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Release Date: 15 May 2026
Label: Nmc Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363029629
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Sean Clancy
Description
NMC Recordings presents 'Where the Paths End', a new album by Irish experimental composer Sean Clancy, bringing together key works written between 2013 and 2025 that explore lived experience, repetition, and loss through a distinctive deadpan aesthetic. The album centres on Clancy's practice of "translation": rendering everyday experiences and environments into sound without commentary or judgement, allowing meaning to emerge through attentive listening. Rooted in minimalist and post-minimalist traditions, Clancy's music is characterised by sparseness, slow unfolding processes, looping structures, and subtle timbral shifts, drawing lineage from figures such as Morton Feldman while remaining closely tied to contemporary experimental sound worlds. The title work, Where the Paths End, translates the act of walking through London, Birmingham, and Edinburgh into sound. Existing both as soundwalks and an ensemble work, it reflects on urban change, memory, and the therapeutic act of walking during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plus-Minus Ensemble
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Xenia Pestova-Bennett, Stephen Richardson, Claire Booth, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sian
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Jorgen Pettersson, Paulina Sundin, Jens Hedman, Jonny Axelsson
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Marco Fusi
Gewandhausorchester, Mauersberger; +
Diane Andersen; Marc Dobrinbski; Danel Quartet
Spark, Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester
Marina Tarasova/Ivan Sokolov
Kristof Barati/Concerto Budapest/Andras Keller
Gran Duo Italiano/Mauro Tortorelli/Angela Meluso
Charis Ensemble
Butter Quartet
