Here We Are Now is an exploration of the present moment and the impermanent nature of existence. Sounds and melodies form and unfurl before dissolving and morphing into something else, with no particular purpose other than to pass through time from one moment to the next. The shapes and sounds of nature, various eastern philosophies, the writing of Fernando Pessoa and the art of Georgia O’Keeffe all provided additional inspiration. It’s my first work using a modular synth set up, which helped me work in broader strokes with less emphasis on decision making.

The album is dedicated to my dear old cat Loley, who passed during its making.

Thanks to David Newman at Audiobulb, Seán Mac Erlaine for the mastering, Úna for additional encouragement and focus, all my friends and family. JB January 2022.

Reviews:

A Closer Listen

Music Won’t Save You

These were two tracks that I recorded around 2008 which never found a home, so I gave them their own release as I think they compliment each other well. Ghost Of A Bird was made in response to an injured starling which I found in my garden, which sadly I couldn’t bring back to health. It features a contact mic recording of a bird feeding. Sleeping Ships aims to capture a soundworld which presides in those moments between wakefulness and sleep, where sounds can be real, imagined or maybe both. JB October 2021.

I’ve a new track featured on a new Audiobulb records compilation Exhibition #100.

Both the albums Days Are What We Live In and Remixes can now be downloaded from Bandcamp for only €1.00 each (high quality MP3 or FLAC).
Go here:
jimmybehan.bandcamp.com

Some copies of The Echo Garden album are still available on CD from Bandcamp for €9.00 plus shipping, or as a download from the usual outlets (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Thrill Jockey etc.)

Billy & Jilt Lily - Sgustok Podcast 006

Catalog#: Sgustok Pod 006
Released: 16 May 2011

DOWNLOAD (82.9MB)

01. Wes Willenbring - In A Quiet Dark Room
02. Elegi - Sovnens Kvelertak
03. Swod - Ja
04. Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Possibilities
05. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Microhelix
06. Billy & Jilt Lily - IDRO
07. Frank Bretschneider - The Moon Is A Hole In The Sky
08. Dani Siciliano - Be My Producer
09. Billy & Jilt Lily - Girs
10. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Reflex
11. Feist - Amourissima
12. Jimmy Behan - Signs Of Life
13. Robert Henke - Crossing
14. Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaef - Belle Etoile
15. Terje Isungset - Frozen
16. Efterklang - Doppelganger
17. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Lumberton
18. Fennesz - Saffron Revolution

http://sgustokmusic.org

New retrospective compilation from Audiobulb Records available now as a digital download.

01. Build: A Development (with a grid of streets and
shopping centre heart)
02. He Can Jog: Agnes (After Woodland Pattern)
03. Ultre: A House Under Your Head
04. Jimmy Behan: Across the Rooftops
05. Papercutz: All We Have Left (Behind Version
Emanuele Errante Remix)
06. OTI: Another Kind
07. RF featuring Midori Hirano: A Place for Saving
08. Milinal: Artificial & Yellow (featuring Natasha
Burinskaya)
09. Calika: A Serpentine Tale
10. Jeremy Bible: Behind the Concrete Factory
11. Ultre: Being Invincible
12. Autistici: Counting Sleep
13. He Can Jog: Chorale Mix

More info here.
www.audiobulb.com

Out of Order - Niall de Buitléar - Exhibition Trailer from Niall de Buitlear on Vimeo.

Promotion video for Out of Order, an exhibition of sculpture and drawing by Niall de Buitléar. Featuring the track Granby Row, the video shows sketchbook pages relating to the work in the exhibition.

Venue: The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1.

Date: Opening 6 - 8 pm, Wednesday 6th July.
Runs from 7th July - 19th August 2011.

www.thelab.ie
www.nialldebuitlear.com

Spanish director Celia Galán has completed a short film called Room 22 which uses two tracks from Days Are What We Live In (Under The Woods and Complete). The film is part of a series of six shorts produced by Boolab, all shot in a Barcelona hotel by six different directors.

A review of the film in El Pais can be read here (Spanish).

Watch the film here (Spanish).

www.celiagalan.com
www.boolab.tv

A new piece by Projector Collective has been added to John Lambert’s Relay: A Dialogue Between Sound Artists net-audio project.
Read and listen to their entry here.

Resonating Wires, a compilation of remixes of the Autistici track Resonating Wire, from his Complex Test Tone album (Kesh), is out now on Audiobulb.
Available on Digipak CD or digital download.

Tracklisting:
01. Orexis - Simon Scott
02. Telephone Lullaby - Bluermutt
03. Tide Ride - Sawako
04. Remix - Jimmy Behan
05. Untitled #241 - Francisco Lopez
06. Isan Ice Later - Isan
07. First - Justin Varis
08. Remix - Ian Hawgood & Dan Norbury
09. Wire. Re - Richard Chartier
10. Chorale Mix - He Can Jog

Go to: www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB032/AB032.htm
for more info and audio samples.

www.audiobulb.com