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On The Shore

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

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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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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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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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Mark O' Leary: Signs

Read "Signs" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Guitarist Mark O'Leary's plight is perhaps akin to one who seeks an eternal betterment of modern-improvised music, where styles and fertile ideas connect and provide nourishment for a fertile musical plane. Recorded in California with notables, bassist Steuart Leibig and drummer Alex Cline, the trio professes some down-home ruckus, while occasionally throttling back the momentum into ...

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Mark O'Leary - Cuong Vu - Tom Rainey: Waiting

Read "Waiting" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Mark O’Leary predilige la dimensione del trio, formazione con la quale ha licenziato parecchi dei suoi album. Ma se Awakening, il precedente disco per la Leo, nonostante la compagnia di due fuoriclasse come Steve Swallow e Pierre Favre, era risultato poco convincente e sfocato, questo Waiting risulta perfettamente centrato, lucidamente pensato e perfettamente eseguito. La prima ...

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Mark O' Leary / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey: Waiting

Read "Waiting" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Two venerable New York City downtown vets, trumpeter/experimentalist Cuong Vu and drummer Tom Rainey, impart their distinct musical personas upon budding Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary's latest recording, a this studio set. Vu incorporates textural components via loops and EFX, while flexing some muscle on his trumpet. O'Leary's motivation is underscored by the works of famed Irish ...

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Awakening

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bello Corazon; Last Light; First Light; In A Moment; Awakening; Kymer; Melting; MTF; Paths; Prelude.

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O'Leary/Swallow/Favre: Awakening

Read "Awakening" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Originario dell’Irlanda, trasferitosi a Los Angeles all’età di 17 anni, Mark O’Leary ha prestato i servigi della sua chitarra ad una serie impressionante di artisti e situazioni musicali differenti. Membro del Paul Bley Trio, ha composto ed eseguito musica classica, collaborato con lo specialista dell’elettronica Gunter Muller, interpretato musica tradizionale dei paesi del nord, e suonato ...


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