Mark Wingfield "Tales From The Dreaming City"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion, Jazz, Classical
Label: MoonJune Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 13, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. The Fifth Window (5:09)
2. I Wonder How Many Miles I've Fallen (7:19)
3. The Way To Hemingford Grey (5:54)
4. Sunlight Cafe (5:57)
5. Looking Back At The Amber Lit House (6:47)
6. This Place Up Against The Sky (5:46)
7. At A Small Hour Of The Night (8:03)
8. A Wind Blows Down Turnpike Lane (4:27)
9. Ten Mile Bank (5:36)
10. The Green-Faced Timekeepers (7:52)

Total Time 62:50

Line-up: 
Mark Wingfield: guitar, soundscapes
   With
Yaron Stavi (Robert Wyatt; Phil Manzanera; David Gilmour): fretless bass guitar
Asaf Sirkis (John Abercrombie; Jeff Berlin; Nicolas Meier): drums, konakol singing (10)
Dominique Vantomme: synth soloist (3, 5, 9, 10)

Description/Reviews: 

 “I wouldn't put it in any specific category” says Wingfield. “Most of the tracks on Tales From the Dreaming City are based firmly around a central melody and chord progression. To my ears, the melodic approach has something in common with the open lyricism of a lot of ECM jazz and harmonically it's somewhere between that and classical music. There are elements of rock, and with the classical influences I guess you could say it crosses over into progressive rock. But there's also a lot of improvisation going on.” 

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Mark Wingfield with Yaron Stavi and Asaf Sirkis "Proof Of Light"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Instrumental Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Label: MoonJune Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: January 20, 2015 (digital), February 2015 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Mars Saffron. 6:10
2. Restless Mountain. 4:14
3. The Way To Etretat. 7:55
4. A Conversation We Had. 4:50
5. A Thousand Faces. 3:22
6. Voltaic. 8:37
7. Summer Night's Story. 5:40
8. Koromo's Tale. 5:16
9. Proof Of Light. 7:05

Line-up: 
Mark Wingfield: guitar
   With
Yaron Stavi (Robert Wyatt; Phil Manzanera; David Gilmour; Richard Galliano): bass
Asaf Sirkis (John Abercrombie; Larry Coryell; Gilad Atzmon; Tim Garland; Jeff Berlin; Nicolas Meier): drums

Description/Reviews: 

From the album's opening chords, it is immediately apparent that this is a very special outing. This trio possess a chemistry of the most perspicacious and unpretentious variety. The music is enticing and ethereal -- with Wingfield's articulate vocabulary and unique vision for his instrument clearly in evidence, singing high above the palatial profferings of fellow messengers, Stavi and Sirkis. This is supreme melodic "avant jazz", where any lines separating music and art vanish, as three extraordinary oracles bare their souls, follow their instincts and squeeze out every ounce of emotion and grandeur from the album's nine glistening tracks.
Throughout "Proof of Light" the listener is enveloped and transported, soaring along with the music as it seeks out new, previously-untrodden sonic destinations. Mark Wingfield has crafted an exquisite masterwork: majestic, and in many ways reminiscent of ECM's golden years! It is an album of exceeding faculty, whose strength lies in the bold, pioneering approach of its participants and their unwavering trust in their own individual and corporate intuitions. This is gloriously sensitive, nuanced trio work, with a preeminent level of musical communication that borders on the telepathic.

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Progarchives (Mark Wingfield - Kevin Kastning)
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