About Jimmy Behan
Jimmy Behan is an Irish musician/composer working with acoustic and electronic sounds, computer processing and field recordings. After featuring on a number of Irish compilations, he released his first EP on Kin Recordings in 2001 followed by a split 7″ on Road Relish. The debut album Days Are What We Live In was released on Elusive Recordings in 2004. He released the In the Sudden Distance EP on Zymogen in June 2008 which was followed by the Remixes compilation in November 2008. The second album is due out spring 2009 on Audiobulb with a third album planned for summer 2009 on Nomadic Kids Republic. He has performed at Dublin’s Lazybird and Ballroom of Romance nights, the Mor festival 2004, The Big Chill festival (UK) in 2002 and 2005, the DEAF festival 2007 and the Electric Picnic festival 2008 and has supported many international acts including Murcof, Four Tet, Lali Puna, Fennesz and Caribou. Awarded an M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin in 2006, where he studied under Irish composers Roger Doyle and Donnacha Dennehy. He also records as Glissen with Kate McKeon. Website | MySpace | Lastfm | Bandcamp | Facebook | iLike | Twitter