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If I See Further Than You
Mark O'Leary
Label: TIBProd Italy
Released: 2025
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Out in front of the Dunque curve. What’s it all about Alfie? Future horizons, as a journalist termed the band after reviewing a concert. Not an acolyte nor emulator, operating on disparate meridian lines than the norm. ”Mark O’Leary, Guitar, Extraordinaire.” As elicited by Paul Bley, ”the first reason I hired you is because you don’t sound like Bill Frisell.” Being different for the sake of being different, its more akin to developing your conception and a mechanism to portray it, not easy to furrow your own hinterland, you are not on pastoral pastures where you simply connect the dots, sometimes you just must reinvent the wheel. The third adventure to New York and a project with Joey Baron on Drums/Percussion and Michael Formanek on Contra Bass. Both are now ECM stalwarts, the music suits the paradigm albeit, with tip toe through the tulips dalliances and footloose and fancy free mores, as well as deeper, more reflective minimalist moments, with arco Bass, tintinnabulation percussion and highly atmospheric, ambient guitar. Diceman excursions via George Cockcroft. A tinge of Shakespeare in concomitance to Wordsworth contemplation in pensive soothe. Punned and punctilious little titles, capturing the atmosphere of the studio, what you hear is the recording, straight from the room to release. A congenial disposition, Joey and Michael were both superlative in performing the essence of what the music and aesthetic required. The band then went on to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, giving a very well received performance in one of the worlds most esteemed venues.
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