"You know the way church bells sound when they all peal together and meld into each other? That’s what Mattingly does with [Contemporaneous]. It’s looping, but not in that Glass/Reich way. There’s also a pushiness to it that’s percussive, and singing from Iarla Ó Lionáird, bringing further Celtic flavour to what’s an already Irish-sounding piece. It is fascinatingly different.”
