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Mark O'Leary "Ellipses" on FMR Records

Mark O'Leary "Ellipses" on FMR Records

Mark O'Leary Trio - Ellipses (FMR 254; UK) Featuring Mark O'Leary on guitar & electronics, Stale Storlokken on synth & samples and John Herndon on drums. Considering that Irish daredevil guitar wiz, Mark O'Leary's career is not yet a decade old, he has already unleashed more than a dozen discs as a leader on various labels ...

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Mark O' Leary -- Eyvind Kang -- Dylan Van Der Schyff: Zemlya

Read "Zemlya" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This newly formed trio's 2008 release is thematically based upon a frigid pair of islands off the Russian coast. In turn, the artist and his venerable improvising/progressive-jazz associates weave a musically chilling panorama via spacey backdrops and tumultuous three-way dialogues. At times, they invoke danger, as if they're warning the listener to proceed with caution.

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Mark O'Leary / Han Bennink: Television

Read "Television" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


It's a proven fact that rising guitar superhero Mark O'Leary only performs with the cr?me de la cr?me of progressive-jazz improvisers. No doubt, he's on a fast-track pace via notable recordings for Leo Records and others. This 2008 endeavor marks the Irish guitarist's inaugural outing for Sweden-based Ayler Records, and it's a download-only MP3 product that ...

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Skyshifter

Label: Creative Sources records
Released: 2007

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Flux

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2007

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On The Shore

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2007

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Waiting

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Waiting; Endgame; Lucky; Mr. Krapps Neurosis; Assumption; Estragon; Godot; Happy Days; County Roads.

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Signs

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Tilt; Falling; Skrakk; Signs; Want To Know A Secret; Bye For A While; Headphase.

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Shamanic Voices

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2007

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Mark O'Leary: Waiting

Read "Waiting" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo


Early recordings by Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary put him in the impressionistic ECM camp, but more recent recordings and gigs with Paul Bley and Milford Graves show him drifting closer towards the avant-garde. Waiting, a set of free improvs inspired by Samuel Beckett with trumpeter Cuong Vu and drummer Tom Rainey, reinforces that view.


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