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“Ireland’s darkest jewel”
JMI - The Journal of Music in Ireland
Paul G. Smyth (b.1976) is a musician, artist and designer, based in Dublin. A member of The Jimmy Cake (described by the Irish Times as “the most powerful musical force in Ireland”) and Boys Of Summer (“the sound of John Carpenter being buried alive” – Le Cool Magazine), Smyth is also Ireland’s foremost free-improvising pianist. Since touring with New York free-jazz veteran Charles Gayle, he has gone on to play with such luminaries as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Keiji Haino, Barry Guy, John Russell, Chris Corsano, Lol Coxhill, John Butcher, Max Eastley and Damo Suzuki, been a featured composer in the National Concert Hall, written music for theatre, and performed in 17 countries. Current projects include an ongoing duo with guitarist John Russell, a trio with cellist Hannah Marshall and percussionist Mark Sanders, and a new trio with saxophonist Alan Wilkinson and drummer Willi Kellers.
Smyth was a co-founding member of the artist-run collective The Whispering Gallery, which was set up for the promotion of new music from both Ireland and abroad.
Other activities have included a Postgraduate Diploma in Music & Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin, an exhibition of works on paper in Roundstone, Connemara, and the premiere of electroacoustic work, ‘The Dry Land’, at the Sligo New Music Festival. In 2008, ‘Spectre & Crown’, the new album by The Jimmy Cake, was released to critical acclaim. Smyth makes electronic music under the name Most Haunted, and is Creative Director of the graphic design studio Neon Palms.
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