For Tronix Two, we took three tracks from a recent acoustic album, Thought-Fox’s “My Guess”, and handed out the files from the recording session to ten producers and composers to remix.

Thought-Fox is a contemporary jazz quintet of voice, trombone, piano, bass and drums. The remixers chose a track and had five wav files (one for each instrument) to play around with. The results are awesome if we do say so ourselves…

Here are previews from the first six remixes:

more remixes are on the way…

We’re having a gig at the Joinery with all the remixers on Friday, 22nd February. More info soon.

Diatribe has been featured in an All About Jazz article. The series, “Label Profiles” has looked at labels such as Fresh Sound New Talent and ACT.

Read the article here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=43703#.UP0SP4mLIyE

Thanks Ian!

As a guitarist and electronic musician he has played with many groups, including recent tours with Meljoann and Jack L, and continues working regularly as a jazz musician in small groups, duos and solo.

Jacobson founded Diatribe Records in the late 90s to promote the work of local underground artists and is currently one of three directors of the label. He curates the Tronix Series to encourage electronic music makers and composers to collaborate in unusual ways…

Enda’s new work “Mood Spiral” is up now on the Tronix bandcamp page.

Download for name-your-price, no minimum!

http://shop.diatribe.ie/track/mood-spiral-enda-bates

The Tronix Series is a selection of electronic music from Ireland, released in net-based installments from January 2011. The emphasis is on bringing artists from different musical regions together to collaborate or re-work each others’ material: from electro-acoustic to electronica, from improvised to techno to jazz.

Eric Pozza Canberra Jazz

Diatribe are proud to announce the release date for ‘My Guess’, the debut album from outstanding jazz quintet, Thought-Fox

Winner of Music Network’s Young Musicwide Award in 2010, Thought-Fox include some of the freshest improvisers on the Irish and UK jazz scenes, whose other-worldly compositions pivot around the powerful and gorgeous voice of Lauren Kinsella. Fellow foxes include trombonist Colm O’Hara, who has performed with luminaries such as Kenny Wheeler and Michael Brecker, and pianist Tom Gibbs, a stalwart of the Scottish jazz scene. Rhythmic propulsion comes courtesy of seasoned bassist Mick Coady and drummer Simon Roth.

Their debut record will be released at a free launch party on Saturday 1^st December at The Grand Social in Dublin.

‘My Guess’ was produced by Nick Roth for Diatribe Records – Ireland’s leading record label for jazz, contemporary, new and improvised music. Founded in 1999, their catalogue is a roster of the most innovative and creative artists working in Ireland today. CD available to purchase from www.diatribe.ie

My Guess features original songs, mostly composed by Kinsella, a natural-born improviser blessed with a truly astonishing voice.  On My Guess, Kinsella delves deep into personal experience and relationships to explore themes of loss and memory, and the idea of people moving on.  A deliciously diverse collection of tracks that weaves together Kinsella’s beautiful lyrical flights and expressive improvisations with the virtuosic interplay of trombonist Colm O’Hara, anchored by the powerhouse rhythm section of Tom Gibbs on piano, bassist Mick Coady and drummer Simon Roth. The result is an exquisite, intoxicating, and sometimes edgy blend of voices that manages to maintain equilibrium while probing and pushing in different directions.

Hailed as “a completely down to earth and exquisitely vivacious young Irish singer” (Katie Bull, The New York City Jazz Record), Lauren Kinsella has performed in venues across Ireland, the UK, Switzerland, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Germany and India. She completed her BA at Newpark Music Centre and has since studied with R.A. Ramamani in India, Mats Holtne in Sweden, and represented Ireland at the 19th IASJ meeting under Dave Liebman. She is currently pursuing her Jazz Masters at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, London. Lauren has performed in festivals around the world including the Shiva Festival, Malleswaram, India, The Songlines Encounters Festival, London, The Cork Jazz Festival, The 12 Points Festival, Porto and The European Jazz Nights Festival, Oslo. Lauren is a member of other groups such as Blue-Eyed Hawk with trumpeter Laura Jurd, Lupo with Swiss singer Sarah Buechi, and duo collaborations with musicians such as Alex Huber, Mark Sanders and Francesco Turrisi.

The launch of My Guess is a FREE event! Check out the facebook event page here>

We’re launching a physical Tronix release next month, with Tronix One, a 12” LP, on limited edition (run of 250) transparent red vinyl , with contributions from leading Ireland-based electronic musicians, producers and composers including Cignol, Legion of One, h-ci, Linda Buckley, Enda Bates, David Donohoe, and ZoiD and Nick Roth.

This new release is a compilation of highlights from the Diatribe Tronix series, an ongoing selection of electronic music from Ireland, which has been released in digital installments since January 2011. Tronix emphasis is on bringing artists from different musical regions together, from electro-acoustic to electronica, or improvised to techno to jazz, to collaborate or re-work each other’s material.

Tronix One will be launched at a live gig on Friday 23rd November in The Fumbally. Six live acts and two DJs will perform through the night, including a debut from Earráid - RTE Lyric FM composer-in-residence Linda Buckley’s new project with improvising musicians Nick Roth and Matthew Jacobson. Other Tronix sets on the night will come from Eomac v’s  ZoiD (Back2Back DJ Set) Cignol, h-ci + OKO, Enda Bates, David Donohoe, with live visuals from the ever inventive Tim Redfern.

Enda Bates (who picked up a nomination for a Qwartz 8 award for his Tronix piece “Pulse”) will play new material for guitar and electronics. David Donohoe will be creating improvisations using analogue synths. h-ci + OKO is a quartet of improvisers including Shane Latimer (gtr), Darragh O’Kelly (keyboards), DJackulate (turntables) and h-ci (drums and electronics). Cignol is a producer of lush techno and electro based on classic drum machines and synths such as Roland’s 606 and Juno 60.

Tickets for the Tronix launch are available on the door from 7pm and cost  a paltry €5 before 8pm, or €10 after 8pm. PLIUS: The first 20 guests will also receive a free copy of the Tronix One LP, so get there early.

The Tronix Series was supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Event: Diatribe Records album launch for Tronix One,
Date: Friday 23rd November 2012
Venue: The Fumbally, Dublin8
Time: Doors 7pm
Cost: €5 before 8pm, €10 after

The Tronix Series is a selection of electronic music from Ireland, released in net-based installments from January 2011. The emphasis is on bringing artists from different musical regions together to collaborate or re-work each others’ material. From electro-acoustic to electronica, from improvised to techno to jazz.

The tracks are released on our Bandcamp site.

In November 2012 we are releasing a limited edition red vinyl 12″ compilation disc to celebrate the first year of releases.

Mamoru Fujeida — Hi-Miwari Patterns of Plants

PREMIERE

MAMORU FUJIEDA’S ‘HI-MIWARI’ is a collaboration between one of Japan’s foremost living experimental composers and an ensemble formed of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, the YURODNY ENSEMBLE.

more info: yurodny.com/yur/news.asp?Choice=GIGS&id=123

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Sun 11 December, 8–12 PM · Whelan’s Upstairs · €6

Diatribe presents three of Dublin’s finest electronical acts:

T-WOC (Alphabetset)
zoiBand (Diatribe)
A-Force (!Kaboogie)

more info: facebook.com/event.php?eid=136593889778491

The band play all original compositions from Jacobson (“one of Ireland’s most exciting young talents” – the Irish Times) with influences including artists such as Charles Mingus, Steve Coleman, Deerhoof and Phil Ivey. The formula for putting all this together in one palindromical setting is downtown grooves with catchy melodies and collective improvs.

After a stop-start two years while Matt was studying for his MA in Music Performance in Lucerne, Switzerland, followed by a 6-week journey to South India to study the region’s traditional Carnatic music, ReDiviDeR are now hitting the ground running. Recent performance highlights include supporting Chris Potter’s Underground (“…easily the most compelling saxaphonist of his generation” – Detroit Press) at the Galway Jazz Festival 2010, representing Ireland at the 12 Points! Festival 2011 (“…a fine, fly set with a solid sense of style and direction” – Laurence Mackin, The Irish Times) and playing to a packed Triskel Auditorium at the Cork Jazz Festival 2011 where they were also awarded the accolade of “Best Young Irish Band“.

Between them, the members of the band have performed all over the world with some of the most innovative and well-respected musicians out there including Evan Parker, Gilad Atzmon, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Florian Ross and Peter Evans.

This two-horns-no-chords quartet was established by drummer Matt Jacobson in 2007 as a creative outlet for his compositions as well as his somewhat perverse fascination with anagrams. While he failed to find such avid fellow followers of wordplays, he did find and enlist the help of creative and rhythmic specialists Derek Whyte (bass) and Nick Roth (alto sax), with trombonist Colm O’Hara arriving a little later.

Their debut album features all original compositions from Jacobson (“one of Ireland’s most exciting young talents” – the Irish Times) with influences including artists such as Charles Mingus, Steve Coleman, Deerhoof and Phil Ivey. The formula for putting all this together in one palindromical setting is downtown grooves with catchy melodies and collective improvs.

After a stop-start two years while Matt was studying for his MA in Music Performance in Lucerne, Switzerland, followed by a 6-week journey to South India to study the region’s traditional Carnatic music, ReDiviDeR have no hit the ground running. Recent performance highlights include supporting Chris Potter’s Underground (“…easily the most compelling saxaphonist of his generation” – Detroit Press) at the Galway Jazz Festival 2010, representing Ireland at the 12 Points! Festival 2011 (“…a fine, fly set with a solid sense of style and direction” – Laurence Mackin, The Irish Times) and playing to a packed auditorium at the Cork Jazz Festival 2011, where they were awarded the accolade of “Best Young Irish Band”.