Acclaimed composer Dustin O’Halloran will release a new single, Fragile N.1, on May 6th. Recorded during the making of his seminal 2011 album Lumière, it’s one of four tracks that will accompany an expanded rerelease of the album. Coming in the year of its 15th anniversary, the new additions are a treasure trove of Lumière-era music, opened up to listeners for the first time.
O’Halloran wrote Lumière during and after his work on the soundtrack for Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and much of the music is cut from the same cloth. Fragile N.1 is both bracingly bold and enticingly delicate, with a resonance that still sounds like the notes have just been played. “I’d been exploring these ideas of fragility for the film,” says Dustin. “The kind of colours, textures, and materials it was using. And ideas of innocence. There were a lot of interesting sketches that didn’t make the record, and these ones felt worthy of release.”
The reissued album will include three other tracks — unreleased piano composition Timothy Is Sleeping, a propulsive remix of We Move Lightly, and a subtle, intimate demo recording of Opus 43.
Taken together, the four additional tracks open a new window into the richly creative moment when Lumière was recorded. “I learned a lot through the process of making this record,” says Dustin. “It set me up to explore so many different things about sound, in its pure form.”
