THE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS OF THE IRISH AVANT-GARDE is presented by the Aisteach Foundation. Aisteach is a repository and archive for historical documents, recordings, materials and ephemera relating to avant-garde music in Ireland. Established in 1974 by composer Frank Ó Conchubhair and poet Síle Ní Maoldomhnaigh, the centre has operated variously at Parnell Square Dublin, An Rinn and finally its current home in Joshua Lane, Dublin 2. Please visit aisteach.org for further information about the pieces and composers featured here. Please visit aisteach.org for further information about the pieces and composers featured here.

Thank you for reading the fine print, because I have a confession to make – the composers featured on this release are fictional. The Aisteach Foundation and the “Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde” are a communal thought experiment, a revisionist exercise in “what if?”, a huge effort by many people to create an alternative history of avant-garde music in Ireland, to write our ancestors into being and shape their stories with care. We played fast and loose with history and the truth and we like to think Flann O’Brien would have approved. Please visit aisteach.org to explore the project further.

I am extremely grateful to the Arts Council of Ireland for funding this project.

This project is dedicated with great love to Bob Gilmore.

— Dr Jennifer Walshe, President, Aisteach Foundation

Contributors: John Berndt, Felicity Ford, Panos Ghikas, Paul Gilgunn, Stephen Graham, Majella Munro, Simon O’Connor, Rían O’Rahallaigh, Nick Roth, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly,Jennifer Walshe

REAL CREDITS:
Track 1: Composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Panos Ghikas and Jennifer Walshe.
Track 2: Composed by Jennifer Walshe.
Track 3: Composed by Panos Ghikas, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe.
Track 4: Composed by Panos Ghikas, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe.
Track 5: Composed by Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe.
Track 6: Composed by Richard Devine.
Track 7: Composed by Paul Gilgunn, Panos Ghikas, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe.
Track 8: Composed by Jennifer Walshe; additional text by Tomomi Adachi.
Track 9: Composed by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Panos Ghikas and Jennifer Walshe.
All tracks recorded, produced and mastered by Panos Ghikas, apart from:
Track 2 - recorded and produced by Jennifer Walshe
Track 6 - recorded and produced by Richard Devine
Track 8 - produced by Jennifer Walshe and Tomomi Adachi