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“Flashbacks” nominated for APRA Best Jazz Composition and Best Contemporary Jazz Album 2010 Bell Awards.
“Rhythmic textures woven and stretched with Passion”.
-NEW YORK TIMES
“…an absorbing and captivating work of contemporary music”
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“Flashbacks is a sure contender for this year’s “best of” lists”
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“McAll is partial to unleashing surprises himself, whether they be radical dynamic shifts – such as suddenly reducing a solo to the merest
trickle of notes against thrumming bass and whispered cymbal chatter – or just finding bewitchingly unexpected turns to take in developing
a melody. Masterful.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“Pianist Barney McAll’s imaginative compositions juxtaposed Cuban rhythmic raunch with moth’s wing delicacy”…
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“Rosenwinkel also joined the Barney McAll for a beguiling program drawn from McAll’s new album, Flashbacks. The pianist’s specially
formed septet uncovered the grooves inside these multilayered tunes with a confidence normally reserved for a working band…’
THE AGE
Keeping up with the wealth of talent around the world is a challenge, but when it’s someone as talented and distinctive as Australian pianist Barney McAll, it’s well worth the effort….
-All About Jazz
Since moving from Australia to NYC in 1997, pianist/composer Barney McAll has created an impressive resume that includes work with Gary Bartz, Billy Harper, Maceo Parker, Josh Roseman, and David Binney. It’s not surprising that Flashbacks, his fifth recording as a leader, emanates a globalist awareness with contemporary urban storytelling….
-Mark F Turner for All About Jazz
Rosenwinkel also joined the Barney McAll 7 for a beguiling program
drawn from McAll’s new album, Flashbacks. The pianist’s specially
formed septet uncovered the grooves inside these multilayered tunes
with a confidence normally reserved for a working band…’
-The Age
Flashbacks is a masterful achievement that reveals an engaging verve, and sophisticated yet earthy compositions. McAll’s lucid music exhibits an artist working at the top of his game with assurance, imagination, and an impressive combination of melodic and rhythmic aptitude.
-Audiophile Audition
McAll engineers a string of aural portraitures that do indeed, go straight to the heart, in various colors and forms.Exuberantly recommended…
-Jazz Review
This is one of those discs where you think you know what you’ll get and then something unexpected happens. A great deal of time and work went into this so I hope that some folks get a chance to hear this modest gem.
-Downtown Music Gallery
‘…Pianist Barney McAll’s imaginative compositions juxtaposed Cuban rhythmic raunch with moth’s wing delicacy. Trombonist Shannon Barnett sundered the music in one solo, her sound as big as a storm cloud. McAll’s star guitarist, Kurt Rosenwinkel, also performed alone in a cathedral, his gentle, melodic haze warming the very bricks..’.
-Sydney Morning Herald
Flashbacks (Extra Celestial Arts Records) is the fifth album by composer/pianist Barney McAll, and continues the exciting trajectory - begun with his debut, Exit - into his own distinctive sound world. Like its predecessor, Mother of Dreams and Secrets, it features both brilliant guitar innovator Kurt Rosenwinkel and some traditional sacred Afro Cuban rhythms. But the Cuban influence is fully subsumed here, and there is no way that this album could be categorized as World Music. In fact, other than 'contemporary', it is hard to place any label on McAll's music.
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Flashbacks (Extra Celestial Arts Records) is the fifth album by composer/pianist Barney McAll, and continues the exciting trajectory - begun with his debut, Exit - into his own distinctive sound world. Like its predecessor, Mother of Dreams and Secrets, it features both brilliant guitar innovator Kurt Rosenwinkel and some traditional sacred Afro Cuban rhythms. But the Cuban influence is fully subsumed here, and there is no way that this album could be categorized as World Music. In fact, other than 'contemporary', it is hard to place any label on McAll's music.
With his own music, McAll takes us on a mysterious and unpredictable journey with each album. His experience writing film scores is evident in crafting an integrated 'whole'. Rather than extended features for his own keyboard skills, McAll is foremost an alchemist, mixing various - and seemingly diverse - elements into a unified sonic landscape. The sounds range from exquisitely delicate piano to the grungy guitar of "Red and Black Shifts". He incorporates electronic sounds too, but in a very subtle way, as an added texture rather than for clever effect (such as the delicate bell chimes sounds behind the guitar in "Costello"). He also knows how to use simplicity and space and let the music breathe. McAll has collaborated with vocalists and knows how to write songs and create real melodies. "Circle Cycle" works on a relatively simple repetition until near the end, when the horn harmonies introduce a layer of slightly unnerving discord to makes it seems like the ground is shifting form under you.
Like a contemporary version of "Bitches Brew", this is a concept album which could only be realized by outstanding contemporary jazz players, yet has no jazz rhythms on it. It is also hypnotic at times, and soars too with some breathtaking solos taking things to new levels. But the language is unmistakably the music of now - just as Miles Davis would insist it should be. There are no easy labels for this music. But when you take a leader from Mooroolbark, Australia, and add Afro Cuban rhythms with NYC contemporary jazz players, how could there be?
Since permanently moving to NYC from Australia in 1997 to join Gary Bartz's quartet (working with him ever since), he has played the broadest spectrum of gigs from accompanying Gospel choirs in church to the Downtown scene of The Knitting Factory and John Zorn's club "The Stone". The Brooklyn based pianist has played with jazz heavyweights such as Jimmy Cobb (who featured on McAll's debut CD), the late Dewey Redman, and Billy Harper, as well as funk greats Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley and the JBs. His contemporary credits include Kurt Rosenwinkel's "Heartcore" group, and both Josh Roseman's "New Constellations" big band and Unit.
QUOTES ON BARNEY
Barney McAll is a musical conjurer of the highest order
-CMJ REVIEW
There was a virtual absence of familiar bop riffs, extended bop harmonies or precise bop rhythms. Instead, Rosenwinkel's pieces offered turbulent, thickly textured waves of sound, mostly produced by Barney McAll's impassioned keyboard work.
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
Barney is a special piano player with that certain heart and touch, so he has great possibilities. He's a genuine musician, not just a skilled artist. There's a certain touch that I'm talking about. It's hard to explain, but he has that"
-BILLY HARPER
Using space and simplicity, Barney McAll conjures mighty music
-KEN MICALLEF
McAll manages to intelligently integrate pop elements into his music and deserves much wider attention.
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
McAll displays an immediate feel for each pattern and the stamina to sustain them without sounding automatic. McAll also
contributed some of the most successful solos, playfully blending his parts of the arrangements with bleeding voicings and
darting accents"
-THE BOSTON GLOBE
"(McAll's) ability to craft memorable themes is matched by a feel for the atmospheric..Now established on the intensely
competitive New York jazz scene, he plays here with some of the city's leading musicians.His music is utterly contemporary,
McAll demonstrating throughout that he is a talented composer as
well as gifted keyboardist"
- ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
The revelation of the evening is pianist Barney McAll. Playing beneath the
liquid passages of (Dewey) Redman, McAll carefully kneaded clusters of notes from his hands that I found devastating. He explored ideas with a dramatic
flourish that had the audience in raptures"
-DRUM MEDIA
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released September 7, 2012
BARNEY MCALL - FLASHBACKS
1. ELEGUA DICTATE (TRAD/BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
2. FLASHBACK (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
3. END OF THINGS START OF THINGS (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
4. NEW EYES (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
5. RED AND BLACK SHIFTS (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
6. CIRCLE CYCLE (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
7. COSTELLO (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
8. TEN DAYS OF SILENCE (BARNABY MCALL MUSIC ASCAP)
All Titles (Barnaby McAll music ASCAP)
Piano , Keyboards and Chucky: Barney McAll
Guitar: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Bass: Drew Gress 2,3,4,6,7
Electric Bass: Jonathan Maron 1,5
Drums: Obed Calvaire 1-7
Drums: George Schuller 8
Bata and Percussion: Pedrito Martinez 1,3,4,5
Tenor sax: Jaycito Rodriguez 1,2,3,4,6
Trombone: Joshua Roseman 1,2,3,4,6
Alto Sax: Tiger Rex 7
Produced By Barney McAll / Extracelestial Arts
Engineer: Andrew Felluss at 58N6 Studio, Brooklyn
Mixed and Mastered by : Hiro Sanada at Crystal Elevator NYC
Love and thanks to;
Josh Roseman and Srinija Srinivasan,
Kurt, Obed, Drew, Maroner, Jay, Pedrito, Tiger, George and Matt,
McAlls All, Martin Jackson, Michael Watt, Mike Nock, Paul Grabowsky,
and especially to Jennifer, Elias and Julius whose love and patience make
Barney McAll is a Grammy nominated ARIA winning artist who has worked with luminaries such as ; Gary Bartz, Kurt
Rosenwinkel, Ben Monder, SIA, Daniel Merriweather, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesely and Dewey Redman. Barney has played on over 100 recordings and has 25 solo records....more
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Such great compositions. A showcase of world class contempory big band jazz. There is a lot happening in the orchestration, give yourself a bit of time and space to really appreciate this great album. Steve Vermeulen