Label: Farpoint Recordings

CDとDVDがセットになった24ページ・ブックレット一体型の美麗装丁!!1965年アイルランド生まれ、音楽学者、作曲家、クラシック・ギター奏者であり、主に現代音楽やフリー・インプロヴィゼーションの脈にて世界中で演奏活動を展開してきたBenjamin Dwyer。自国のコンポーザーであるDavid Fennessy、Peter Moran & Judith Ring、Paul Hayesらの楽曲、そして自作曲をプリペアド・ギター一本で演奏した超硬派な記録物[KnowingUnknowing]。凄まじい緊張感の鉱物的スタイルと流麗な運びが混在する稀有なスタイルが素晴らしく、目隠しをして行われるコンテンポラリー・ダンサーHelen Kindredとの身体と演奏の映像記録も激ヤバ。

Over 70 minutes of music are contained on the Knowing Unknowing CD featuring works by David Fennessy, Peter Moran & Judith Ring, Peter Moran, Paul Hayes alongside Dwyers KnowingUnknowing I, II & III. The KnowingUnknowing DVD features a unique music and dance performance with Helen Kindred and Benjamin Dwyer filmed by Pete Gomes. The CD & DVD are presented in a unique trifold A5 size cover with metallic ink finishes and a twenty four page booklet. The aforementioned booklet features essays by Benjamin Dwyer, Helen Kindred and Pete Gomes.

Published in a first edition of 500, each copy is hand-numbered. KnowUnknowing is the first collaboration between Farpoint Recordings and Nathan Somers of Wicklow based graphic design company We Make Visual.


The Dublin-based label Farpoint Recordings always takes great pride in its releases, lavishing time and love on their artwork, packaging, documentation and quality control. Never has that been truer than on KnowingUnknowing by guitarist-composer-writer Benjamin Dwyer, dancer Helen Kindred and film-maker Pete Gomes...

Altogether, the CD tracks and DVD show Dwyer to be an outstanding and inventive guitarist; whether playing another composer’s score, improvising on another’s piece or on his own, his fluid playing breathes life into his instrument so it produces a full rich sound which makes the music come alive and sing...Particularly fascinating is the enthralling nine-minute opening piece on the DVD, in which Dwyer and Kindred both perform blindfolded, thus underlining how in touch he is with his guitar, and she with her body and the performance space.