Dave McDonnell Group - The Time Inside a Year (2015)

Tracklist

01. Bullitt
02. Vox Orion
03. The Contract with Bees
04. Aepse Mvt 1
05. Bakers Man
06. Cyclo
07. Discovery of the Ancient Geologist
08. Aepse Mvt 2
09. Brandywine
10. Nodes of the Moon
11. Aepse Mvt 3

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.

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