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Mark O' Leary: Signs
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 ...
Mark O'Leary - Cuong Vu - Tom Rainey: Waiting
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 ...
Mark O' Leary / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey: Waiting
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 ...
Awakening
By Mark O'Leary
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bello Corazon; Last Light; First Light; In A Moment; Awakening; Kymer; Melting; MTF;
Paths;
Prelude.
O'Leary/Swallow/Favre: Awakening
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 ...
Mark O'Leary: Awakening
by John Eyles
By turns, Mark O'Leary continues to be impressive, baffling, infuriating and intriguing. At his best, he is without parallel as a guitarist--impressively inventive and sounding unlike anyone else. Here, a track such as “First Light is a prime example; unhurried, reflective and mesmerising, full of gently bent notes, it creates its own beguiling soundworld. Likewise, the ...
Mark O'Leary: Levitation
by Paul Olson
Mark O'Leary may not be the best-known guitarist around--it's perhaps a little harder to get attention when you're based in Cork, Ireland. But what O'Leary lacks in public profile is more than made up for by his immense talent and originality. Levitation is one of four sessions recorded on his own dime over the course of ...
Chamber Trio
By Mark O'Leary
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Jaunt; Simple Simon; Rest; I am not the only one; Voice crack; St. Ives; Ligeture; Kurtis Park
Levitation
By Mark O'Leary
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Red Sand; Oblique; Mystic; Levitation; P.M.; A Theme I Used to Play; Giya; Astrakhan; Amnesiak; A Walk in the Park With; Rite; Warm; Getting There; Phase.
