Cage of Time

"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.