Dave Band McDonnell - Time Inside a Year (CD)

One of Dave McDonnell's biggest takeaways from putting time in with dozens of outfits is a desire for his own music to be immediate and reactive, mindful of pulse and the body's innate rhythm but also cerebral. A groove-oriented framework functions as rhythmic scaffolding for his complex harmonic motifs: witness the stacked polyrhythms on the hard-driving "Bullitt" and lithe "Vox Orion," or the lively Latin feel of "Nodes of the Moon." "Brandywine" is hook-laden and swings hard, similar to the bookends of "Bakers Man," the bulk of which is dominated by explosive free-improv fireworks.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Bullitt 5:49
2. Vox Orion 6:41
3. The Contract with Bees 7:15
4. Æpse MVT 1 4:20
5. Bakers Man 5:33
6. Cyclo 6:45
7. Discovery of the Ancient Geologist 2:09
8. Æpse MVT 2 2:29
9. Brandywine 7:16
10. Nodes of the Moon 5:08
11. Æpse MVT 3 4:20