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Cage of Time

Seamus O'Muineachain

Label: Ghost Home Recordings
Released: 2025
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Tracks

Far; Short Piece for Sleeping Lovers; Until the Lighthouse; Petrichor; Contemplate the Moon; Ponder; Rainwashing; Storms Over Achill; Auditorium; Finally.

Personnel

Album Description

"Cage of Time" is the eighth album from Irish composer Seamus O'Muineachain, and his first to be entirely written for and performed on solo piano. After first recording the songs digitally with a MIDI keyboard, O'Muineachain realised the essence of the songs was missing. He deleted the first draft and returned to the busted-up old upright piano the pieces were written on, recording his most stripped-back, raw, and intimate collection yet. Written in his hometown of Belmullet while waiting for a long, drawn-out bureaucratic process to finish, O'Muineachain muses on the constraints of time and how using it as a metric traps us in certain psychological patterns. The old piano—weathered and imperfect—mirrors this idea. It becomes both a relic of the past and a tool for unravelling it, evoking a lo-fi world now confined within digital infrastructure: a cage of time in both sound and spirit. **************** "Auditorium" is a reinterpretation of the song "Mongolia", which I originally wrote for my band Music for Dead Birds back in 2011. "Finally" was written at a cafe in Bangkok in April 2024. The rest of these tracks were written between November 2024 and June 2025 in Belmullet. "Storms Over Achill" was written in a blackout during Storm Éowyn, the most severe storm in Ireland’s recorded history.

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