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  • Emmy Award Winner Dustin O’Halloran Shares Unheard Track “Fragile N.1” Ahead of Lumière Reissue

    Emmy Award Winner Dustin O’Halloran Shares Unheard Track “Fragile N.1” Ahead of Lumière Reissue

    Acclaimed composer Dustin O’Halloran has released “Fragile N.1,” a previously unheard track recorded during the sessions for his 2011 album Lumière.

    The track is one of four archival pieces included in an expanded reissue of Lumière, arriving in celebration of the album’s 15th anniversary. These recordings, drawn from the original creative period, offer a closer look into the atmospheric and minimalist world that defined the project.

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    Originally developed during and after O’Halloran’s work on the soundtrack for Marie Antoinette, “Fragile N.1” carries the same delicate, cinematic quality that shaped much of the Lumière era. Built around restrained piano work and subtle tonal shifts, the piece explores ideas of fragility, innocence, and emotional texture through minimal but expressive composition.

    Alongside “Fragile N.1,” the reissue also features three additional pieces: the unreleased piano composition “Timothy Is Sleeping,” a remix of “We Move Lightly,” and a demo recording of “Opus 43,” each expanding the sonic world of the original album.

    With this release, Emmy Award winner, Lumière is revisited not only as a landmark record in O’Halloran’s catalogue, but as a deeper archive of a highly focused creative period.

    “Fragile N.1” by Dustin O’Halloran is out now on all streaming platforms.

  • Emmy Winner Van Horton Shares  Electronic Music Single “The Bottomless Pit” off his Retro Project ‘The Dark EP’

    Emmy Winner Van Horton Shares  Electronic Music Single “The Bottomless Pit” off his Retro Project ‘The Dark EP’

    American artist Van Horton has shared a new single The “ Bottomless Pit” off  single off his new project , The Dark EP.

    He took a darker and retro sounding turn on the project, resulting in four dance tracks and one featuring the vocalist Rachael Leah on ‘the other side’. 

    This is his second synthwave/house EP and he will spend most of 2026 touring North Carolina, USA.

    Van Horton won an Emmy Award in 2006 for his role as a Graphics Operator for Sunday Night Football on NBC. 

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  • Emmy Award Winner Van Horton Releases Electronic Music Single “Don’t Panic”

    Emmy Award Winner Van Horton Releases Electronic Music Single “Don’t Panic”

    American DJ Van Horton is back a new single “Don’t Panic” filled with 80s synthesizers and drum machines.

    The Synthwave artist started out as a resident DJ and Production Manager for his home state of  North Carolina’s WKNC-FM in 2003. 

    He went onto win an Emmy Award in 2006 for his role as a Graphics Operator for Sunday Night Football on NBC. 

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  • Emmy Award Winner Dustin O’Halloran Shares Piano Solo Single “Red” off his Forthcoming EP ‘The Chromatic Sessions’

    Emmy Award Winner Dustin O’Halloran Shares Piano Solo Single “Red” off his Forthcoming EP ‘The Chromatic Sessions’

    American artist and Emmy Award winner, Dustin O’Halloran has released a new single entitled “Red”

    An improvised piano piece recorded in a single take in his Reykjavík studio, it’s the second of three tracks that will form The Chromatic Sessions EP.

    “Red” is a partner piece to Gold — released in July — with a final chromatic track called “Blue” set to follow. 

    The theme of colours emerged organically during the process of writing and recording. “It wasn’t something pre-planned,” says Dustin, who has also been nominated for an Academy Award. “I was improvising on the piano every day, and I realised I was always thinking about colours as I wrote. When you have the mic set up and you’re recording, it puts you into deep focus. There’s something about that red light being on that really pulls you into the moment.”

    O’Halloran has long experienced synaesthesia — a mingling of the senses that may sound familiar to many. It can be something as simple as a taste snapping us back to a place we’ve been, a familiar scent triggering a powerful emotional flashback, or — in Dustin’s case — a certain sound evoking the feeling of a colour.

    “I believe that people are more synesthetic than they realise,” he says. “It’s something that you can tune into. All sensations are ultimately translated in the brain — and I think you can learn to connect different parts of those sensations together.”

    Such connections are a theme that runs through The Chromatic Sessions — including the connection between Dustin and his audience. All of the Chromatic singles come with downloadable sheet music when bought on Bandcamp, allowing listeners to play the music themselves. 

    It’s a gesture born of O’Halloran’s wish to forge a closer relationship with his listeners.

    “Releasing music digitally feels so distant and disconnected,” he says. “And I think we’re all looking for connection. When people get involved in playing the music, it becomes part of them in a different way. It becomes communal. It becomes theirs.”

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