-Cover CDr Limited. These two albums were previously released as limited edition albums of which only 95 copies were produced for each of the albums. Antwarps is an elegant collection of fresh and melodic IDM, strong beat oriented electronica and ambient works by aus who was only 21 years old by then. This album also includes exclusive bonus remixes by The Boats, Geskia and Jimmy Behan.' (from www.preco-records.com).

"Psychonavigation Records latest project is a unique collaboration with the world famous music programme An Taobh Tuathail. The plan is to release a CD compilation of electronic music that perfectly reflects the diverse music style of the radio show. So here it is, a twelve track CD compilation which has been painstakingly selected by An Taobh Tuathail’s founder Cian Ó Cíobháin. A beautiful blend of ambient/electronic sounds from some of the world’s finest producers." (from www.psychonavigation.com).

01 Felix Laband - 4/4 Down The Stairs
02 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Every Night I Die At Miyagi’s
03 Cane 141 - Sticky Lips
04 OST - Socrates Dream
05 Fug - By Gadd
06 Phelan Sheppard - Weaving Song
07 United Bible Studies - Columba’s Song
08 Anne Garner - Home (Dean Honer Mix)
09 Beatpoet - Tao
10 Chequerboard - Konichiwa
11 Heftord - Seperation
12 Jimmy Behan - Gate 28

Artist: Various Artists
Album: An Taobh Tuathail
Release Date: August / September 2007
Cat. No: PSY 021
Distribution: Arabesque [ www.arab.co.uk ] / RMG Ireland
Contact: Keith Downey psychonavigation@gmail.com

Gate 28 was originally released on Ep by Kin Recordings in 2001.