Roger Doyle - Homemade Ivory Dreams

Appositely titled collection of piano/keyboard-led excursions from the great Irish composer/producer Roger Doyle, first released in 2017 and now afforded a painfully small vinyl pressing of 100 thanks to Allchival. We're very much in private universe territory here, the sound of an artist whittling away at an interest, the practice as valid as the end product. I've long had a soft spot for these kind of records, where the listener is seemingly afforded a window into a world, that sense of a shared secret, a personal confession whispered into the ear.  Crucially, what's imparted retains a beguilng sense of mystery too, Doyle expressing a Stroom-like dreamworld that oscilates between the foggy, the intimate and the playful, something akin to TRjj, Pablo's Eye or The Lost Jockey. Typically enchanting activity from an artist who you imagine would be committed to making this kind of thing whether anyone were tuning in or not. Since there's only 100 copies, that might unfairly not be far off the case.