NEW RELEASES
PAUL G. SMYTH | Descenders | CDR (2009)
€10
BOYS OF SUMMER | Pharaoh | CDR (2009)
Available from ceremonialdeath(at)gmail.com and BOLD LUMP
PAUL G. SMYTH | For Christina Carter | 3" CDR (2008)
This is a re-release of the track that first appeared on Foxglove’s Wailing Bones Vol. 9, which is now long sold out.
Available from PAULGSMYTH.COM and ROAD
THE JIMMY CAKE | Spectre & Crown | CD (2008)
Available from ROAD and TOWER RECORDS
"... unforgettable ... an extraordinary blossoming ... Clarinets, pianos and strings billow out over 54 sublime minutes of what is their best work yet."
****
The Ticket / Irish Times
"A rich and spectacular comeback album, this is The Jimmy Cake’s crowning achievement."
****
Sunday Business Post
"This record is simply a work of extreme orchestral splendour."
****
Sunday Tribune
"It'd take at least 5 years to produce something as accomplished and inventive as this!"
****1/2
Hot Press
"An indelible chronicle of nine musicians contributing to a singular and necessary vision"
State
"... it has been worth the wait, as Spectre & Crown is easily their finest work to date. From the opening piano chord of Red Tony, to the final note of Last Breath, The Jimmy Cake hardly put a foot wrong."
Totally Dublin
"Spectre & Crown is The Jimmy Cake's most arresting album to date."
Sunday Times
"By turns minimalistic and multi-layered, Spectre & Crown has moments of astonishing beauty. There are plenty of captivating tracks too - soaring and emotive."
****
Day & Night / Irish Independent
"... one of the most coherent, beautiful albums of the year so far."
entertainment.ie
"I cannot convey how enjoyable Spectre & Crown is."
brainwashed.com
"The album is a moving, sweepingly beautiful, orchestral epic with nine life-enhancing tracks of such diversity and scope that it’s hard to fathom that just nine people made it. ... few records will reach the heights that this royally brilliant piece of work reaches. An instant and longterm classic."
Westmeath Examiner
Paul G. Smyth (b.1976) is a musician, artist and designer, based in Dublin. A member of 9-piece band The Jimmy Cake (described by the Irish Times as "the most powerful musical force in Ireland"), Smyth is also Ireland's foremost free-improvising pianist. After studying fine-art painting in the National College of Art + Design, Smyth toured with New York free-jazz veteran Charles Gayle, and since then has played with such luminaries as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Keiji Haino, Barry Guy, John Russell, Chris Corsano and Damo Suzuki, been a featured composer in the National Concert Hall, written music for theatre, and performed in 17 countries. Most recently, Smyth was invited by Russell to perform at Fête Quaqua in London, where he worked with John Butcher, Lol Coxhill, Max Eastley, Roger Turner, Hannah Marshall, Chris Burn, Bill Hsu, Dylan Bates, Jean Bordé and Ute Wassermann, as well as Russell himself. This has led to a duo with English cellist Hannah Marshall, and the formation of a new trio with Marshall and percussionist Mark Sanders.
Smyth was a co-founding member of the artist-run collective The Whispering Gallery, which was set up for the promotion of new music from both Ireland and abroad.
Other activity has included a Postgraduate Diploma in Music & Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin, an exhibition of works on paper in Roundstone, Connemara, and the premiere of electroacoustic work, 'The Dry Land', at the Sligo New Music Festival. He has also just released 'Spectre & Crown', the new album by The Jimmy Cake, to critical acclaim. Smyth also makes electronic music under the name Most Haunted and as a member of Boys Of Summer.
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SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
Paul G. Smyth | Protect Yrself From Ghosts | [Nysha] (2003)
Paul G. Smyth | The Anaesthetic | [Deserted Village] (2005)
Paul G. Smyth | Holy Thursday | [Slow Loris / Nysha] (2006)
Paul G. Smyth | For Christina Carter | [Nysha] (2008)
Paul G. Smyth | Descenders | [Nysha] (2009)
Paul G. Smyth & Simon O'Connor | Winteriser | [Nysha] (2009)
Boys Of Summer | Pharaoh | [Munitions Family] (2009)
The Jimmy Cake | Dublin Gone. Everybody Dead. | [Pilatus] (2002)
The Jimmy Cake | Superlady | [Pilatus] (2003)
The Jimmy Cake / Domotic | split 12 | [Earsugar] (2004)
The Jimmy Cake | Spectre & Crown | [Pilatus] (2008)
David Kitt | The Big Romance | [Blanco y Negro] (2001)
David Kitt | Not Fade Away | [Rough Trade] (2006)
Luka Bloom | Eleven Songs | [Big Sky] (2008)
Know Your Enemy | Entropy | [Nysha] (2000)
V/A | Orang-Utan | [Goppa] (2002) (w/ The Jimmy Cake)
V/A | Grain | [DotDotDot Music] (2003)
V/A | Other Voices - Songs From A Room 2 | [RTE] (2004) (w/ The Jimmy Cake)
V/A | Wailing Bones Vol. 9 | [Foxglove] (2006)