Ergodos

“Texture and melody are the sites of exploration here.”

Pick up you copy of Old Segotia at ergodos.ie

If you loved the music, you’re going to love this. 🎹

The score of ’s solo piano suite A Birch Forest Seen, Imagined, Remembered is now available as a beautifully typeset hard copy edition, signed by the composer.

Available now via our shop: https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/merch/limited-edition-score

It’s been a full month since we released “A birch forest seen, imagined, and remembered” 🍃✨

Looking back at the recording session at St Peter’s Church 🎧

“St Peter’s Church in Drogheda,” Schembri says, “where we recorded, was not only the perfect acoustic space for the music, but its high ceilings and openness placed us in a setting that, in a way, could evoke that tall birch forest.”

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A magical night last Friday at for the launch of ’s beautifully contemplative “A birch forest seen, imagined, and remembered” masterfully performed by 🎹

A special thank you to the festival team and the wonderfully warm audience! ✨

The three-part EP and limited-edition score are out now!
Find them on :
https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/a-birch-forest-seen-imagined-and-remembered

“A birch forest seen, imagined, and remembered” by performed by is out today!!!

A meditation on the passing of time, this three-movement work holds the listener in three distinct contemplative spaces. Sumptuous musical material unfolds, unhurried. We are invited and then immersed.

This is a work of generosity; it offers revelations as rich as they are gentle. Such artistic spirit belies an incredible precision of compositional craft, an exquisite sense of balance, proportion and timing.

Captured in the unique acoustic of St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda, Máire Carroll’s utterly sensitive and rapt performance combines a lithe rhythmic taughtness with a touch resulting in pearlescent beauty of sound.

Produced by the composer herself, and following on from Sea Salt & Turpentine, her chamber music debut on the Ergodos label in 2024, this EP is a clear-sighted statement of artistic purpose and intention.

The release and limited edition of the score are available on now!
https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/a-birch-forest-seen-imagined-and-remembered

The EP will be launched today at . The work itself will form a centrepiece of a special early evening recital by Máire Carroll, co-curated and introduced by Carroll and Schembri.

https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/a-birch-forest-seen-imagined-and-remembered

https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/these-rules-around-us-may-alter

Ergodos is proud to announce the release of “These Rules Around Us May Alter”, a digital EP featuring four original songs by Irish vocalist Michelle O’Rourke. https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/these-rules-around-us-may-alter

Michelle O’Rourke’s voice is utterly distinctive, both muscular and luminous; her gifts for expressive refinement widely praised. “O’Rourke’s contributions dazzle with unaffected clarity.” – The Guardian

Over the past fifteen years, she has created a rich body of work as an interpreter, enjoying mutually nourishing artistic relationships with several Irish composers, much of this documented on the Ergodos label.

O’Rourke has also cultivated practices of collaboration and creative work, often in multidisciplinary spaces, often drawing inspiration from diverse strands of thought, from Jungian psychology to performance art.

This is the first EP of original songs by O’Rourke, an offering of quietly anthemic statements in pared back arrangements, driven by melodies of unassailable strength and O’Rourke’s always moving vocal delivery.

Oh look! There’s Old Segotia in KLOF’s end of year mixtape - and amid some pretty great company, too.

🎧 Have a listen: https://klofmag.com/2025/12/end-of-year-mixtape-klof-no-64-a-year-in-review-pt-1/

🎷Buy the album: https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/old-segotia