Composer Rafael Anton Irisarri, who recently released a remix collection featuring the likes of The Bug, Penelope Trappes, William Basinski and Abul Mogard, has unveiled details of a new album. Called Points Of Inaccessibility, the album was recorded in New York after development in improvised sessions of bowed guitar drones in former psychiatric institution the Pieter Baan Centre in Utrecht. Here, Irisarri collaborated with Dutch visual artist Jaco Schlip as he created projections for joint A/V performances. “Points Of Inaccessibility came from thinking about how disconnection feels in an age obsessed with connection,” says Irisarri, “We are constantly online, constantly visible, yet we drift further apart. The real distance isn’t geographic anymore, it’s emotional. We mistake connectivity for community. The more we share, the less we seem to feel. This album is about that strange loneliness that hides inside constant communication, a loneliness that hums quietly beneath the surface of everything.”
He added that the location of the sessions influenced the sound of the work. There, he says, “the air felt heavy with the residue of other lives. The sound carried traces of silence, as if the walls remembered things that had been forgotten. It made me aware that every frequency holds a ghost.” But Irisarri insists that that’s not to say that the album is nostalgic. Instead, “It’s about the way the present is haunted by all the futures that never arrived. We live inside systems that promise connection but deliver repetition. Everything loops, nothing resolves.”
Points Of Inaccessibility is released on 6 February 2026 via Black Knoll Editions and will be accompanied by the following tour dates:
23 January — House of Music Hungary, Budapest
1 February – LABA, Iruña-Pamplona, Spain
6 February — with Abul Mogard, St Paul’s Sessions, Amphitheater of the Athens Conservatoire, Athens
14 February — Casa Montjuïc, Barcelona
4 May — with Abul Mogard, Dig That Treasure Festival, London
