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Oct 26, 2006 · So Flows The Current, the new album from Patrick O'Hearn creates a rich blend of compositional textures with closer focus upon the acoustic instruments than his previous electronic oriented works.
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In 1979, O'Hearn teamed with trumpet player Mark Isham and guitarist Peter Maunu to form Group 87. They only produced two LPs— Group 87 in 1980, and A Career in Dada Processing in 1984. Isham and Maunu would appear as collaborators on several of O'Hearn's subsequent solo releases.
While living in San Francisco in the mid-'70s, he played with Frank Zappa and co-founded the visionary progressive band Group 87 with Mark Isham and Peter Maunu before joining Missing Persons. O'Hearn's solo style reflects all of these experiences within the context of a highly personal electronic sound. With the dawn of the new millennium, O ...
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- ELDORADO. This isn’t the obvious choice, but it’s an album that showed O’Hearn pushing back on expectations. So much so that it’s the release that began his exit from the Private Music label.
- ANCIENT DREAMS. Patrick O’Hearn’s 1985 album, Ancient Dreams was a road map of mood and mystery. Using percussion samples and the breathy voices of the PPG Wave synthesizer, his compositions combined the earthy darkness of African music, but with haunting melodies that hinted at places either just beyond our perceptions, or perhaps deep inside.
- INDIGO. Indigo was Patrick O’Hearn’s swan song on Private Music and may be his mostly perfectly realized album. He proves himself a master of mood on “Devil’s Lake,” which rolls ominously like an empty train at midnight or “Upon the Wings of Night,” with Mark Isham’s mournful flugelhorn cast against a wash of synthesizers, drones, and mysterious punctuations.
- SO FLOWS THE CURRENT. There was a more organic feel to So Flows the Current than in past O’Hearn albums. He said they used no MIDI or sequencing on the album and I believe it.
On various other cuts Peter Maunu lends his acoustic, electric, and lap-steel guitar playing while Robin Tolleson contributes percussion and O'Hearn plays acoustic and electric bass, keyboards, flute, cello, and percussion.
Peter Maunu: Guest Artist, Guitar, Guitar (12 String Acoustic), Guitar (Nylon String), Guitar (Steel), Lap Steel Guitar : Patrick O'Hearn
